As another Canadian, I largely agree. I've yet to hear of a single informed person who believes in Bill C-18 - it's an example of government intending to solve a problem, but doing so in a completely ineffective and incompetent way. First, news isn't "blocked" - ISPs are not preventing traffic from going to the sources. Bill C-18 is poorly constructed and limits the incentives (and ability as a result) for the dissemination and promotion of news on certain channels. Very different. It's typical"well intentioned" government policy that was implemented in an ineffective and incompetent way. Meta and Alphabet have said for months their response would be to the bill. How is there any surprise in the current state of things? While there may be unintended consequences, they certainly were not unforseen or unpredictable - to not have a "plan B" for a (vocally) telegraphed response is equally shameful. But also very expected for the current government we have.

"the biggest factor [is] their dynamic range, or the ability of current 4K HDR TVs". You mean those HD sunglasses really worked? We're definitely going to see "HDR" sunglasses next year. https://www.walmart.com/ip/As-...

This sounds extremely similar to my experience with TurboTax in Canada. First off, to be clear I don't know the regulations here, or of any agreements with the CRA and these organizations to provide a filing service. However, many of these services including TurboTax advertise a "free" filing option. I started the process and entered lots of personal information only to then hit a step that said I needed to select a tier - free wasn't an option I could choose at that point. My options were to select a tier with a fee, or throw out my return and start over to go down to the free version. For the life of me I was unable to find a way to get through on the free option, and saw no clear reasons I wasn't being offered that anymore. At best it's deceptive marketing; at worst it's engineering an intentionally broken process.