Interesting article by Lydia Miljan about the Canadian Media and the Government enforcing existing copyright law but there’s an obvious problem… – August 13, 2020,
If Mainstream media wants to prevent theft put up a paywall!
I’d like to begin this article writing about the CBC, which is a huge part of the Canadian media entitlement culture in Canada and is probably the main contributor to the ever-rising Leftist culture in Canada. The CBC which is a crown corporation that doesn’t have to be competitive to survive similar to other crown corporations have set the standard of what mainstream media ‘should’ aim to be like in Canada.
This occurs because both online and offline the CBC with it’s taxpayer-funded resources don’t have to worry about enforcing copyright to survive. I think the CBC might want to join in on the fight to enforce copyright, but what do they care, there are no consequences for their actions and therefore, no matter what other mainstream media outlets do, the CBC has the upper hand.
Now, the real truth of the matter in my opinion when it comes to the decline of the mainstream media in Canada is that they’re all terrified of putting up a paywall or begging for donations. If Canada’s mainstream media had to resort to doing what “TheRebel.media” does, which is actually meeting the demands of their consumer, Canadian media would be at the very least forced to go center-right.
Because that’s what Canada is, we’re a center-right nation. In our younger years we all able in Leftist political thought, but eventually as we age, we remember that we old people are not only paying the bills but we’re also responsible for the success of our future generations.
Now, via the mainstream media and teachers’ unions, Canadians have been lulled to sleep believing that the government knows best, but the government only knows best only when you don’t feel like your money isn’t being stolen from you directly.
When Trudeau announces he’s bailing out the mainstream media, the money used to pay for the bailout will be paid for by our children and grandchildren.
Now if the media bailout happened and when every Canadian went outside to buy something, there was a mainstream media tax on their receipt, things would be a lot different.
Canada no longer has Classical Liberals dominating the mainstream media, Liberals are now called Leftists in Canada. It’s not even worth debating the bias in Canada’s mainstream media, with the exception of the Financial Post, and at times the National Post, you can read and listen to the mainstream media bias towards their favored Leftist politicians.
In fact, when Lydia Miljan writes “For believers in limited government and a market-based economy, it’s more important than ever to be vigilant against statists.”
in her article you can read below, it’s unlikely that the average Canadian even understands the Conservative contribution to the debate, because Leftist, for the most part, aren’t readers, they’re enforcers.
Leftism is destroyed when there’s a level playing field in which they have to make and prove their arguments in the real world. Now, a Leftist might make their case for Marxism, but the problem occurs when they’re challenged, which is why they go after freedom of speech and property rights.
Leftists want slaves, in their Leftist minds, they don’t imagine that they’re wanting slavery, but what the left wants is to not do the hard, tedious work necessary to maintain a nation. The Left wants easy answers and easy solutions and politicians sell leftists on easy answers and easy solutions, Conservatives talk too much, we want the theory to be put into practice and we do comparative studies and nit-pick everything economic.
Even Karl Marx acknowledges the important role of capitalists in society in order to generate wealth for the POOR, but Karl’s end goal was for the government to eventually confiscate property, take over the means of production and turn individuals into the property of the government. How you fight back against this is to donate your time to saving your country.
The Leftist media can’t compete, even in America Fox News continues to dominate CNN. The reason this happens is that CNN unlike the CBC has to compete. Furthermore, Leftists, unlike Classical Liberals, usually aren’t readers, Leftists don’t like their world view challenged with facts. When Conservatives get into a debate, we voluntarily humble ourselves not to come across as mean and inhumane.
I do it, but it’s rare you’ll read that a Conservative during a debate, calling their opposition racist, but we could, Conservatives could play dirty politics. Donald Trump isn’t a Conservative, Trumps a populist, but for Conservatives, he’s a breath of fresh air, because for most of us Conservatives we don’t know how to articulate ourselves to the Leftist mob, in a manner that will open themselves up to having their ideas challenged.
What would change Leftists in Canada is ending the welfare state, which would mean defunding the CBC if Leftist had to pay to read and confirm their biases and that expense came out of their pockets directly as opposed to the taxpayers financing it, Canadians would do their own debating in their own minds about issues important to them.
Also, it’s very embarrassing when in a social setting your ideas are challenged and you can’t use safe spaces or the government to silence your opposition. Now that it’s becoming accepted that words hurt, Canadians are volunteering to give up their freedom of speech to the appease the Leftists. This happened, primarily because of the Leftist media, that Canadians are forced to finance.
If media wasn’t free, Canadians would start asking themselves, why am I paying a news media outlet to tell me I’m racist or that I hate Women, Muslims, Blacks, or Transgenders? Imagine Canadians had to actually pay money out of their pockets to consume Leftist dogma.
To be fair cable news was a paywall, but cable news isn’t what it used to be, the Internet provides consumers options and by Lydia Miljan asking for the government to do more, she’s asking for the government to limit options because there’s a leftist trade-off that would occur if what Lydia Miljan is requesting becomes a new normal, which could be Internet censorship.
Now, I don’t think the Canadian government wants to go down this path, not yet anyway because even the Chinese people who are brainwashed via the Chinese Communist Party from birth find a way around internet censorship and in Canada, if censorship because of copyright were to happen, it would really tie up the courts and create a lot of hostility, when in reality all the mainstream media has to do is PUT UP PAYWALL.
I personally can’t access blacklocks.ca without paying, now, why would anyone want to pay for blacklocks.ca? Well, it’s because they offer an IN-DEMAND service, Canada’s mainstream media doesn’t offer an in-demand service, for the most part, they’re offering junk news.
Even when I had cable, I wouldn’t watch the news, as a man the only time I’d watch cable TV was for sports and real debates, I’d even prefer to pay to watch a movie I like over watching it on television because I hated commercials. Quality people typically want quality services and what the mainstream media in Canada wants to do is force all Canadians to pay for something they don’t want.
The mainstream media, in my opinion, is dependent on the government, and the Leftist governments are dependent on the mainstream media. If CBC was the lone wolf that existed to brainwash Canadians, all of sudden, Leftists are in trouble, because if you look at CBC on Youtube and in social media in general, Canadians don’t watch it.
Now, what’s equally concerning is that Canada’s private media also has a horrible record with Canadians. Canadians only seem to tune into mainstream media when there’s a scandal or disaster. The reason Canadians don’t watch mainstream media news because it’s junk news, there are no real debates. Why would I watch anything if I already knew what the answer or the end result was going to be?
Nice article, but I personally think Canada’s mainstream media is in trouble because they’re too scared to put up a paywall! You can only put up a paywall if you’re offering an in-demand service. Canada’s media wants to control the narrative and they can’t do that anymore because consumers have more options. In a free-market economy, the rich and powerful are just as vulnerable as the rest of us. That’s why freedom generates wealth!
Lydia Miljan: Don’t subsidize journalism, enforce copyright | financialpost.com
Interesting times ahead