I don't think it matters to them who wins the war, as long as there's more weapon orders.
The way I interpret it, they're going to put anything that's social media under the jurisdiction of the CRTC. This will give them the power to dictate stuff like CanCon requirements, but it'll also give them the power to deem content offensive and issue fines. The crtc recently admitted they don't give any consideration to charter concerns when they issue broadcasting fines. Moreover, the government has explicitly refused to limit rules to non user-generated content so potentially a provider could be fined based on a comment.
Michael Geist is a Canadian legal scholar who has been following the journey of bills c-11 and c-18. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Basically, we're on the verge of the end of the internet as we know it in Canada. What remains will need to be like cable TV -- measured, censor approved, likely incredibly corporate.
Michael Geist is a Canadian legal scholar who has been following the journey of bills c-11 and c-18. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/
Basically, we're on the verge of the end of the internet as we know it in Canada. What remains will need to be like cable TV -- measured, censor approved, likely incredibly corporate.
"tell me what a typical day in the life of a Canadian"
(Modified like a boss song)
"You chop your balls off and die?"
Heeeeell yeeeah.
(Modified like a boss song)
"You chop your balls off and die?"
Heeeeell yeeeah.
Black conservative perspective on YouTube has a couple great videos on this, and he's absolutely correct -- you can't burn everything to the ground and then complain there's no opportunities anywhere! Even if you don't go to jail for your actions, it has an effect on your community and that effect is organic, meaning you can't just delete that law because it's a law of physics.
Dealing with the Internet is one of the things I'm most concerned about in the world right now as my son ages. I have an entire chapter of my book dedicated to the topic titled "the internet is not your friend", because my parents warned me about it but many parents give their kids full access to unlimited internet from before they can even talk.
My plan for now is to have a computer on the living room TV so when he gets older he can go on the internet but we can see everything he does. I know eventually we'll need to give him more access, but I'm hoping we can help equip him fully before we do that, and that there's more to life than the internet beforehand.
My plan for now is to have a computer on the living room TV so when he gets older he can go on the internet but we can see everything he does. I know eventually we'll need to give him more access, but I'm hoping we can help equip him fully before we do that, and that there's more to life than the internet beforehand.
Unfortunately, with dear leader actively moving to regulate the internet as a broadcast medium., Canadian fediverse operators such as myself are facing a reality that we may have to shut down our websites because they aren't crtc mandated.
So we'll get the best of both worlds: state-sponsored propaganda crammed down our throats, and the one free communications medium being slammed into the dirt, ironically probably protecting all the American megacorps as long as they play ball.
This is what happens when you have leadership that doesn't really care about the country that they live in. Our glorious leader is more interested in impressing people from Southern California than northern Manitoba.
So we'll get the best of both worlds: state-sponsored propaganda crammed down our throats, and the one free communications medium being slammed into the dirt, ironically probably protecting all the American megacorps as long as they play ball.
This is what happens when you have leadership that doesn't really care about the country that they live in. Our glorious leader is more interested in impressing people from Southern California than northern Manitoba.
State funded media furious at being identified as state funded media -- it's 2023 if you identify as not state funded that should be enough!
Some people don't want to leave the cave. Once they leave, they cry about the lack of shackles, about the lack of shadows on the wall.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people desperate to breathe fresh air and see the sun.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people desperate to breathe fresh air and see the sun.
I tend to strongly agree with what you're saying here. One of the reasons why the early internet came up with so many really cool things is that the people who were making those things were doing so because they enjoyed making those things and wanted to, not because they knew there was a Payday at the end of it. In fact, for a lot of the people there was no payday at the end of it.
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)
Once all the stuff is being done for money, it changes into an optimization problem: instead of there being unlimited ways to do a thing, there becomes one way to do a thing, whatever way happens to make the most money. When you hear people who end up doing something that they enjoyed doing as a hobby, and they talk about doing it professionally you can tell that the character of the thing has changed. Whereas previously they could play around with things and try out different things, suddenly you have to do things in a way that's going to make money. I think that's where you see some of the breakdowns of YouTubers who start off doing things for fun, quickly transition into doing a professionally, and then find that they're stuck doing something like nostalgia reviews for the next 30 years.
Everyone needs to find a way to eat. On the other hand, not everything that you need to do in life needs to end in a paycheck. For me, makes more sense for a lot of stuff to be done using your own resources because you want to, from your day job.
Of course, all of fbxl.net is a monument to all the things I did for fun that I didn't get paid for (and even though I sell copies of the graysonian ethic, there will never be a day that I become profitable on that project)
No. By engaging with Canada it ends up being under the banner of the law. Otherwise they couldn't force Google and Facebook to follow their edicts.
According to the Canadian Constitution, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights
> You can justify all sorts of crazy policies, like eugenics, in professional / liberal circles, as long as you couch them in the right words and values.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.
I love what you said here because it encapsulates exactly what I believe. As long as you can stick a few smiley face stickers on something terrible, these people will support all kinds of objectively horrible policies because they sound nice.
It's something we all have to be careful of, especially with things we agree with, that someone can twist things that are fundamentally good into things that are fundamentally evil by getting people to turn off their brains and stop thinking for themselves.