Canada’s broadcasting regulatory body, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has published a news release announcing that it will require podcast providers, social media services and online streaming platforms to register with the government.
Registration requires disclosing the name, address, email, and telephone number of the service, as well as a disclosure of what type of services it offers. The Canadian government calls this registration a “very light” burden. Just remember my position on registration:
Registration of ANYTHING by a government is a necessary first step towards regulating who may have, use, or partake in the regulated activity. That is true of speech, business, and possession of regulated items.
This is nothing more than the Canadian government making moves to restricting who may speak on any topic online. Canada is claiming that this regulation doesn’t pertain to social media companies like Facebook because, well, we already know that those companies are part of the communist movement.
We all know where this is headed- the left desperately needs to shut down websites and blogs like this one. Of course, they deny it.
“I don’t think that registration is the same as a censorship regime,” he said. However, he added, he isn’t without concern.
“The idea that you potentially would have to register with the Canadian government or with its agency, the CRTC, in order to engage in expression, because you meet a certain threshold for revenue is, I think, a real incursion into expression.”
My answer to that statement? Canada began with registration of “assault weapons” in 1995. In 2022, the Canadian government announced that they would begin a “mandatory buyback” of the registered weapons. Mandatory buyback is really leftspeak for “we are confiscating your shit, and we will give you an amount of money in compensation that we think is appropriate, and if you don’t like it, too bad.”
Now let’s see how that applies to speech.
6 Comments
foot in the forest · October 4, 2023 at 6:40 am
Canadians: Complying there way out of tyranny since 1995.
Jonathan · October 4, 2023 at 8:34 am
This isn’t new, unfortunately.
Like Britain, Canada has certain subjects the media can’t mention.
For many years, I don’t know how many, but I became aware of it in the 90’s, when US TV stations near the border broadcast programming the Canadian government doesn’t like, the Canadian government has jammed their transmissions.
How effective the jamming is, I don’t know.
Dirty Dingus McGee · October 4, 2023 at 8:54 am
At least they are being upfront about the effort to shut folks up. Here in the good ole USA they come at you from behind by going after the web host, demonetizing you, or just shadow banning you on various platforms.
Yay democracy.
Stealth Spaniel · October 4, 2023 at 11:39 am
And the Elites will wonder why the shooting starts. I’m sure that there are many “lost” guns in the Canandian Wilderness. The Native Indigenous population also has their share of ghost guns. The Cult of Castro’s Secret Son can only hold for so long; the CRTC answers to him.
SiG · October 4, 2023 at 12:43 pm
If I may add one little word here in bold:
“Mandatory buyback is really leftspeak for “we are confiscating your shit, and we will give you an amount of your money in compensation that we think is appropriate, and if you don’t like it, too bad.”
anonymous coward · October 4, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Maybe we should institute nation wide the light burden of registering with the government to vote?
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