The legislation talks in effect about market power and the benefit to the carrier itself. Without monetization, there wouldn’t be an issue.
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From the Relaunch novelverse:
David Mack - Destiny trilogy, Cold Equations trilogy
Una McCormack - The Neverending Sacrifice
Also the 23rd century Vanguard and Seeker series by Mack, Ward and Dilmore.
Earlier books
DC Fontana - Vulcan’s Glory
Diane Duane and Vonda McIntyre’s books.
Or Parliament may pass further legislation on accelerated calendar that will require Meta to carry links in declared emergencies much as cable companies and private broadcasters are now.
Perhaps we’d do better to look at the text of Bill C-18.
You seem to be saying that the law itself has already laid out that Meta is who it applies to.
Instead, it says that a list needs to be established.
List of digital news intermediaries 8 (1) The Commission must maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which this Act applies. The list must set out each intermediary’s operator and contact information for that operator and specify whether an order made under subsection 11(1) or 12(1) applies in relation to the intermediary.
Meta clearly sees that the law is intended to apply to digital platforms with significant market power such as it has. But it has not yet been designated.
Timing - coming into force - you are correct that there is a hard deadline at end of year.
180 days after royal assent (6) Despite subsections (1) to (5), any provision of this Act that does not come into force by order before the 180th day following the day on which this Act receives royal assent comes into force 180 days after the day on which this Act receives royal assent.
Basically, you are justifying Meta’s actions on the basis that it recognizes that a law it doesn’t like will apply to it in future.
The tax and the legislation is at least a half a year from coming into force, the regulatory framework to operationalize it hasn’t even been published for public consultation.
Meta has started blocking preemptively. This is a power play protest about avoiding being subject to other countries’ law. That’s it.
Glad to hear you’re giving it all a genuine try.
Most of it is no less great on average than 90s Trek. Just different.
It’s unfortunate many longtime fans weren’t willing to give it a chance to find its groove, much the same as the TOS fans resisted giving TNG a chance.
TNG’ first season and much of the second were rough, but it was a personal risk to stand up at a Star Trek Con in 1989 and say you were a TNG fan. By 1993, when DS9 was running too, everyone at cons were TNG fans too.
As a long haul fan who saw this happen then, I’ve found it sad to see Trek fandom repeating the cycle.
Once again, THE LEGISLATION HAS NOT YET COME INTO FORCE.
Yelling is rude, but the repeated questions that seem to ignore that Meta’s blocking of links is preemptive is beginning to have the feel of sealioning.
Meta is not at risk of any tax if they unblock links during this emergency.
Lemmy is neither large enough nor monetizing our views so it’s outside the scope of the legislation and the new regulations that will need to be written, formally consulted through the Canada Gazette process and then approved by Cabinet. Basically, what Lemmy’s doing is still fair use by a carrier.
As I understand it, the Canadian legislation is different than the Australian one in that the Australian version would just have had a minister name which companies would be subject to the tax.
Canada, having been in trade disputes with the US over ministerial designation processes that can be argued to lack transparency, went a different route that would make the tax come into effect for large platforms, monetizing content without paying the sources/creators.
Your reaction to Prodigy seems to be very common. Spread the word!
It’s unfortunate that many franchise fans let themselves be put off by the kids/family branding, animation or the fact that it starts out in a place and situation that feels more like another franchise in order to draw new audiences in.
That does mean though that it has room to grow. Prospective buyers are taking note of the numbers of new viewers even since it was pulled from Paramount+.
On one hand this interview gives a strong signal that the fans need to keep pressing with the advocacy to support getting Prodigy back on a streamer, but on the other it keeps teasing more and more that will pull in a broader range of adult fans.
Another visit to DS9? So many fans would campaign just for that alone.
And there’s other legacy Star Trek shows with very prominent space stations we like to visit.
No clue why, but it’s what the government is saying in its tweets.
Mack’s Star Trek tie-in books are on my autobuy list, so I’ve preordered, but this one will be his first hardcover.
If you get books from your public library and they accept requests for new books to bring in, this would be a suitable one.