Is censorship in Canada in retreat?
What's going on with the Canadian Content Act.
Not so long ago there was a really heated debate in Canada, which overshadowed even the talk about potential Chinese interference in the election of the prime minister: censorship loomed over Canada, but it did became real.
In March, supporters and opponents of the bill "promoting Canadian singer-songwriters" battled in Parliament. In 2020, the first attempt was made to "push" this bill through Parliament, but the 2021 elections cut it short.
The second was better: Pablo Rodriguez, the Liberal Party Minister of Heritage, introduced the bill in February 2022, and no matter how hard the Conservative Party fought against it, they were unable to do anything, the law passed.
A month ago, the law regulating broadcast corporations like Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube went into effect. Censorship finally became real. We explain in detail why in our article about this law.
As originally conceived, even simple videos of ordinary YouTube accounts were subject to regulation, but not until now: the government, which promoted this law, calls for the exclusion ordinary users of social networks in this law.
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