So I’m happily reading along with my favourite political/news website and I come across a link to an SNL skit about President Obama. (Yep, I still love writing that out.) I click on it and I’m taken to the NBC website where I’m informed that due to my location outside the United States I cannot view the content. So I head over to Google, type in SNL, Barack Obama, 2000s and a number of links pop up inviting me to watch the skit there. Again and again I am informed that due to my location outside the United States I cannot view the content.
Now, it is surely overwrought hyperbole on my part to claim that I’m living in China or under any other repressive regime because I am prohibited from viewing certain frivolous content. In fact an argument could be made that it’s all to the good that I’m unable to watch what will inevitably be another piece of amazingly unfunny business from SNL as it has been for, oh I don’t know, the last 20 years. Still, there is a creepy sensation about access being denied on arbitrarily geographic grounds.
But like a dutiful Canadian citizen, I find my way over to the network website that carries SNL up here, Canwest Global, to view the clip that I started searching for 5 or 10 minutes earlier. Of course, it’s nowhere to be found or at least not easily. A search on the website reveals nothing, so if I really want to find it, it would just be by some random happenstance.
Canwest Global cannot go tits-up soon enough for my liking. They and other private broadcasters are protected by government intervention like no other entity in the business and still they whine and bitch about intrusive regulations, blah, blah, blah. Die Canwest Global, die! I live for the day when the Asper family is out on their cans, having driven their family inheritance into the ground through unbridled greed, ego and a complete and utter inability to understand the changes the media industry is undergoing. Let them try and figure out if they qualify for EI benefits that are tied to regional unemployment rates. What is it these days in Winnipeg anyway?
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