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(Belgium, Brussels) médiathéque (media at public libraries) to be discontinued. Media will be wholly privatised. (fedia.io)
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Media access will be dropped from public libraries. Some politician decided that everyone has Internet with streaming subscriptions.

Or they figured it’s okay to marginalise those who do not. They assumed no one has a problem with patronising shitty surveillance capitalists like Netflix and Amazon.

IIUC, the only possible ways to watch movies in Belgium without feeding corporate databases is:

  • buying CDs/DVDs with cash
  • theaters (cash paid tickets)
  • the high seas (☠)
  • broadcast TV (does that exist in Brussels? My hand-held dvb-t player finds no signals to tune)

Only two of those options serves the poor. One is illegal and the other is content-constrained. And still out of reach for anyone who can’t afford Internet at home.

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