Government proposes 30% local content quota for streaming services

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Stop enforcing your k@k on us. Your production and content is k@k hence the mess the sabc is in. Your dicktorial stance is communism at its best so just fvck off.

Oh and Steve Hoffmeyer is also local but that's another story.............

Steve, is dit die ou, met n pomp in elke dorp.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

SA netflix, prime etc are already small catalogues compared to international... making 30% SA mean they'd have to shrink it even more... oh well, back to collecting linux distros

Always an option, so is a filter that just removes local content from the available options.

 

[Gravedigger]

No, tsek. You have bigger problems to deal with than to "force" streaming platforms to bring 30% local content to those platforms.

 

[FaSMaN]

Once again, I will have to ask how on earth are they going to do that on Youtube with a global audience of creators producing content, you simply cant increase a specific kind of content, hell the local people dont even want to watch local content creators just look at my analytics below, most of the people watching my content is from the USA and UK, no surprises there:

 

[shearder]

I dont want to watch local crap. This so they can extort more money. I'd rather pay for a vpn service and bypass local crap

 

[Iwojima]

Blood sucking, commie thieves.

 

[Corelli]

Honestly. Where will they find the money. They tax the industry to death its not like the Koreans where 4% of their GDP goes for this.

Our country is tipping over the fiscal cliff. Our debt payments and money for social services together now is more than what we get in from taxes. Since debt payments cant be covered we have to cut our SaSSA grants.

Netflix will withdraw. And how do you tell Youtube what they must play. Its a real joke.

 

[system32]

Don't see how you going to force international companies like Youtube and Netflix to meet a 30% ZA quota.
Never going to happen.

 

[Corelli]

Im not paying my tv license due to the local crap and all the reruns of really old shows.

When you can bring us proper shows and not copies of others then we can talk. Spend more moneu in your film industry and set up proper svhools for kids to learn to be actors and actresses. You know there is practically only 1 or 2 basic ones in the country. My kids gets flown abroad for their tv and film shoots. And then all acting classes are online from Koreans ad Americans.

 

[system32]

At least we're not the only ones.

The EU is giving Netflix and Amazon two years to make 30% of their catalogs European

The EU is bossing around some of America's biggest companies.

qz.com

Does not add up:
30% ZA + 30% EU + 30% US + 30% OZ + 30 % NZ + 30% Korean + 30% Brazil = 210%

And EU big and ZA small.

 

[pinball wizard]

How will that work on a smart TV, on which majority watch Netflix etc.

You mean you don't run the vpn on the router like a normal person?

 

[system32]

Government proposes 30% local content quota for streaming services

The government plans to enforce a 30% local content quota for Internet streaming services in South Africa to promote local content and languages.

Responding to written parliamentary questions from DA Deputy Chief Whip Michael Waters, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams confirmed this local content requirement and explained the reasons behind it.

Where's Pornub - it's a streaming service?

 

[Etienne Steyn]

Government proposes 30% local content quota for streaming services

The government plans to enforce a 30% local content quota for Internet streaming services in South Africa to promote local content and languages.

Responding to written parliamentary questions from DA Deputy Chief Whip Michael Waters, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams confirmed this local content requirement and explained the reasons behind it.

There are already 4 providers "ramming" local crap down everyone's throats. People are going over to providers like Netflix to get away from this. Now they want to force more rubbish down a person's throat. We are paying for a service we want, not to be forced to have crap on our tv's. LEAVE NETFLIX ALONE!! Wanting to place **** on there that the majority does not understand the language, the acting is below inferior and the storylines are so bad that it seems a grade 3 pupil wrote it.

 

[heartbroken]

Do not want. I fkn hate local content

 

[requiem]

I have a fairly easy solution for Netflix that can make them comply.

Put parliamentary TV up, and break every 10 seconds up into a single episode.

That should cover the required numbers.

 

[GhostSixFour]

Where's Pornub - it's a streaming service?

Read the thread, we already had afrikaans porn jokes.

 

[cr@zydude]

I am fully on board with this, IF, and only if government employee's are legislated to use local content So, no more imported BMW's or iPhones for them, no more imported whisky or wine, no more private hospitals, no more private schools, etc, etc. You want to force us to watch the local **** produced under your 'leadership', you can use the local **** produced under your 'leadership'.

So only X3s then?

 

[pinball wizard]

Where's Pornub - it's a streaming service?

Nevermind that, are they forcing this garbage on Youtube?

 

[Drake2007]

It will cost more to implement than whatever income may be generated from this farce.
ANC stop agitating everyone with your stupid ideas, you're going to poke that sleeping bear once too often.

 

[Neuk_]

So only X3s then?

I thought only 3 Series were made locally by BMW?