Found this over on Jill Golick’s Running With Eyes Closed site. It’s a great bullshit cleanser from the Writer’s Guild of Canada for the debate between the cable and broadcast companies in Canada who are arguing over who should pay for Canadians to receive local programming.
Yo - fuck heads - the airwaves are ours.
I’ve been watching the repeated showings of the self-serving ads the cable companies and the broadcasters have been running and every time they make me froth at the mouth with rage over their insolent arrogance. They need to have their heads knocked together. The CRTC needs to act on behalf of Canadian citizens and not their fat cat media cronies. Will that happen? Not likely. That’s why the CRTC should get fucked. Maybe if we all say that - really loudly - they’ll get the idea, get scared for their jobs and end up inadvertently doing the right thing.
Fuck ‘em.
Cheers.
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Rob,
They should have got you to write the PSA… much more colourful. Another good point that’s been made is that they are totally ignoring network distribution… You know, the future. They want to own that too.
Mark
Hee hee hee - I dunno if the WGC wants to be associated with some hairy bum who spouts words like “fucktard” all the time.
You’re absoutely right about the net “ownership” issue. One of the reasons the telcos and the cable operators have been lagging behind building infrastructure to keep up with the rest of the world is they’re so busy lobbying and manipulating the law to guarantee them control and ownership of the net. They don’t want to see it grow fast and get out of their hands - they’d rather strangle it in the cradle until they can ensure they will remain as the powers who control content and dominate profits.
Unfortunately for them the net is a genie that is out of the bottle and despite their best efforts (worldwide via shit like ACTA and the current spate of legislative nonsense in the UK) to contain and control this technological phenomenon they will ultimately find their efforts have only served to deprive themselves of the potential power (and profit) they could have had if they swam with the current and tides of the information flood.
The net will prevail and pass those by who merely stand in its way.
“You can’t stop the signal, Mal.”
cheers
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