#Canadian CRTC

[allthecanadianpolitics]

News that online streamers and podcasters will soon be required to register with Canada's broadcasting regulator is raising confusion and concerns that heavier regulation may be coming.

Late Friday afternoon, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced that online streaming and podcasting services operating in Canada with $10 million or more in annual revenue in this country, will have to register with it before Nov. 28.

Registration involves providing the legal name of a company, its address, its telephone number and email, and what type of services it offers. In its decision, released Friday, the CRTC called registration a "very light" burden.

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[talisidekick]

Do you want to BAN Fox News from Canadian Television?

Turns out the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wants you, fellow Canadian Resident/Citizen, to weigh in on the decision.

All you need to do is follow the above link, sort by deadline, and find this beauty who's deadline is June 2nd.

Now I hear you: why?

Well, Canada has anti-discrimination laws in it's constitution, and Fox News does a LOT of discrimination based on Sex, Gender, Race, Religion, Creed, etc. All protected by Canada. Their recent hate campaign is on Transgender, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Questionkng folk, Aromantics, Asexuals, Intersex, and pretty much anything under the rainbow flag that fights for the equality of minorities. It's alt-right radicalized "news" networks like this that seek to fearmonger and promote the terrorization of minorities. Their segments aren't grounded in fact but twisting the narrative deliberately to suit their goals of promoting hardcore christian and facist values.

As Canadians, which yes, I count those of you residing in Canada who have yet to obtain citizenship as one of us, it's our duty to try and make this country of ours as accepting of all people from all walks of life. Our diversity is what unites us, a programme like this seeks only division. It should not be on our airwaves in direct opposition of who we are as a people.

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

I was in Canadian Tire today looking wistfully at welding accessories and a big dude in camo pants walked up to look at power tools and he was accompanied by the faint but unmistakeable sound of alex jones' voice but I could not determine where it was coming from. Like I have to assume it was his phone but was he watching a youtube video? Listening to a podcast? Without headphones? In a public space? Sir we are here to look at expensive power tools and dream of owning them one day, there is No Room in this aisle for bigotry.

[mgeist]

The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 205: Len St-Aubin on What the CRTC’s Internet Streaming Ruling Means For Creators, Competition and Consumer Costs

Last week, the CRTC released its much-anticipated Bill C-11 ruling on the initial mandated contributions from Internet streaming services. While the government focused on the requirement to contribute 5% of Canadian revenues, a closer look revealed the CRTC largely ignored industry data and the actual contributions from Internet streaming services and seemed entirely unconcerned by the effects on…

[spectrumtacular]

🎶 1-3? :-)

1. A song you like with a colour in the title

In my psychadelic rock era rn so I'm gonna go with Eskimo Blue Day by Jefferson Airplane. Really great guitar in this one, plus I always love Grace Slick's vocals.

2. A song you like with a number in the title

My favourite track off Power in the Darkness by Tom Robinson Band, 2-4-6-8 Motorway!!! Very catchy + VERY fun to sing along to :)

3. A song Songs that reminds you of summertime

Summertime means roadtrips means I'm listening to Boom 97.3 FM means I'm hearing Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams + American Woman by The Guess Who + You Could Have Been a Lady by April Wine + Working for the Weekend by Loverboy + Bobcaygeon by The Tragically Hip roughly 18 million times. Also that one Kim Mitchell song I hate, on my hands and knees begging Canadian radio stations to play literally anything else to hit their cancon quota.

More music asks here!

[froggybangbang]

The online steaming act passed.

I'm not always on board with JJ in his opinions, but on this, I'm 100% with him. Fuck this. Echochamber is what they wanna give. And I've had no love for the CRTC for YEARS, and they are the ones who are going to decide how this law is applied....

This isn't going to be good for our online experience.

[katrotica]

My recent post of another Anais reminded me that she wasn’t the only Anais that I knew about which led to a nice trip down memory lane getting reacquainted with the other Anais I know. This Anais is also gorgeous and sexy (and in this case, naked!) She’s a fashion model, so that checks out. Occasionally they’re ok with some artsy nudity. You know, black and white and all that. She’s also Canadian and it’s important I meet my quota of Canadian girls otherwise the CRTC will get upset and withhold funding or something ;)

[survivingcapitalism]

CBC launched its highly revealing defence in an email reply to Jeff Winch, a retired professor at Humber College who had filed four complaints about CBC’s coverage with the CRTC, Canada’s telecoms regulator.

“The Hamas attack was referred to by the reporter as ‘vicious,’” Winch wrote in one complaint, citing an instance in early November on CBC Radio. “Why is it when Hamas attacks there is a toxic adjective attached but when Israel kills 8 times the number of people (including babies) no such adjectives are used?”

