Re:Tell HN: Canada Posts systems to be down for 6 hours of “...
by 908B64B197 on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:36PM
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> The government doesn't actively handle the hiring, CBC has journalistic independence from the government. They in fact handle all of their internal systems (email, data, phone) independently from the government.
But, at the end of the year, who signs the check?
> it's also hard to compete with the torrents of culture they push on us
Not sure "pushing" is the correct term. I remember when Hulu and Netflix started to disrupt the market a lot of Canadians were trying to trick those companies into serving them, with fake addresses and VPNs.
Didn't radio stations used to play "Government mandated Canadian Content" at night because listeners were just tuning out if they did it during peak hours? [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content#Regulations
The government doesn't actively handle the hiring, CBC has journalistic independence from the government. They in fact handle all of their internal systems (email, data, phone) independently from the government.
> I mean let's face it, will they really critisize and investigate the hands that signs their check?
They do all the time in fact, and they report on themselves even if it shines a negative light.
Example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/khan-cbc-canadaland-tweet-che...
> Is there a market for it? Right now this content is dumped by a single player that's subsidized. No reason to enter this space.
When the majority of the private content available is from the US, it's also hard to compete with the torrents of culture they push on us. At least CBC is actively pushing content that is culturally significant.