sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoCRTC to require online streamers to pay 15% of annual revenues to support Canadian contentnationalpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up178arrow-down12
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkCRTC to require online streamers to pay 15% of annual revenues to support Canadian contentnationalpost.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareAstralPath@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·15 hours agoI hate being so pessimistic that I agree wholeheartedly with this. This needs to happen but I don’t have faith in the CRTC to do the right thing with the money.
minus-squareben@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoThere was a picture a few years back with the chair of the CRTC out for beers with the CEO of Bell - there’s just no chance in hell this money is going to actual people without getting really heavily skimmed by those execs.
I hate being so pessimistic that I agree wholeheartedly with this.
This needs to happen but I don’t have faith in the CRTC to do the right thing with the money.
There was a picture a few years back with the chair of the CRTC out for beers with the CEO of Bell - there’s just no chance in hell this money is going to actual people without getting really heavily skimmed by those execs.