‘The events…are very different’

CBC’s senior manager of journalistic standards Nancy Waugh responded in a Dec. 5 email that Winch shared with The Breach:

You wrote that CBC reporters refer to the October 7 attacks as ‘murderous,’ ‘vicious,’ or ‘brutal,’ but don’t use the same words to describe Israeli attacks that kill Palestinians. Different words are used because although both result in death and injury, the events they describe are very different. The raid saw Hamas gunmen stream through the border fence and attack Israelis directly with firearms, knives and explosives. Gunmen chased down festival goers, assaulted kibbutzniks then shot them, fought hand to hand, and threw grenades. The attack was brutal, often vicious, and certainly murderous.  Bombs dropped from thousands of feet and artillery shells lofted into Gaza from kilometers away result in death and destruction on a massive scale, but it is carried out remotely. The deadly results are unseen by those who caused them and the source unseen by those [who] suffer and die. It’s a different kind of event and is described differently as ‘intensive,’ ‘unrelenting,’ and ‘punishing,’ raining death and destruction on one of the most densely populated places on earth…They are different stories, and we have tried to describe both accurately and vividly.  

The former professor Winch called this “a terrible answer.”

“I don’t think the language should have to do with the comfort of the person delivering death,” he told The Breach in an interview. “It’s about the devastation and destruction and violence that’s happening to the victims.”

[...]

Winch, one of the creators of the oral history project Voices of Palestine, said he’s been concerned with the Canadian media’s coverage of this issue since 2002, when Israel killed 22 civilians in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

“I remember thinking something was wrong with the news. I remember thinking the pictures and the words were not lining up for me,” he said. “I started reading and the more I read, the more it became clear that this whole conflict had been flipped upside down.”

Winch said he believes the Canadian media has inaccurately portrayed the Israeli state as the victim of “savage Arab terrorists” by systematically distorting the context about the state’s history of military occupation of the Palestinian territories.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

"Canada's telecom regulator is launching consultations on how to boost competition in the internet services market and lower prices.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said in a news release that it also would impose a 10 per cent reduction in some wholesale rates, effective immediately.

"The CRTC recognizes its current approach is not meeting its objective of encouraging more competition in the Internet services market," the news release says.

The review will look at the rates internet service providers pay to large telecom companies for network access. It also will look at whether telecom giants should give competitors access to their fibre-to-home networks, which have faster internet speeds.

Comments can be sent via online form, mail or fax on the latter question until April 24, 2023. Comments on all other matters the CRTC is reviewing will be accepted until June 22, 2023."

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[tilltheendwilliwrite]

For my Canadian followers who think what's happening in the US can't happen here, watch this, then go to www.digitalfirstcanada.ca and send a letter to your local MP to fix Bill-C11.

We should be the ones in charge of what we see and what we want to see online, not the CRTC.

[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Chatkontrolle ist kein "nationales" Thema

USA, Kanada, Großbritannen und nun auch die EU

Nicht nur in der EU geht das Gespenst der Chatkontrolle um, in Großbritannien ist das entsprechende Gesetz durch und auch in Kanada ist das Thema aktuell. Interessant ist, dass die Diskussionen zu diesem  "weitreichenden Versuche westlicher Demokratien, die Online-Sprache zu regulieren" bereits seit fünf Jahren durch die Politik geistert. Damit zeigt sich, dass der Wunsch nach Online-Zensur nicht erst als Reaktion auf COVID entstanden ist.

Seit dem 19. September 2023 gilt das Gesetz zur Zensur von Online-Inhalten im Vereinigten Königreich. Am 29. September 2023, also nur 10 Tage später kündigte die kanadische Radio-, Fernseh- und Telekommunikationskommission (CRTC) an, dass alle Online-Streaming-Dienste, die Podcasts anbieten, sich registrieren lassen und den gesetzlichen Kontrollen unterwerfen müssen. Und in der EU gilt der Digital Services Act (DSA), der Online-Unternehmen verpflichtet, ihre Plattformen aktiv zu überwachen.

Outsourcing der Zensur

Wie die New York Times berichtet, zwingt der Gesetzentwurf Online-Plattformen dazu, "proaktiv nach anstößigem Material zu suchen und zu beurteilen, ob es illegal ist", anstatt sie zu zwingen, erst zu handeln, nachdem sie auf illegale Inhalte aufmerksam gemacht wurden.

