Canada now requires YouTubers, livestreamers & podcasters (including those streaming on X/Twitter) to “register” with the government.

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CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework
www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2023/09/crtc-takes-major-step-forward-to-modernize-canadas-broadcasting-framework.html

From Ezra Levant’s tweets:

  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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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: cbc.ca/amp/1.5147761
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This may be more troubling:

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.

Sounds very vague and troubling.

More:

  1. It’s not just Jordan Peterson who will be forced to register, because of his Canadian residence. American broadcasters with Canadian audiences will, also. Nineteen out of the top 30 podcasts in Canada are American: chartable.com/charts/itunes/ca-news-podcasts They’re covered by this decree.
  2. It will be interesting to see if American podcasters will save us, because the Canadian media won’t, for the reasons outlined above. Forcing American media to “register” is anathema to the First Amendment, and likely a violation of the USMCA trade agreement.

 

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