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Update on Canadian Internet Censorship.
4 years ago
General
Bill C10 as it is now has been stalled in the Senate at the moment while the other half of our parliament chews on the communistic idea. With the session close looming (Aug 18) time is running out for the bill to be passed and signed into law. The Bill will have to restart during the next session from scratch.
There is a good chance that the NDP/Liberal collation will be undone and this Minority Stalemate will cease triggering an election. (it would have already but we had a Pendemic and no one wants to campaign carrying hand-sanitizer while being marked by the beast) The pandemic is ending and thus the "unholy left alliance" will finally end. Thankfully our Conservative Blue is not really that bad and itll likely be a Blue-Orange minority (instead of Red-Orange) until big blue shifts to the center enough to run a country properly.
Will see what happens though.
The heritage department has released its communistic goals for internet regulation here: This is the overarching policy goals of Heritage Canada in its internet censorship plans. Essentially its a whishlist that completely removes commercial interest from the internet completely and replaces it with communistic ideals straight out of liberation theology.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-h.....rinciples.html
Some of it is good but some of it is not. In theory it works but the internet has always followed the money more than it has idealism. And money tends to go for extremes and excesses as well as anything goes.
It is also non-binding which means people can choose not to follow it.
Does this mean blocking content that is not signatory or routing around it. or is it implicit and competitive with ideals of other elements.
This approach is very "canadian" indeed (and many view it as government regulating speech again) but does our Closed circuit highly regulated "broadcasting system"--to the points of fonts and speech patterns--have the capability to fine 5 figures to each individual (or a company for each violation) every time there is a dispute about "content fairness or accessibility (like what recently happened with an artist.) Will it have stopped me from being made by a court to delete my twitter in 2009 and effectively exit myself from most of the baby-fur fandom? (with legal threats from canadian courts if i go back?)
(if that kind of material will even be acceptable in the future)
Ill wait to see. It is a double-edged sword that will cleave the internet and people will go out of their way to avoid anything they dont agree with. Even if it means a police beating and broken ribs.
Good luck into forcing the incumbents to build more fibre(the spelling error is a license violation) to disadvantaged "redlined" communities with easement restrictions (why i cant get FTTH where I live even though i live in a major city) or is this just lip service to something that'll be subject to the whims of government propaganda like the original Canadian Content Regulations were in the 50s
We shall see Canada We shall see.
There is a good chance that the NDP/Liberal collation will be undone and this Minority Stalemate will cease triggering an election. (it would have already but we had a Pendemic and no one wants to campaign carrying hand-sanitizer while being marked by the beast) The pandemic is ending and thus the "unholy left alliance" will finally end. Thankfully our Conservative Blue is not really that bad and itll likely be a Blue-Orange minority (instead of Red-Orange) until big blue shifts to the center enough to run a country properly.
Will see what happens though.
The heritage department has released its communistic goals for internet regulation here: This is the overarching policy goals of Heritage Canada in its internet censorship plans. Essentially its a whishlist that completely removes commercial interest from the internet completely and replaces it with communistic ideals straight out of liberation theology.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-h.....rinciples.html
Some of it is good but some of it is not. In theory it works but the internet has always followed the money more than it has idealism. And money tends to go for extremes and excesses as well as anything goes.
It is also non-binding which means people can choose not to follow it.
Does this mean blocking content that is not signatory or routing around it. or is it implicit and competitive with ideals of other elements.
This approach is very "canadian" indeed (and many view it as government regulating speech again) but does our Closed circuit highly regulated "broadcasting system"--to the points of fonts and speech patterns--have the capability to fine 5 figures to each individual (or a company for each violation) every time there is a dispute about "content fairness or accessibility (like what recently happened with an artist.) Will it have stopped me from being made by a court to delete my twitter in 2009 and effectively exit myself from most of the baby-fur fandom? (with legal threats from canadian courts if i go back?)
(if that kind of material will even be acceptable in the future)
Ill wait to see. It is a double-edged sword that will cleave the internet and people will go out of their way to avoid anything they dont agree with. Even if it means a police beating and broken ribs.
Good luck into forcing the incumbents to build more fibre(the spelling error is a license violation) to disadvantaged "redlined" communities with easement restrictions (why i cant get FTTH where I live even though i live in a major city) or is this just lip service to something that'll be subject to the whims of government propaganda like the original Canadian Content Regulations were in the 50s
We shall see Canada We shall see.
Everything else is a "meh" I guess... =/
But the devil is going to be in the actual regulations and details of the bill that hasnt yet been made public. As well as the rules the CTRC establishes around this and how it will be enforced.
https://www.lexology.com/library/de.....0-0ab77ef767f1
The idea of one body acquiring usage liscences of all copyrighted media in existence and negotiating universal fair use with everyone is a lil bit bizarre. Its the only way a government enforcement agency can legally do anything...
That's alot of hands in the pockets to act as a benificiary of in order to maintain "fair use" and prevent blocking of everything and I don't know how many people outside of the EU are going to want to do that considering EU privacy regulations (its contradictory)...
But we have to fuck ourselves over before we fix it so Ill just keep the popcorn until the government takes it away. The internet will break and people will go on to cutting onions to get around it--until a bigger mousetrap is set at least.
We can get around government blockades by using a little techy know how, but corporations could always just split our access into individually paid packages resembling cable TV, and I dunno if there'd be anything we could do about that.
And yeah captive audiences make alot of money for coporations and rights holders they have an incentive to make us pay for every step byte and pixel to the absolute max or completely cut us off oturight.
Its up to citizens and the regulators to ensure rights are balanced especially since government and other essential mandatory services are requiring internet connections to function at all...
Like in order for me to travel or use ID i need a 600 phone capable of NFC and a 45 dollar a month data plan -- or I cant receive government mandated medical services.
Only time will tell
it'll depend on what the CTRC hearings say as those rules and measures have not been written or implemented. The CTRC tends to err on community rights rather then individual rights so you could see a lot of bizarre regulations restricting free speech and reducing choice as to websites and media as well as liability for your postings (you are no different from the CBC online and subject to the same rules). The guidelines posted by the government are pretty vague and idealistic and often never followed. (imagine getting fined for your internet postings not following this book https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/t......html?lang=eng much like they do to CBC and Global)
Ive explained what the current broadcasting elements are in Canada as well as other "propagandist" canadian cultural protection mechanisms that are in place in previous journals so i wont re-iterate but link.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9857477/
My take on it is below but "DNS blocklists" and "custom biased search algorithms") are technically a failure and the government will learn the hard way in committee when the big multinationals tell Canada where to go and "audits" are not returning results. The only way to effectively "protect canadian culture" as the rules made in the 50s say is to go total North Korea on the net or re-write the Heritage Canada Rules for an open system (canadian terrestrial broadcasting is a closed loop).
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9877452/.