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PAOV — Recent changes to Bill C-10 would allow the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to regulate all your social media posts. After facing significant backlash from many who say the bill threatens freedom of speech online, the federal government has vowed to make amendments that will ensure social media uploads won’t be regulated. Details of the changes or when they can be expected have not been confirmed. Petition starter Ryan wants to protect freedom of speech online, you can join him by adding your signature now.
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Recent government changes to the bill meant to modernize the Canadian broadcasting act could expand regulation to everything individual Canadians put on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. The law that would see Canadians subjected to the most regulated internet in the free world.
The bill, in its current state, would turn the YouTube video of a kid’s soccer game, or the Instagram reel you posted of your brunch, or a TikTok you posted into a “program” that could be subject to regulation under the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) rules.
“It’s your Facebook post. It’s your tweet. It’s your cat videos. It’s your pictures of your children and grandchildren and that sort of stuff,” said Peter Menzies, a former CRTC vice-chair and past newspaper publisher.
“What it means is that somebody will be watching that, from the government, or a government regulator, and will be able to order it to be taken down if they find that it doesn’t suit whatever purposes they have.”
“Doesn’t just infringe on free expression, it constitutes a full-blown assault upon it and, through it, the foundations of democracy.”
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