Canadians want to block US access to Pornhub, the most visited adult content site in the US, which contributes 40% of traffic. But there are those who see more and better for Canada.
With the environment of cutting the knife with the United States, Canada has a powerful weapon in its hands to take to the trade war with the neighbor: a website pornography.
“Pornographic champion” in the US – has 3 million visits per month – and present at the top 30 of the most visited websites, the Pornhubcontent platform for adults based in Montreal, could be prohibited for US citizens, suggested Canadian comedian Matthew Puzhitsky, no.
The reality is that Pornhub has already restricted access in 17 US states due to new laws that require identity verification to view adult content. Since the comedian’s video-which has already earned him parts in and in-has been published, one has come to block US access to the pornographic site.
“If you get me the porn, I leave the USA“A New York told the post.
Of course the comedian’s idea was just a satire, but although it seems unreasonable, it could result, on a larger scale.
With the imposition of reciprocal tariffs by the United States, on April 2, economic relations between the two nations became increasingly tense. In response, Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford had initially proposed a 25% surcharge on US electricity exports before suspending the measure.
What if, instead of imposing retaliation tariffs, Canada stops applying intellectual property protections from US technological companies?
This is the suggestion of the Canadian science fiction writer and technology journalist Cory Doctorow, no. “What prevents Canada from taking advantage of their industrial policy to break the high profit margins of American monopolists?”questioned a month ago.
According to Doctorow, US companies exploit monopolistic practices to charge high fees – Amazon, Apple and Google, for example, charge a 30% Commission about transactions in application stores. Similarly, companies like John Deere and Tesla block software features behind Paywalls, forcing customers to continually pay for access.
Canada, defends the author, could create your own application storewith lower commission rates for software breeders, allowing device owners around the world to get around US technological policies restrictive.
In addition, suggests the same author, the country could manufacture devices and software that allow users to unlock American tractors and cars – giving farmers and drivers the ability to unlock functionality without recurring payments to companies such as John Deela and Tesla.
“Canadian application stores could offer five percent commissions on US and worldwide software authors and provide unlocking kits that would allow owners of devices around the world to install Canadian application stores, where software authors are not stolen by large American technology companies,” he explains in the article.
