Greg Wycliffe - Trudeau wants Facebook to PAY for Canadian Democracy

Bill C18 is a new piece of legislation introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that wants to charge big tech companies for simply posting news links on their big tech platforms. This bill is total trash and we re seeing just how bad it is because Google and Facebook have basically told the Canadian government to go f themselves.

00:00:00.000 this is not just a dispute over advertising it's also a dispute over democracy trudeau here is

00:00:07.600 talking about bill c18 which is a new piece of legislation where the canadian government wants

00:00:12.960 to charge big tech money for simply posting news links on their big tech platforms of course this

00:00:21.120 bill is total trash and we're seeing just how bad it is because google and facebook has basically

00:00:26.800 told the canadian government to go f themselves but i really want to drive home just how stupid 0.63

00:00:32.320 this is why should facebook and google have to pay for canadian news for those who don't know since

00:00:39.040 2018 canadian news has been subsidized by taxpayer money to the tune of half a billion dollars this

00:00:45.680 is something that the federal government is already paying for with your tax dollars unfortunately

00:00:51.040 facebook has just refused to recognize any sort of responsibility it might have in contributing to

00:00:59.120 a democracy that has uh democracies in general that have contributed to its success as a as a company

00:01:06.400 as a corporation there you have it folks according to the leader of our country canada can only have

00:01:11.840 a democracy if facebook and google pay us money how does that work i mean maybe the responsibility of

00:01:19.280 the democracy would be on facebook and google if justin trudeau was talking about censorship but

00:01:23.840 that's not what he's talking about how much do you think google and facebook charges ctv news to post

00:01:29.920 their links on their platform they don't charge it's absolutely free think of it this way you ever go

00:01:36.320 to like a market like a farmer's market and there's all the different stalls that's what facebook or google

00:01:42.160 is like they have this big farmer's market and they're like hey it's absolutely free for you ctv

00:01:48.880 news or cbc news whatever canadian news outlet to set up a stall to to sell your lemonade you can

00:01:55.440 set up and sell your lemonade for free at our market and then what is the canadian government

00:02:00.960 saying you should have to pay us money to show up and set up a lemonade stand you should have to pay

00:02:08.160 us money for even being here guess what canadian news media your news sucks okay you don't know how 0.56

00:02:15.520 to make a profit with your news because it's so piss poor and it's obviously compromised because

00:02:20.960 it's subsidized by the canadian federal government so it's not even real news anymore you know i would

00:02:26.080 say that's just a you problem but because a well-functioning news media is integral to democracy

00:02:32.560 it's kind of a problem for the entire country trudeau's already undermined the integrity of the

00:02:37.840 canadian news by throwing a boatload of cash at journalists and with bill c11 he basically wants to

00:02:44.000 try and control the big tech algorithms and with this latest bill c18 he wants to get money back

00:02:49.200 from big tech and it's going to result in major challenges for canadian people to get any news and

00:02:55.440 information online then he has the audacity to talk about the integrity of our democracies and big tech

00:03:01.280 isn't doing enough for canadian democracy that's your job bud really hope this guy trips and falls

00:03:07.680 accidentally at the top of the cn tower

Greg Wycliffe - July 06, 2023

Trudeau wants Facebook to PAY for Canadian Democracy

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