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.

Maybe he was busy that weekend, being peed on by Russian prostitutes?

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.

I concede this is complicated, but i think we can all agree that paid lobbying groups are a cancer on society.

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

Paid corporate lobbying should end.

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

By inconvenience, I assume you mean the magnitude of their bank account and/or stock portfolio…

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

One of the comments above said they were the parent carrier offering MVNO services to Trump Mobile.

We’ve already seen how willing companies are to stand up to Trump, even if he is in the wrong.

I’m totally sure T-Mobile or the Credit Card company would be willing to defend this in court…

I suspect this is mainly because almost all of the CEOs I’ve met are workaholics, and being “at work” is the only way they can self-validate.

And remember, most of them are dark-personality traits, which explains why they cannot understand why you don’t want to go in

To do otherwise would require an act of cognitive reasoning. This Cheeto-in-charge isn’t capable of that.

I don’t know why people are surprised by this.its not his first time and we all know he’s never read a book in his life.

Not arguing that. Of the broadcasters / big media types, I find the BBC usually one of the better ones. But then I get my news from a wide variety of sources. The Intercept is generally a very good addition to my daily intake.

OK, so next it’ll be the an entrapment operation? And then maybe an assassination?

I mean, if history is our guide…

I am guessing you’ve never watched (say) Fox News in the US?

I’m not saying the BBC is good per se. I’m saying it’s slightly more objective than the rest.

Actually, the World Service will remain accessible, but that’s also not where most people go these days.