It still isn't at distributors yet. My distributor has it listed for Oct 27, with units shipping the day after from the warehouse to resellers/etc.

"Not available in your region" bloody hell.

Why not have it switch tabs automatically?

Could use nearby/changing bluetooth devices as a measure of how crowded/busy a place is. A place with a low number of strong signals could recharge the battery if you stayed there for a minimum amount of time.

Turn yourself into the Tamogotchi

My fear isn't indirect censorship, it is that companies will rather pull out of the Canadian market than pay to have content developed, acquired or managed to meet the CanCon rules. Canada's current spat with Google over news is a recent example.

Totally okay with that. I would rather follow independent Canadian media that doesn't qualify as CanCon anyways. Canadian media regulation only benefit existing large media institutions.

> Canada's current spat with Google over news is a recent example.

That was particularly hilarious.

The problem is that if a Canadian wishes to make a podcast the biggest platforms may be closed to them because of onerous regulation they've opted out of.

That's bad.

That’s not how it works. Applying for CanCon status confers certain tax and subsidy incentives. You can forgo the onerous application process and operate as a normal business.

You need a specialist to understand and fill out forms and applications that many businesses just don't have. For a one or two man podcast that's not going to be a thing.

And given this newest revision is talking about Canadian values you might be regulated on the content of your show with that one or two man team to deal with the show and any issues.

It's great for large businesses but not small. It's going to be great for cbx and global who can hire someone whose whole job is dealing with regulatory burdens and applying for grants. but Joe entertainer doing his podcast on YouTube is going to have a tough time dealing with the regulations.

You never know, you might see a local platform popup that specialises in Canadian content.

They are referring to the CanCon rules https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon.htm

The rules have been around for 40+ years in one form or another.

A lot of the links on that page don't work, but I infer that it only applies to radio and TV, and it's not going to apply to podcasts just yet (perhaps in the future). Still, not much concrete info.

It will indeed apply to online services and affect their recommendation algorithms.

Do you have a reference for that?

"for certain children who are inmates of one of its schools for the mentally defective deaf."

Wow, that is a loaded statement that certainly has not aged well.

It’s just a couple steps behind on the euphemism treadmill, is all.

Plus “inmates” has narrowed in meaning a bit, so that reads harsher than it was probably intended. That doesn’t help.

Inmates describes most public school children pretty well though. You got your locked doors, your tall fences, your armed guards, and a limited time to spend in the yard…err playground.

It is true by literal definition - you are confined to that space.