Bill would give CRTC power over user-generated content

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    Bill would give CRTC power over user-generated content, but it won’t use it: chair

    The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says a federal bill would give it power to regulate user-generated content, such as homemade videos posted on YouTube.

    The power to censor and control what one can put online.

    But Ian Scott predicted at a House of Commons committee that this would never happen as the broadcast regulator has no interest in overseeing content produced by individuals.

    YET!  And if the libtards and Trudeau have their way, any bad press/news about them will be censored/suppressed/etc.

    Bill C-11, now going through Parliament, would update Canada’s Broadcasting Act and give the CRTC power to regulate online platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify and TikTok, along with traditional broadcasters.

    So information they don’t like, they will label as “misinformation” or “fake”, etc. so it will be taken down.

    Scott Benzie, executive director of Digital First Canada, said the CRTC chair confirmed what digital-first creators have been saying since the bill was published. They have warned it could give the regulator power over their work, including posts by comedians, animators and gamers on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitch.

    Benzie accused the federal government of being misleading by claiming the bill would not capture user-generated content.

    Typical.  This is exactly what the libtards/Trudeau will do.

    “There should be a higher degree of trust in relation to the commission’s future actions,” he told the committee, explaining that in 50 years of broadcast regulation the CRTC had “never interfered with individual content.”

    WTF?  from claims certain “acts” are not “Canadian” enough, etc.  To forcing broadcasters like the CBC to create inferior products just to fill the quota the CRTC mandates!

    Scott’s five-year tenure as chair ends in September and the federal government is already accepting applications for his job, with a salary of up to $328,000 a year. The job advertisement seeks experience in digital media, broadcast or telecommunications.

    OH, so even thought the outgoing chair says he wont, his replace sure can-WILL.

    This is word-garbage from the current chair.

    The CRTC has faced criticism that it might lack the expertise to regulate the digital sphere, a claim that Scott, when asked about it at the committee, vehemently disputed.

    They have enough leftoids that they can easily remove ALL non-leftist/agenda posts, comments, vids, etc.

    Just think of y-tube, fb, twatter, etc. on government steroids!

    The regulator said in a statement after Scott’s appearance that “as it’s drafted at the moment, the bill draws a distinction between the users of social media and the platforms themselves. It’s clear to the CRTC that the bill’s intent is to exclude individual users from regulation.”

    The CRTC added that “the content itself can be the subject of some regulatory oversight, but only in certain limited circumstances,” such as if it generates revenues, is available on other platforms such as television and is categorized by a unique, internationally assigned identifier.

    So, if your channel on y-tube is monetized, get superchats, etc. (generate revenue), you DO fall under the CRTC’s control.

    Other platforms?  like if you post the same vids on other video sharing platforms…

    Jeanette Patell of YouTube Canada said in a statement: “We’ve heard from the government that they don’t intend to regulate user-generated content (UGC), but the Chair of the CRTC has confirmed that UGC still remains in the bill text.”

    “Our simple ask is that they resolve this inconsistency and include specific language in the bill to exclude UGC from CRTC regulation, to protect thousands of Canadian creators who earn a living on digital platforms.”

    It is not an “inconsistency”, but a deliberate attempt to control the population by controlling what they can/can’t do.

     

    #268714
    Vknid
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      Canada wants to directly control the internet so bad it can taste it.  Of course that’s pretty much the same across the west for the most part.

      #268741

      It is not Canada, per say, but the LEFTOIDS.

      Their need to CONTROL, CONTROL, CONTROL is a mental illness, IMO.

      They need to PUSH an AGENDA most of the population is against goes against logic, facts, science.

      The legacy media is already a leftist propaganda machine.  But online content is not yet under their direct control.

      #268842
      Vknid
      Moderator

        As mentioned in another thread, they have to lie and censor anything to the contrary to fool folks into doing things that hurt them.

        #269042
        DarthVengeant
        Premium

          Control control control. That’s all corporations and government want anymore. God forbid humans have freedom and live life to it’s fullest without scumbags setting up in offices dictating what we can and can’t do continually.

