The road to hell is paved with the best intentions....

Read this report. ITs a part of the digital platform system my country wants to put up.
These are not legislative documents but policy directions.

Its pretty scary for individuality. It basically throws out the whole individualism of the internet and turns it communist...

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-h.....gy/report.html
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/110.ns.....eng/00012.html

while i belive in some community efforts the internet has largely been built by private hands with private money aside from 6 original computers designed to handle classified research information.

It is not a government enterprise.

YOu cannot force 2 companys to interconnect if they do not want to. You have to pay for the privlidge (and no govermnents gunna pay for it)
You can not tell a private enterprise what its for profit private model can and cannot do
You cannot tell a company that it can only sell national brands and national carriers when there are only 3 media choice for most people in the country.
you cannot force a company to create content against its will without funding it. This isnt traditional broadcasting anymore.

If the goverment wants a national internet and media policy like this in the digital age then you CANNOT do it on the free will of others.

Either pay for it yourself and have a national ISP and culture commission like a respressive regime does.

Or you make a slush fund that everyone pays into.


And if you think you can proxy out of this read this,...


We recommend that the existing licensing regime in the Broadcasting Act be accompanied by a registration regime. This would require a person carrying on a media content undertaking by means of the Internet to register unless otherwise exempt. Those carrying on a media content undertaking by means other than the Internet would continue to require a licence unless otherwise exempt.

To ensure that Canadians are able to make informed choices and that Canadian content has sufficient visibility and is easy to find on the services that Canadians use, we recommend that the CRTC impose discoverability obligations on all audio or audiovisual entertainment media content undertakings, as it deems appropriate, including:

catalogue or exhibition requirements;
prominence obligations;
the obligation to offer Canadian media content choices; and
transparency requirements, notably that companies be transparent with the CRTC regarding how their algorithms operate, including audit requirements.

We recommend that the CRTC use its power to collect information and obtain consumption data from online media content undertakings and publish them in aggregated form.

We recommend that to promote the discoverability of Canadian news content, the CRTC impose the following requirements, as appropriate, on media aggregation and media sharing undertakings:

links to the websites of Canadian sources of accurate, trusted, and reliable sources of news with a view to ensuring a diversity of voices; and
prominence rules to ensure visibility and access to such sources of news.


76. We recommend that the Broadcasting Act be amended to ensure that the CRTC can — by regulation, condition of licence, or condition of registration — impose reporting requirements, including with respect to financial information, consumption data, and technological processes such as algorithms, on all media content undertakings.

77. We recommend that to strengthen the compliance regime for both licences and registrations, the Broadcasting Act be amended to include provisions for Administrative Monetary Penalties, similar to the general scheme in the Telecommunications Act, with maximum thresholds set at a level high enough to create a deterrent for foreign undertakings.

78. We recommend that to address piracy, sections 9 and 10 of the Radiocommunication Act — which state that it is an offence to decode, retransmit, or operate devices, equipment, or components to receive unlawfully decrypted subscription programs — be moved to the Broadcasting Act and be expanded to include all forms of media content, whether received through satellites or the Internet.

Any internet company that even serves media {PROXY PROVIDER} has to be registered or liscenced to operate a physical server in the country.
all the interconnect points are broadcastors too and subject to canadian content filtering.

THIS IS THE GREAT CANADIAN FIREWALL. Its far easier to filter at the incomming points of a national broadband network and have one single point of control then to regulate the thousands of private peering points with heavy red tape and burdensome consumption and ip logs.

either that or put the responsibility on the isp and not the content providers to filter commerical content appropriately.

Just do what china does already and stop with the lube im allergic to it