Canadian Federal Politics Thread v5

[Ped]

Originally Posted by timun

The only difference between "government-funded media" and "publicly-funded media" is "varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content". As the government has no involvement with the CBC's editorial content , by Twitter's own definitions it is "publicly-funded" not "government-funded".

To be fair though, you cut out the "may have" part. "May have is certainly different than "will have" or "does have," and to me, says that government control is not necessary to be considered government-funded.

Is there really an argument that the CBS is not government-funded. Yes, there are bias implications that Elon and twitter are banking on by doing this, but the CBS is funded by the government. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, but it is a fact.

[Weitz]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1648135878454177794

[Fuzz]

Maturity to the moon.

[GullFoss]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1648135878454177794

lmao Im dying bro

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I'm glad CBC has paused their activity on twitter, in fact I would like to see more media outlets just leave altogether. It's pretty obvious Elon is running what was once a decent platform straight into the ground, throwing in immature and unserious tweets and comments along the way. Let's be honest, it's become a joke. If the platform is being run by a 9 year old trapped in a man's body I don't see the harm in leaving at all. Good for them.

[neo45]

Officially the first funny thing Elon has done

[belsarius]

Originally Posted by neo45

Because it’s a joke that the foundation being audited gets to suggest the auditor?



Why is the target of an investigation suggesting the investigator?

It’s the AG of Canada… not some random audit firm….

[neo45]

Originally Posted by belsarius

It’s the AG of Canada… not some random audit firm….

Take a wild guess who appointed her


Not conflict of interest here lol

[Ozy_Flame]

PP now simping for Elon on Twitter tonight too.

The irony in a government-funded career politician using a billionaire who hates governments to mock government-funded programs and thinking he's playing 4D chess is incredible.

[belsarius]

Originally Posted by neo45

Take a wild guess who appointed her


Not conflict of interest here lol

You can’t be serious with this?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by belsarius

You can’t be serious with this?

He assumed something that was too complicated for him to read must have been a slick sleight of hand crop job and just laughed at a 69 joke.

I’m going to guess he’s completely serious with this.

[neo45]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

He assumed something that was too complicated for him to read must have been a slick sleight of hand crop job and just laughed at a 69 joke.

I’m going to guess he’s completely serious with this.

69 is the sex number if you didn’t get it


And yea, doing that is funnier than anything CBC has made recently for sure

[GGG]

Originally Posted by neo45

I don’t put much stock into slippery slope arguments but the clear defining line here is that one is publicly funded by the government and one is privately funded, so expecting equal levels of transparency of their financial statements doesn’t make any sense to me.

This wasn’t a slippery slope argument it was a question of if you are concerned where your media comes from you should be quite concerned what private dollars back these money losing newspaper operations.

Why does a guy like Musk by twitter, or Bezos the post, or the Thomson’s the globe and mail. Why is there a long history of rich families owning media? They certainly don’t have the same level of transparency that the CBC does in its editorial decisions. So if one believes it’s important to know that the CBC is government funded (a point which is rather obvious) we should also want to know the business and personal interests of the owners of media companies and how the politics and world events they cover will hurt or benefit their bottom lines. One might think this is a far greater risk then telling people the CBC is government funded.

So if knowing where your media comes from important to you, if so this labeling is woefully inept.

All I see is a whole bunch of people who weren’t concerned about this yesterday.

Also it appears from your statement you are not aware that the government subsidizes qualified journalistic organizations in Canada and subsidized their news room. So the Globe and Mail and National Post are government funded by twitters definition. The government also offers tax breaks to their subscribers.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by neo45

69 is the sex number if you didn’t get it


And yea, doing that is funnier than anything CBC has made recently for sure

Oh damn bro, you know the SEX number? Lucky!

The CBC is still playing reruns of Mr.D. Don’t lie and tell me that’s not right up your alley.

[neo45]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Oh damn bro, you know the SEX number? Lucky!

The CBC is still playing reruns of Mr.D. Don’t lie and tell me that’s not right up your alley.

Let’s be honest here, it doesn’t matter what they are playing, absolutely no one is watching

[flames_fan_down_under]

I watch the CBC. Regularly.

[Roughneck]

Would have been funnier if it was 69.420%

Because then it's the sex number and the weed number. Get it?

But maybe Elon is a stickler for the sig figs.

[iggy_oi]

Don’t Musk’s businesses get more funding from governments than the CBC? Seems odd that his tweets don’t have the same disclaimer

[PepsiFree]

Conservatives obsess about how much the CBC costs and everything it does but refuse to watch it or consume it in any way and get their money’s worth because they’re afraid of the coded Liberal socialist indoctrination buried in the Great Canadian Baking Show.

Sure, it’s “Bread Week,” but what it really is is a covert Liberal manipulation doorway to accepting communist bread lines. DEFUND THE CBC.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Don’t Musk’s businesses get more funding from governments than the CBC? Seems odd that his tweets don’t have the same disclaimer

Lol too true, this article is back from 2015:

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-...531-story.html

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies

Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups.

He’s a hypocritical man child.