Censorship in Canada

Canadian musician says broadcast rules forced redaction of lyrics on dissent and policing

Changes to Canadian broadcasting rules have raised concerns among musicians and free-expression advocates, as artists report being unable to advertise their work unless certain lyrics are altered or removed.

On a recent episode of Liberty Talk with Odessa Orlewicz, Canadian musician Jayme Knyx said he was told that his songs could not be promoted with original lyrics that referenced political dissent and social issues. One example came from his track Freedom’s Call, which originally included the line “The chains of power silence our voice.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Censorship, Censorship in Canada

Blackies online harms bill proposes Star Chamber, Criminal Code changes

The Liberal government is proposing new regulatory bodies and changes to a number of laws in new legislation to tackle online abuse.

The Online Harms Act, tabled Monday, proposes to police seven categories of harmful content online. Those categories include content used to bully a child and content that encourages a child to harm themselves.

They also include hate speech, content that incites violence or terrorism, content that sexualizes children or victims of sexual violence, and sexual content that is posted without consent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada

Federal government asked Twitter and Facebook to remove newspaper article, documents show

Newly released documents show that a federal government department asked Facebook and Twitter to delete a newspaper article that it felt contained errors — but both social-media giants denied the request.

The request to remove social-media posts that linked to an unspecified Toronto Sun article came from a director of communications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Sept. 27, 2021.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, WTF?

Rushdie stabbing prompts Canadian literary figures to highlight author’s free speech fight

Canadian writers, publishers and literary figures doubled down on the right to freedom of thought and expression on Saturday, one day after an attack in the U.S. on award-winning author Salman Rushdie that has left him on a ventilator in hospital.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada

Is Trudeau Going To Make Anti-Government Behaviour A Crime?

“The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) considers IMVE to have four sub-categories—“xenophobic, gender-driven, anti-authority and other personal grievance-driven violence,” the report outlines.

Anti-authority– to be interpreted as anti-government? Talk about a wide berth for legal interpretation. How will government define “anti-authority” behaviour? How about “any behaviour Justin Trudeau does not like.” Will actual violence have to take place? Or is this an incremental step toward what George Orwell wrote of as “thought-crimes?”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Indigo refuses to put best-selling Freedom Convoy book on its shelves

Canadian bookstore giant Indigo is refusing to sell The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World in its stores – despite the book being a best-seller.

Written by True North senior journalist Andrew Lawton, the book combines Lawton’s reporting and exclusive interviews with organizers and strives to tell the whole story of what happened in Ottawa during the convoy.

In a statement to the National Post, Indigo said it is not selling the book in its stores because they have limited shelf space for books.

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Jordan Peterson, Rex Murphy On Trudeau’s China Derived Internet Censorship

“Bill C- 11 all internet content as subject to the same CRTC regulation as CBC. I can’t believe I read it correctly. The bill is couched in all this diversity, inclusivity and equity terminology.”

“It’s unconscionable in a western democracy. Government are clamping down more viciously than any other developed country. Canadians won’t even know what content is hidden from them.”

— Dr. Jordan Peterson

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Unequal Speech: How to Explain the Contradictory Criticism of the CRTC Radio-Canada Decision and Support for Bill C-11

The controversy over the CRTC’s Radio-Canada decision involving its repeated use of the N-word has continued to grow with Quebec-based politicians – including the governing CAQ and the Liberal Party of Quebec – warning of censorship and calling on Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to reverse the CRTC decision. The outpouring has left me struggling to reconcile the seeming hypocrisy of politicians who warn about the dangers of CRTC speech regulation even as they have been the most ardent supporters of Bill C-11, eager to pass resolutions that call on the federal government to enact legislation empowering the CRTC to regulate user content.

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CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms to Manipulate Algorithms

The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications held an exceptionally important hearing as part of its Bill C-11 pre-study (which is about to change into a Bill C-11 study) last night featuring Canadian Heritage officials and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. I will have a second post on the officials, who struggled to provide clear answers to basic questions on everything from how to identify what counts as Cancon for user content (Youtube’s Content ID was suggested) to the absence of thresholds for what is covered by the bill (there are no thresholds and the government wants the ability to also target small streamers). But the key moment of the day came in questioning Scott about the discoverability and the potential for algorithmic manipulation.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Internet

Justin Trudeau’s authoritarian rule of Canada

Over the past two years, Canadians have been stripped of their Charter rights. Unvaccinated Canadians have been locked away from leaving the country and from seeing family members, people were forced to stay home in order to “save lives”, businesses were forced to shut their doors, church gatherings were limited by order of the state and now the government is seeking power to control what you and can and cannot see and say on the internet.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAuthoritarianism, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

The Trudeau government is on a quest for censorship

The government is currently trying to rush new censorship legislation through Parliament at lightning speed. Through Bill C-11, the Trudeau government plans to hand the CRTC the power to control what content Canadians are exposed to online. This includes filtering feeds on popular apps like Netflix, YouTube and TikTok.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the government is deliberately choosing not to disclose the scope of these new regulatory powers until after the bill becomes law.

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