Greg Wycliffe - Trudeau wants Facebook to PAY for Canadian Democracy

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

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

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