Canada cracks down on streaming and podcasts
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC ) announced new conditions for online streaming services broadcasting in the country. According to the news release posted on Friday, the body is requiring content providers earning $10 million or more in annual revenue to provide information about their activities and complete a registration form by November 28.
The regulatory plan is devised to ensure that the streaming services make “meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content,” the CRTC said.
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/industr/modern/plan.htm
“We are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances. To do that, we need broad engagement and robust public records,” Vicky Eatrides, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, CRTC said as quoted by the website.
The new rules arise from the Online Streaming Act, formerly known as Bill C-11, that took effect in April this year. The legislation has given new powers to Canada’s broadcasting regulator and includes the ability to impose financial penalties against people and businesses that violate certain provisions of the Broadcasting Act or its regulations.
In August this year, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram among others, pulled news content from their platforms in Canada in retaliation to new legislation requiring internet giants to pay publishers for the news articles shared on their social media sites.
Google said last month they would follow the suit if “the serious structural issues” with the legislation are not resolved.
What does it mean? More censorship and controlled information in this country. Everything is getting centralized, controlled, and soon persecuted, exactly like in socialist Soviet Union, ran by politburo. It’s time to wake up and start to be interested in public affairs. As Ayn Rand, a Russian-born American writer and public philosopher quoted:” You can ignore the reality, but you can not ignore consequences from reality. “Consequences already became hard in Canada.
NN, DB
