Apple und Spotify warnen Quebec vor französischen Musik-Streaming-Kontingenten
https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial_politics/apple-spotify-quebec-french-streaming-quota
Apple und Spotify warnen Quebec vor französischen Musik-Streaming-Kontingenten
https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial_politics/apple-spotify-quebec-french-streaming-quota
5 Kommentare
A province attempting to enforce their language laws on international companies seems like a losing bet. Quebec and the rest of French Canada do indeed deserve more visibility in our culture, but American Apple and Swedish Spotify have zero reason to take on expensive changes to accommodate for that. If the solution costs more than they make from the subscribers they’ll just exit that market.
They warn us? Oh no!
The CAQ deserves to disappear from our landscape, but big companies and the Gazette, a rag that thrives on hyperbole and fearmongering, have the talent to make it easy for the party to have support for their ideas even from opponents.
If they put a percentage quota on the amount of content that’s available, all that the services will do is remove huge swathes of content so that the tiny amount left matches the quota.
We need to support francophone culture in Quebec but the amount of global content on these is just way too vast for it to make sense, this is *not* the way to do it.
The quota system works when something is being broadcast because choice is non-existent. You’re just listening to what the broadcaster chose. It does not work if you’re choosing from a library.
Edit: I’m just now thinking about the necessary “if you super duper promise you’re a historic anglophone you can have uncensored access to world content” option that would be included, lol.
I won’t let the government choose my music. Call an election, nothing makes sense in Quebec any more. My boomer Anglo parents might lose their doctor with this government.
Imposing a French interface without the possibility of modifying it and removing non-French content is a blatant example of a paternalistic/nanny state engaging in populism without any tangible benefit.
Frankly, if I want to listen to Despacito on my drive back home or set my Spotify to have an English UI, it’s *none of your damn business*. If this matters to you, it says more about you and your need to control everything than it does about me.
Spotify has Francophone music. I have lots of it in my playlist. I see more recommended on my home page since the algorithm CORRECTLY identified that I’m into it. Nothing prevents people from listening French-language content. It’s there if you want it.
Addendum: I’m seeing people invoke anti-Americanization as a reason to support this. 1. Okay, Apple is American. So what? 2. Spotify is Swedish, and this would apply to them as well. Not imitating the United States doesn’t mean imitating Saudi Arabia or China.
Being proud of Quebec culture (which is unique and worth cherishing) does not mean closing ourselves off from the rest of the world.