11mo ago

Quebec committee recommends new 'fundamental right' to access French content online

www.sasktoday.ca Quebec committee recommends new 'fundamental right' to access French content online

MONTREAL — Quebec intends to legislate to boost French content on streaming platforms as it seeks to push back against the overwhelming influence of foreign digital culture and corporations.

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Yah, I'm sure legislation will fix everything. Maybe they can set pi to 3 while they're at it.

Notwithstanding clause, sorry!

Time to boycott poutine then.

Does that mean dub or sub? The latter makes sense (since you can auto generate+translate a lot of content nowadays), former seems a good way to essentially push back any non-major streaming platform that don't have enough reach in QC to generate French dub, making it simpler to just exit the QC market - that means platforms like Crunchyroll, Funimation, Nebula, Curiosity, Viki, and probably Twitch as well (considering they just exited SK which is a much bigger region).