Monday, June 07, 2021

There's Transparency and Then There's "Transparency"

Like so:

Government business has ground to a halt in the Commons as MPs protest Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s attempt to gag debate on first-ever regulation of legal internet content. Cabinet said it is now “virtually impossible” to pass Bill C-10 without forcing a vote: “At this rate it would likely take more than six months.”

 

Or not passing it?

That would be better.

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You make a video and post it on YouTube. Nobody watches it. It does not pop up on searches or on “recommended” lists. YouTube has buried your video, not on its own initiative, but at the direction of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) — perhaps because your video was not “Canadian” enough, or because its message offended government policy. If Bill C-10 — which authorizes the CRTC to regulate online media platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook and Spotify — becomes law, this is a scenario Canadians could face in the not-so-distant future.

 

 

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