CRTC takes major step forward to modernize (i.e., regulate) Canada’s broadcasting framework

[mountaineer]

This is the government version, that regulation and control = modernization.

CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework
September 29, 2023—Ottawa–Gatineau—Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

Today, the CRTC is advancing its regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content.

On May 12, 2023, the CRTC launched its first public consultations. After thoroughly examining all the evidence on the public record, including over 200 interventions, the CRTC is issuing its first two decisions. 

First, the CRTC is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023. Registration collects basic information, is only required once and can be completed in just a few steps.

Second, the CRTC is setting conditions for online streaming services to operate in Canada. These conditions take effect today and require certain online streaming services to provide the CRTC with information related to their content and subscribership. The decision also requires those services to make content available in a way that is not tied to a specific mobile or Internet service. ...

[mountaineer]

Here's what it means:

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛
@ezralevant
1. Governments hide things by announcing them on Friday afternoons.
Last night, Trudeau announced he now requires YouTubers, livestreamers & podcasters (including those streaming on X/Twitter) to “register” with the government.  It’s part of his Internet censorship strategy.

2. This shocking decision was not debated, let alone voted on, by Parliament. It’s a decree, like Castro would do. Trudeau used his hand-picked appointees at the CRTC — the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission — to announce this hijacking.

3. The CRTC is a relic of the age of radio and TV, created in 1976. It’s been for more than a decade — other than for handing out lucrative monopolies to Canada’s cell phone cartel. Canadians literally pay the highest phone rates in the world: https://research.rewheel.fi/downloads/The_state_of_4G_5G_pricing_17_release_1H2022_countries_PUBLIC_VERSION.pdf

4. The CRTC is intensely political. It killed off the Sun News Network — dubbed “Fox News North” — in 2015. Sun News wanted the same regulatory treatment as the two left-wing all-news channels, and the CRTC denied it.

5. I used to work at Sun News; out of its ashes we built Rebel News. We were rebelling against three things — Media Party groupthink; expensive TV infrastructure; and CRTC regulation. On the Internet we were free. Within a few years we had a much larger reach than Sun News had.

6. Other online news sources have grown in Canada, too, as the legacy media have shrunk. News outlets like True North & Western Standard. And of course marquee names like Dr. Jordan Peterson, a global talent who just happens to be based in Canada and occasionally tweaks Trudeau.

7. Trudeau’s approach since taking power has been to subsidize the dying Regime Media. He gives $1.5B/year to the CBC state broadcaster and annual bail-outs to the rest of the media. For about thirty seconds they objected. Now they beg for more: https://cbc.ca/amp/1.5147761

8. Despite sending billions of dollars to what Trudeau calls “trustworthy” media, fewer people than ever watch regime news. And it hasn’t helped working journalists — executives pocket big bonuses while reporters are laid off.

9. By the way, the bailout media don’t just fail despite Trudeau’s cash. They fail because of it. Very few news organizations permit critical coverage of Trudeau anymore, and people can sense it. I mean, here’s the state broadcaster’s chief Ottawa reporter.

10. Rebel News started in my living room just eight years ago but 41% of Canadians already trust us MORE than age-old legacy media like the CBC, CTV, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.

11. My point is: Trudeau is a control freak when it comes to the news media. He routinely bans journalists he doesn’t like from attending press conferences or even attending election debates. Twice the Federal a court has had to order him to accredit us: https://t.co/5d1mfcumxo

12. But despite his bans, and his massive subsidies to his state broadcasters and the bail-out journalists at the newspapers, independent media led by citizen journalists continue to thrive and legacy media continues to decline. ...

Full thread and other links at:

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1708262021228069237

[mountaineer]

Put another way:

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls ...
9:59 AM · Oct 1, 2023

[mountaineer]

ICYMI: Tyrant Justin Trudeau Moves to Regulate Podcasts and to Analyze and Track Content and Subscribers …Update: Elon Musk Weighs In
by Jim Hᴏft Oct. 1, 2023 4:40 pm

Canadian tyrant Justin Trudeau’s government recently moved to its next phase of controlling the population. The Trudeau government will now regulate podcasts and track content and subscribers. This tyrannical order comes after Trudeau restricted access to news in Canada last August.

This should come as no surprise, Trudeau previously froze the bank accounts of protesting truckers in Canada. The Trudeau government announced that being “pro-Trump” was a factor they would use to freeze accounts. ...

The changes mean that people in Canada will no longer be able to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram. The availability of Meta’s services will remain unchanged for users outside of Canada. ...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/justin-trudeau-moves-regulate-podcasts-analyze-track-content/

[Wingnut]

Fidel's child learned much from his father.

[Kamaji]

And Canadians will just take this lying down?  Wow. 

[Wingnut]

And Canadians will just take this lying down?  Wow.

If they don't they will get the same treatment as the Truckers did during the great covid lockdown.
Lock your bank accounts. Seize your property and throw their asses in the gulag.

[mountaineer]

Comrade Common Sense™ 🇵🇱🇨🇦
@komradeperogie
Sooo let me get this straight.

Censorship is on the rise in Canada, while fossil fuels, natural gas, and CO2 are on the decline.

When the population is hungry from food shortages and/or skyrocketing food prices, caused by a decline in fossil fuel use, the state broadcaster will tell everyone that climate change did it, and/or that the state will be seizing the means of production for everyone's "safety."

And they will gaslight citizens by convincing you it's always been like this.

You also won't have access to real information.

I see where this is going.
7:42 AM · Oct 3, 2023