Canada's #BillC10 is a federal regulation of Canadians' online expression, from podcasts, social media and blogs to other user-generated content.
Despite claims from the ruling Liberals that opposition to this bill is Tory partisanship, this is a UNIVERSAL issue.
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(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)
As always, @mgeist has had the best analysis of how C-10 goes well beyond the government's claims of modest and sensible rules of the road, instead empowering the CRTC to order blocks and takedowns of otherwise legal content.
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The occasion was an American Airlines earnings call in which management revealed that the company had recorded solid profits and was going to use some of them to bring pilots and flight-attendants wages up to parity with Delta and United.
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Wall Street LOST ITS SHIT. The iconic example was @Citi analyst Kevin Crissey, who whined:
"This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again."
Wall Street agreed with Crissey. AA's share price plummeted.