          #272826

          In typical tyrannical libtard fashion…

          Trudeau Liberals ram through online censorship bill — and only the Senate can save us now

          It was shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning that the Trudeau Liberals hastily wrapped up the committee process on their controversial Bill C-11. Normally, such a bill would receive much more time to be debated but the federal government wanted no such thing. So just like that, while Canadians were sleeping, the government rammed through a bill that will see Canadians’ social media subject to government censorship.

          The left LOVES to censor people and opinions they dislike… like the truth!

          Despite the over 150 amendments proposed and despite protestations from leading experts on the issue, the bill was passed through Committee to return to the House of Commons where it will almost definitely be approved by the Trudeau Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s New Lapdog Party.

          tis sad.

          …the part of the bill that has caused the greatest alarm is the section that would give the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a government agency, the ability to regulate and censor what they call user-generated content (your posts!).

          And they made sure that part stayed in the bill.

          The Liberals and CRTC have gone out of their way to say they don’t intend to act on these new powers. That’s nice, experts respond, but then why don’t you just take out the offending provisions then?

          Just like the Emergency Act Trudeau used to crush free speech and freedom to protest, they will most definitely be invoking those powers, sooner than later.

          We already know the Liberals are obsessed, absolutely obsessed, with the idea of regulating social media. Take, for example, then Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s claims last year that public servants need to be shielded from online scrutiny or how the government wants to create an Orwellian-named Digital Safety Commissioner, who would be granted the discretion to block websites.

          Especially when an election is around the corner, they can’t let things like facts, truths, policies, etc. to get out to the public.  And speaking on it.. a big libtard no no.

          “This sham process notably excluded debate on many of the proposed amendments on regulating user content … The debate was cut short by the 9:00 deadline, where the chair moved directly to voting on amendments and the Liberals, NDP and Bloc all voted against. The effect was that despite numerous witnesses, including creators, platforms, and experts raising concerns about the implications of the bill on their creativity and expression, the government literally cut off debate on many of the proposals to address their concerns.”

          Big Brother knows what is good for us.  F the experts and the platforms and the people/users this darwinian bill will cause.

           

          #272909

          What do you expect? Canada is a fascist country. They may as well replace the maple leaf with the swastika at this point

          #272914

          But did you not know, to the libtards national popularism is bad – communism is good.

          Free thought, free assemble is NOT permissible when it goes against the elites agenda.

          I can see the bastard offspring of Castro to have a hammer/sickle instead of a maple leaf.

          And their lapdogs (the socialist/communists) party to also be all for it.

           

          #307534

          CRTC registration for podcasts and streaming companies draws criticism

          News that online streamers and podcasters will soon be required to register with Canada’s broadcasting regulator is raising confusion and concerns that heavier regulation may be coming.

          Ignorance of the “law” is no excuse (I can hear them saying).

          Late Friday afternoon, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced that online streaming and podcasting services operating in Canada with $10 million or more in annual revenue in this country, will have to register with it before Nov. 28.

          Why?

          University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, describes the information being collected as “limited” but said he suspects there is more to come from the CRTC.

          Limited?  How limited?

          …legal name of a company, its address, its telephone number and email, and what type of services it offers…

          They don’t need that.

          “What they’re signalling is, ‘We are going to be regulating the space, but we’re not telling you how.’ That makes it very hard,”

          In other words, they want to know WHOM they can go after (to censor, cancel, sue, etc) if they don’t follow the agenda/narrative, just like other nations are trying with places that host “user-generated content”.  (aka in the UK: Russell Brand over just unproven accusation / no criminal convictions)

          Under the Online Streaming Act (formerly known as Bill C-11), social media and online services offering podcasts will now have to register with the regulator, while social media users, including those who share podcasts over social platforms, will not.

          For now.

          But in order to determine how much “canadian content”, how soon before they demand user-information so they can determine not only if it is canadian content, but if individual content is “hate” for not following the agenda/narrative and will know WHOM they can go after (to censor, cancel, sue, etc).

          We are one step closer to the left’s authoritarian government.

          #307547
          Vknid
          Moderator

            “We are one step closer to the left’s authoritarian government.”

            That ship has sailed.

            And it has as well for the UK and much of the EU and the that same ship is about ready to pull out of port for the USA as well.

            It might be time we all shift gears from stopping the capture, to recapturing.

            #307554

            So the Indian fiasco was a cover for them to pull this shyte?

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