I see two reasons. Most people that are “left leaning” value both critical thinking and social fairness. AI subverts both of those traits. Firstly by definition it bypasses the “figure it out” stage of learning. The second way is by ignoring long establish laws like copyright to train its models, but also its implementation which sees people lose their jobs
More formally, it’s probably one of the purest forms of capitalism. It’s essentially a slave laborer, with no rights of ability to complain that further concentrates wealth with the wealthy.
I feel for the CBC - We all know they are underfunded, but a comparison with the BBC is a little unfair. That is funded mostly by the license fee. No one in Canada will pay that on top of cable fees, but I guess that’s part of the corporate freebie to Bell/Rogers/et al.
The only beef I have with the article is that the CBC really isn’t any of these things the article cites. It’s news coverage is poor at best and it’s original programming is lacklustre. We do not need any more adaptations of Anne of Green Gables and nor do we need any more hokey Sitcoms (though I did like North of North)
As a taxpayer, I really do want CBC to succeed. I just don’t how it can in todays media landscape.
Paid is by definition anyone paid to do the lobbying. Corporate is definitely harder to define, but let’s say you’re only allowed to lobby on behalf of your own organization (or self)
And, better yet, let’s make every single lobbying effort public - Times, dates, people involved, and the subject raised (but perhaps not the outcome). Good legislation should happen in the open
I agree that North America is appalling. I grew up in Europe, so that is my main comparison.
The two new lines would be helpful, but as someone that lived in Toronto for 15 years until very recently, I believe they were horribly mismanaged. Like most of the city is…
Public transport policy in Toronto is a disaster. It is a complete disappointment of a city and an ugly blight on the landscape that serves only captialism and vapid mediocrity
Journalists aren’t to blame… There’s plenty that have written about climate threats because there’s been a lot of Science saying it is for years. It’s the Editors and Media owner that censor those stories that are (partly) to blame.
Extrapolating from there, who influences the Media Owners/Editors? Whomever gives them money - Most likely it’s advertisers, but it’s also rich assholes who buy up Media outlets to control them.
Beyond that, we can also point the finger at Government - They permit these changes of ownership and often exert their own influence.
And, if you want to go full circle, we the population choose what the watch and read, and what we believe.
In short, it’s a societal problem because at the end of the day, we’ve chosen a world where Money is key measurement of how society is doing.
I‘m sick of hearing people say this - It‘s exactly what they voted for. What I would prefer to hear them say is WHY they feel they made a mistake. What about Trumps rhetoric then is disconnected from his current deeds?
I suspect the usual reason is that it‘s impacted them personally and they didn‘t think it would. It‘s the reverse of the boy who cried wolf
Couldn’t agree more. The politicians are only outraged as their donors are pissed. They couldn’t give a shit what happens as long as they get re-elected
In my experience, they think the exact same thing is what makes some people rich, when often it‘s dumb luck. Or, more likely, rich parents.