Michael Geist interviews Janet Yale (Chair of the Broadcasting/Telecom Review Panel)

https://lawbytes.castos.com/podcasts/1553/episodes/episode-38-debating-the-broadcast-panel-report-a-conversation-with-btlr-panel-chair-janet-yale

I found this to be a frustrating episode.

– I don’t understand the choice to focus on Canadians having choice at the level of an individual online media provider. Why does choice of content and discoverability of Canadian content need to be satisfied within Facebook or within Netflix instead of on the internet generally? (@ 16:45)

– What is important about the traditional business model that has sustained traditional providers until now? (@ 21:45)

– Yale doesn’t adequately address the question about whether costs will trickle down. (@ 30:00-34:00)

– It seems that the panel adopted a very constrained notion of net neutrality, taking into account only the viewpoint of a consumer. (@ 34:30)

– Yale is unable to point to evidence that there is actually a discoverability problem for Canadian content. (@ 39:00)

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