In den USA ist man bereits einen Schritt weiter. Dort haben sich Menschen (und NGOs) gegen solche Maßnahmen gewehrt. Die US-Regierung hat mit der Kennzeichnung von Material, das entfernt werden soll, die verfassungsmäßigen Rechte auf freie Meinungsäußerung eingeschränkt und dagegen gab es juristische Schritte. Am 8. September 2023 bestätigte das Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals einen Teil der einstweiligen Verfügung der Vorinstanz und verbot dem Weißen Haus, dem Surgeon General, den Centers for Disease Control and Prevention und dem FBI, Social-Media-Unternehmen zu beeinflussen, um „Desinformationen“ zu entfernen. Leider hob das Berufungsgericht wieder Teile der ursprünglichen Verfügung auf.

So ist es Beamten der Agentur für Cybersicherheit und Infrastruktursicherheit (CISA) weiterhin erlaubt den Unternnehmen Anweisungen zur Zensur zu geben und die CISA  wird weiter eine zentrale Rolle bei der Zensur der Amerikaner durch die Regierung spielen.

Welche "Desinformationen" sind gemeint?

Das bleibt im einzelnen Auslegungssache, eindeutig festgelegt sind nur wenige Begriffe

Pornografie und sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern

Informationen, die Selbstmord, Selbstbeschädigung oder Essstörungen fördern

"Fehlinformationen über Impfstoffe" und andere "gesundheitsschädliche Inhalte"

Bei den "gesundheitsschädlichen Inhalten" können Veganer, Vegetarier und Fleischesser sicher sehr verschiedene Ansichten haben. Die Verantwortung für das Sperren der Informationen obliegt aber nach allen Gesetzen (egal ob in Nordamerika, GB oder EU) stets den privaten Anbietern. Da denen empfindliche Strafen in der Höhe von 4-10% ihres Umsatzes drohen, werden sie sicher vorsichtshalber proaktiv handeln und ihre Zensurbefugnisse mit übermäßiger Härte einsetzen.

Das globale Internet wird fraktioniert

In der EU wurde uns versichert, dass es nur gegen die Großen, z.B. die Big5, ginge, da der DSA von Unternehmen mit einem Jahresumsatz von 10 Millionen und mehr spricht. Kanada und Großbritannien zeigen, dass es auch die Kleinen treffen wird. Im verlinkten Artikel lesen wir:

Die staatliche Regulierungsbehörde, die Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), kündigte an, dass sie unabhängige Produzenten von Inhalten, darunter Online-Nachrichtenunternehmen und "Einzelpersonen, die Podcasts auf ihren eigenen Websites hosten, zur Registrierung verpflichten werde". Die Registrierung ist der erste Schritt zur Regulierung. ...

Kanadas neues Online-Nachrichtengesetz verpflichtet "marktbeherrschende Plattformen" dazu , "Nachrichtenunternehmen zu entschädigen, wenn deren Inhalte auf ihren Diensten verfügbar gemacht werden" - was an das fehlgeschlagene deutsche Leistungschutzrecht (LSR) erinnert. Darauf erklärte Facebook am 1. Juni 2023: "Um dem Online News Act zu entsprechen, haben wir damit begonnen, die Verfügbarkeit von Nachrichten in Kanada zu beenden ... Nachrichtenlinks und -inhalte, die von Nachrichtenverlagen und Sendern in Kanada gepostet werden, können von Menschen in Kanada nicht mehr eingesehen werden".

Egal ob uns Nachrichten wegen des Geld Verdienens vorenthalten werden oder es um politische Zensur geht - wir setzen uns weiter für Informationsfreiheit und Transparenz ein. Allein das Wissen, dass alle unsere Nachrichten künftig mitgelesen und "überprüft" werden, ist ein schwerer Eingriff in unsere Grundrechte.

Mehr dazu bei https://uncutnews.ch/information-compliance-gesetzentwurf-zur-abschaffung-der-freien-meinungsaeusserung-verabschiedet/

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[the-barn-rat]

so happy to see someone who (presumably) didn't grow up under the influence of the CRTC regulations preaching the good word of marianas trench!! josh ramsay is seriously such a killer pop songwriter

oops im canadian. i just don't live there anymore lmao

but like YEAH

[mgeist]

The House of Cards Crumbles: Why the Bell Media Layoffs and Government’s Failed Media Policy are Connected

Bell’s announcement this week that it is laying off thousands of workers – including nearly 500 Bell Media employees – has sparked political outrage with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau characterizing it as a “garbage decision.” The job losses are obviously brutal for those directly affected and it would be silly to claim that a single policy response was responsible. Yet to suggest that the…

[cancmbyn]

Canadian podcasters platforms now subject to CRTC regulation.

Interesting piece.

I’d say the majority of the podcasts I listen to originate outside of Canada. But the Canadian ones are becoming increasingly commercialized with ad spots and pleas for support - so that they sound like commercial radio.

And this will likely only speed up matters.