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Subject: Re: [OT] Police actively HELP Hamas supporters disrupt
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 06:17:57 -0400
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On 2025-05-29 11:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <101b6r3$3rn78$11@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Okay, thanks for clarifying that.
> 
>> Did you know that you can listen to Lilley any time on YouTube (even in
>> your car if your car or cell phone can get YouTube)? Just search on
>> Brian Lilley. I watch his videos all the time, although I don't think
>> every print article makes it into YouTube versions.
> 
> do they allow us folk in the States (don't hold it against me!?)
> to see this stuff?
> 
Seriously? Do you really believe we prevent our pundits' videos from 
being seen outside the country? ;-)

Mind you, I've never tried accessing Lilley or other commentators from 
the US so I suppose it may be geo-blocked the same as some American 
movie trailers are geo-blocked here. Why don't you give it a whirl and 
see what you get. I'd be curious to know if we geo-block outgoing 
political commentary.

> misc back story: about 15 years ago there were two films
> that the National Film Board of Canada produced, and I
> had to ask a Canadian friend of mine to shill for...
> 
> One of them was, umm, I forget the title and I can't
> find it in a quick search... anyway, it was a documentary
> of Israelis going to India to decompress/vacation after
> their military service.  I completely forget what the
> other one was...
> 

Again, I have no idea if the National Film Board geo-blocks the films 
you can see online so I want you to try this: go to 
https://www.nfb.ca/channels/exploredocs_new_releases_en/ and click on 
one of the films there. It doesn't matter which one, we're just trying 
to see if it will play for a user with an American IP address. Let me 
know what happens.

The NFB, like CBC, is taxpayer-funded so they may well take the line 
that their content should be free to Canadians but blocked from everyone 
else. Then again, they may realize that Canadians aren't always in 
Canada so they may allow their content to be visible everywhere even if 
that means there will be foreigners looking at it for free too.

The Toronto Sun, on the other hand, is a for-profit business and that's 
what would drive their decisions about geo-blocking their content.

By the way, if you ever get the chance, check out the NFB offices in 
Canada. The NFB is headquartered in Montreal and I was there on business 
once and had a bit of free time at one point so I went to the NFB 
office. I was intrigued to find that you could watch a selection of 
films right there in the office. They had special chairs with TV screens 
fixed to them and each chair had a separate feed. Each visitor could 
watch something different. It was all free. Mind you, this was 30 years 
ago and they may do things very differently now. Also, I don't know if 
their other offices are set up the same way. Still, it might be worth 
checking out if you are near one of the bigger cities.

Oh, I almost forgot, I deeply amused a Jewish friend a few years ago 
when I found an NFB film on YouTube that was an animated telling of a 
Jewish folk tale set in some past century. It was about a Jew somewhere 
in Eastern Europe - very possibly Poland - who was setting out on a long 
journey on foot. He didn't really know his way to his destination and at 
the end of the first day, he decided to go to sleep on the side of the 
road but didn't want to forget which way to go the next morning so he 
set up his shoes to point in the appropriate direction. Anyway, my 
friend knew this story very well and was impressed that it had been filmed.

Out of curiousity, I just tried a couple of YouTube searches - "NFB 
Jewish" and "NFB animated" and found all kinds of both films. Unless 
they're geo-blocked you may find the documentaries you were looking for.

-- 
Rhino