Canada is close to dictatorship?
The country is on its way to passing another scandalous law.
Canada may soon ban social networking sites. All because of a bill that will control your life by restricting the content you watch and imposing another. Nature trips and a child's matinee may soon be regulated by someone else.
Censorship and control
I recently had a personal encounter with censorship. I was preparing a task for my programmer, made a screencast, posted it to YouTube via a private link, and a few hours later received a message that it had been deleted. It was said that I had violated some confidential data by showing someone else's email. But you can't do the task of automating our customer service without it. And my friend from Toronto complained that she had posted videos of her children for grandparents, but the social network thought there was almost child pornography, so it also deleted the videos.
We live in a time when services, including paid services that we use, decide what we can and can't do. But the future is even worse because governments are interfering with social networks. There has been a fierce debate in the Canadian Parliament since 2020 about Bill C-11. It hasn't passed yet, but it has already passed its third reading in the Senate. That is, it is only a few steps away from passage, and then it will affect everyone in Canada. If there are no reactions, other countries will follow Canada's experience.
Bill C-11
Under the guise of helping Canadian performers and content creators, the government wants to be able to regulate services that it couldn't get to before. They are YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, etc. They want to be required to contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian content. In practice, users will have fewer of their favourite videos, series, and shows. Canadian content creators will have an easier time promoting themselves, but it will happen by limiting your preferences.
Supporters of the bill present their idea as an intention to support creative people from Canada. So that people know about Canadian content creators and can find them on the Internet. As if foreign streaming platforms prevent Canadians from promoting themselves, and without this bill, people will only watch American content. And all of this is bad for Canada's cultural industry.
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