Is user-generated content covered by the Liberal government’s revamping of the Broadcasting Act through Bill C-11? It depends who you ask. When Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on June 6, he insisted several times that Canadians who post content online should not be worried about…
Bill C-11 Will Allow CRTC to Regulate User-Generated Content, Chair Confirms
The Liberal government is pursuing different pieces of legislation to regulate the internet, one of which intends to extend the government’s oversight of traditional broadcasting to the digital sphere and its platforms. While the government has said user-generated content will be exempt, the chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said on May…
Ottawa’s Proposed Bills to Curtail Online Harms ‘Oblivious’ to Reality: Former CRTC Officials
Any attempts to regulate the internet should stay as far as possible from trying to manage what people have to say, for at best, it leads to a quagmire of legal wrangling; at worst, it leads to suppression of free speech by the government, say former chairs of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)….
Ottawa’s Proposed Bills to Curtail Online Harms ‘Oblivious’ to Reality: Former CRTC Chairs
Any attempts to regulate the internet should steer clear of trying to manage what people have to say, for at best it leads to a quagmire of legal wrangling, while at worst it leads to suppression of free speech by the government, say former chairs of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “Early efforts…
Heritage Minister’s Actions Validate for Second Time Concerns Over Online Speech Regulation Are Legitimate
Commentary Canada’s Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has now twice confirmed that fears regarding the looming regulation of online speech in Canada were and continue to be legitimate. The first was when, in early February, he introduced Bill C-11—the Trudeau government’s second attempt, to put it simply, to define the global internet as mere broadcasting and…
The Liberals’ Internet Censorship Bill Is Back, and It’s More Concerning Than Ever
February 3, 2022
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Commentary So far, no one has offered a better description of the federal government’s efforts to control the internet than Charlie Angus. Calling last fall for regulation that addressed the use of algorithms by social media platforms such as Facebook, the veteran NDP MP called Bill C-10 a “political dumpster fire” that gave an ill-equipped…
A Look at the Liberal Government’s Different Internet Content Control Measures
The Liberal government’s Bill C-10, which has been criticized by the opposition and advocates for its potential to limit free speech, is part of a number of measures and directives issued by the federal government for internet and speech control. These measures include introducing new regulations for online content, a legal framework to address “online…
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