“I have a million more YouTube subscribers than our national broadcaster CBC,” Peterson tweeted. “So does that make me a broadcaster to be regulated by Trudeau’s pathetic minions? Or does it just indicate that CBC is a failure, despite the fortune it takes in in public subsidy?”
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is doubling down on his controversial new broadcasting bill at a parliamentary committee hearing, citing a Justice Department analysis to reiterate the legislation would not affect free speech online.
Bill C-10’s amendments regulating social media websites Canadians use don’t pose any charter-related free speech concerns, Canada’s Justice Minister Davidsaid in the second charter review of the bill.
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault attempted to advocate for his controversial Bill C-10, citing multiple Canadian cultural organizations as supporters. Guilbeault failed to mention, however, is that many of the organizations he listed were recipients of government funding.
While we’ve all been distracted by the government’s bumbling overreach with Bill C-10, they’ve launched yet another attack on our online rights and freedoms: a Bell-backed proposal to give the government sweeping censorship powers to demand ISPs block websites, and have ISPs suspend our Internet, or even ban us permanently. All this any time that litigious rights holding companies like Rogers, Disney or Bell claim we’ve improperly accessed their copyrighted materials.
Unbelievable interview with @S_Guilbeault on Bill C-10. He now says users with large number of followers or views *will* be subject to CRTC regulation, calling them broadcasters too. Bill C-10 treats everyone’s content as a “program” subject to regulation. https://t.co/vFzMYpr4NQ
— Michael Geist (@mgeist) May 9, 2021
The Trudeau government’s obsession with regulating, censoring and ultimately controlling what Canadians can see on social media is part of a much larger agenda of instructing Canadians on what and how to think.
Trudeau’s remark came under questioning yesterday of Bill C-10 that would regulate YouTube videos as programs subject to CRTC controls.
Canada’s cultural sector, long a champion of rights and social justice, now finds itself — despite Monday’s government pullback — in the awkward position of having inspired the mugging of free speech and expression on the internet.
Steven Guilbeault managed to make Patty Hajdu look competent.
Yes, I know you are thinking that is impossible. But just watch this absolute nightmare of an interview.
As The Liberal Government Attempts To Steal Your Freedom of Expression, Canadians Must Prove Whether We Are Worthy Of The Rights Our Ancestors Fought For.
“While we support creating a level playing field between large foreign streaming services and Canadian broadcasters, C-10 is a bad piece of legislation giving too much power to the CRTC to regulate the internet and provides no clear guidelines for how that power will be used,” Reyes said in a statement Monday morning.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the study, which gauged Canadians’ reactions to combating misinformation and hate speech, revealed that over half of respondents opposed government regulation.
Free expression and healthy discourse will be lost if government advances a proposal to establish a regulator to monitor hate and harassment.
During a House of Commons committee meeting on Monday, Liberal Minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault claimed that his government had no plans to censor Canadians online despite seeking to introduce sweeping social media regulations.
