the true reason for the existence of the CRTC (and of course the CBC) is to turn us all into good little progressive drones who repeat the leftist pieties on command and vote for the liberal party. C-10 is one more cobblestone on the road to that desired destination. thank you mr menzies for your clear explication of these issues, and particularly for exposing the phoney efforts to put lipstick on this pig.
From the moment I first heard of this bill I thought it sounded unconstitutional: it's a clear violation of the first amendment! I was later surprised to learn that the first amendment doesn't apply to me.
Maybe if the CRTC had mandated more Canadian content when I was growing up, I'd have already known that, but I somehow doubt it.
The CRTC, not including the technical and engineering departments needs to be shut down. It is an embarrassment that Canada needs big brother to make sure the peasants are watching the right thing. It's also an embarrassment that the content creators are basically paid off via grants and jobs to not cause trouble for the politicians.
I find myself in the bizarre position of agreeing with every word, and not caring.
Well, not every word: technologically speaking, being able to post video to the Internet for all to see is exactly like having your own TV station in 1966. Only the sociology is different. Mass access to your own TV station vastly dilutes the power of any one "TV station". Supposedly such dilute power needs no regulation, can do little harm. If that's the argument, then it ignores "viral" content that is at least as widely distributed, in a day, because it weaponizes the things we're addicted to, like the urge to look at a car accident.
But here's the thing: no regulation can prevent an information "outbreak". If you've got a picture of Trudeau in blackface, or documents proving that Lavalin bribed him, no CRTC regulation in the world can keep it from getting out.
Under CRTC regulation of every social media post, I can see business models being ruined, but not journalism itself. Regulated media break government embarrassments all the time.
I think my emotional bottom line is my utter contempt for what I saw on Facebook, in the pandemic months that I kept visting every day, telling myself I was staying in touch with friends. I saw about six worthy links to journalism I didn't otherwise find, in several months, and endured several thousand lying, stupid, counterfactual memes from my old friends who've turned quasi-fascist.
And I'm old. There didn't use to be any social media, so even if the government regulation was 'shut it all down', we'd just be back to 1999. Not exactly an Orwellian dystopia.
So: This is all theoretically important, but my time on Facebook leaves me with zero energy to defend social media from anything. If every Facebook and Twitter server were currently being deleted by crazed evil hackers, I'd turn to the sports.
the true reason for the existence of the CRTC (and of course the CBC) is to turn us all into good little progressive drones who repeat the leftist pieties on command and vote for the liberal party. C-10 is one more cobblestone on the road to that desired destination. thank you mr menzies for your clear explication of these issues, and particularly for exposing the phoney efforts to put lipstick on this pig.
From the moment I first heard of this bill I thought it sounded unconstitutional: it's a clear violation of the first amendment! I was later surprised to learn that the first amendment doesn't apply to me.
Maybe if the CRTC had mandated more Canadian content when I was growing up, I'd have already known that, but I somehow doubt it.
The CRTC, not including the technical and engineering departments needs to be shut down. It is an embarrassment that Canada needs big brother to make sure the peasants are watching the right thing. It's also an embarrassment that the content creators are basically paid off via grants and jobs to not cause trouble for the politicians.
I find myself in the bizarre position of agreeing with every word, and not caring.
Well, not every word: technologically speaking, being able to post video to the Internet for all to see is exactly like having your own TV station in 1966. Only the sociology is different. Mass access to your own TV station vastly dilutes the power of any one "TV station". Supposedly such dilute power needs no regulation, can do little harm. If that's the argument, then it ignores "viral" content that is at least as widely distributed, in a day, because it weaponizes the things we're addicted to, like the urge to look at a car accident.
But here's the thing: no regulation can prevent an information "outbreak". If you've got a picture of Trudeau in blackface, or documents proving that Lavalin bribed him, no CRTC regulation in the world can keep it from getting out.
Under CRTC regulation of every social media post, I can see business models being ruined, but not journalism itself. Regulated media break government embarrassments all the time.
I think my emotional bottom line is my utter contempt for what I saw on Facebook, in the pandemic months that I kept visting every day, telling myself I was staying in touch with friends. I saw about six worthy links to journalism I didn't otherwise find, in several months, and endured several thousand lying, stupid, counterfactual memes from my old friends who've turned quasi-fascist.
And I'm old. There didn't use to be any social media, so even if the government regulation was 'shut it all down', we'd just be back to 1999. Not exactly an Orwellian dystopia.
So: This is all theoretically important, but my time on Facebook leaves me with zero energy to defend social media from anything. If every Facebook and Twitter server were currently being deleted by crazed evil hackers, I'd turn to the sports.
Thank you Peter Menzies!