OTTAWA -- Over the last few weeks, concerns have been growing over the suggestion that the federal government is leaving the door open in new legislation to allowing what you post online to be subject to federal regulations.
He’s now vowing to make it “crystal clear” that the government is only planning to go after tech giants and “professional” online audio or video such as television, movies, music, or podcasts, rather than individual Canadians’ social media posts.HOW THE BILL WAS FIRST PRESENTEDWhen it was first introduced
Bill C-10 was passed into the committee study phase, with mixed reactions among MPs, in mid-February.Bill C-10 has been before the House of Commons Canadian Heritage Committee since then, and over the last few months MPs have heard from more than 70 witnesses and received nearly 50 written submissions from experts, stakeholders, and broadcast industry representatives expressing their views on the bill.
“In other words, when you or I upload something to YouTube or some other sharing service, we will not be considered broadcasters for the purposes of the act… The CRTC couldn't call us before them, and we couldn't be subject to CRTC hearings and whatnot,” Thomas Owen Ripley, the director general of the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Broadcasting, Copyright and Creative Marketplace Branch, told the committee at the time the amendment was being deliberated.
“The power that they're putting in the bill itself is immense, and … no matter what their best intentions might be, you never know what's going to happen in any future government and how they might use those powers as well,” she said in an interview with CTV News. “When we are in a place in Canadian history where we are using social media platforms as the public square, it is important to protect the voices of Canadians and how they express those voices in those spaces… When the government goes so far as that are regulating what people are saying or posting, it has gone too far,” said Conservative MP and digital government critic Rachael Harder at a committee hearing on Monday.
In explaining their backing of the bill in general while still wanting to check in on the Charter compliance of it, McPherson said in a joint statement with her colleague and fellow heritage critic Alexandre Boulerice that: “it’s possible to both ensure freedom of expression is protected while creating a level playing field between web giants and Canadian companies.”
Today regulate your videos,tomorrow regulater your words! The Trudeau is CCP’s good student!
Look a Bill C10. It’s 158 pages. There is slot going on besides regulating post on FB
Hard no.
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