I hate the CRTC...

[Cheung Mo]

Their Canadian content regulations ensure that I can't get Mike Malloy on Sirius...I'd rather listen to an American trash the bourgeoisie than listen to a Canadian who sucks it off. We must thus conclude that the real purpose of Canadian content regulations as they are enforced today is the silencing of dissenting opinions.

[La Comédie Noire]

Canada has content regulations?

[Edgar]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 08, 2007 04:09 pm
Canada has content regulations?
Yep, we have a long history of cultural protectionist policies up here.

[Cheung Mo]

Yep...And with satellite radio, it's always the edgy, anti-establishment American programming that disappears first. So we get double-screwed: We get all the tripe that comes from South of the border, while the powers that be deem fit to keep a lot of the stuff under wraps to anybody without a broadband Internet connection and lenient bandwidth restrictions. (My new ISP is 10/640 with 60 GB cap...Enough for me most months...But the restrictions on BitTorrent suck. I was hitting over 1 MB when I downloaded the latest version of Open Office from nearby Sherbrooke earlier today...I've never surpassed 15 - 20% of that on BitTorrent...I may have to look into Secureix.)

15 hours a week of live Mike Malloy would be a good enough reason for me to get a lifetime Sirius subscription. Unfortunately, it's only offered in the US thanks to the fucking CRTC.

Our content regulations are a crock of shit. All the Canadian content in world doesn't change the fact that it is far easier to get an anti-Chavez opinion on Venezuelan TV than it is to get a pro-Chavez opinion at an NDP convention. We have a lot of spectacular homegrown content that I prefer to watch over anything in the USA or overseas; likewise, we have a lot of garbage here that I have little interest in watching. And unfortunately, nobody in Canada can do talk radio like Mike Malloy can; it has nothing to do with his location relative to an arbitrary line on a map: I feel a much stronger kinship with Mike Malloy than I do with Stephen Harper (to use a hyperbolic example) in spite of the latter being the head of state of the country in which I am a vcitizen.