Juno News - May 01, 2023


Trudeau SEIZES the internet! Goes full TYRANT!

Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
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Bill C-63 Justin Trudeau Juan Pablo Rodriguez Lauren Gunter Dean Allison Drop
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Bill C-11 is now the law in this country, and Canada will never be the same again. Through the power of the government-appointed CRTC, Justin Trudeau will now be able to control what Canadians see and read online, which means he can control what Canadian think online.

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00:00:00.000 It's official. Bill C-11 is now the law in this country, and Canada will never be the same again.
00:00:13.540 Through the power of the woke, government-appointed CRTC, Justin Trudeau will now be able to control
00:00:19.180 what Canadians see and read online, which of course means he can control what Canadians think
00:00:24.060 online. Now, despite receiving hundreds of thousands of emails from Canadians and petitions
00:00:29.220 with hundreds of thousands of signatures, the Canadian Senate, the House of Sober Second Thought,
00:00:34.940 just simply couldn't be bothered anymore to stand up for Canadian freedoms. And Justin Trudeau's
00:00:40.060 ultimate goal of building the Great Firewall of Canada is one step closer to completion. You won't
00:00:45.260 be able to see this wall, but take my word for it, you're about to feel it big time. But what if I
00:00:50.120 were to tell you that Bill C-11 is just the tip of the iceberg for what's coming next for Canadians?
00:00:54.580 Bill C-11, it's just the appetizer. It's just a palate cleanser for Canadians, because what's 0.99
00:00:59.200 coming next? The main course is going to be a whole lot worse. Drop a like in the video,
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00:01:06.540 the episode is this. Are you using a VPN yet? And if not, what are you doing? Let me know in the
00:01:12.700 comments, and let's get into it. You all know what C-11 is really about. The government tells you it's
00:01:17.180 about promoting Canadian movies, music, and television on Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify. But really,
00:01:23.160 what's going on here is the federal government wants to force-feed Canadians substandard and unwatchable
00:01:28.380 legacy media on YouTube and other social media platforms, and suppress high-quality independent
00:01:33.500 journalism that challenges this government. But by doing so, the government will also be censoring
00:01:37.860 your own social media posts, whether they be of high quality or not. Not only has the government
00:01:42.360 given themselves the power to control what you see online, they're also creating a closed-off pool of
00:01:47.560 Canadian digital talent that will protect them from any independent competition. They have destroyed
00:01:52.400 the idea of a free and open digital media marketplace to protect a small group of government-approved
00:01:58.400 legacy media digital talent that is frankly horrendous. We're talking less ratioed, more insufferable
00:02:05.040 reruns of Family Feud Canada. Now, Pablo Rodriguez, Justin Trudeau, and other Liberal MPs have routinely
00:02:10.860 tried to reassure Canadians that the government is not trying to regulate your user-generated content.
00:02:16.060 That would be anything you post online of any substance whatsoever.
00:02:19.160 We have been very clear, Bill C-11 applies to platforms, not to users.
00:02:24.800 Bill C-11 clearly outlines that the regulator will have no power to regulate the everyday use of social
00:02:33.440 media by Canadians.
00:02:35.560 I guess, very briefly, it's really disappointing to see the misinformation back on C-11 with respect
00:02:44.060 to user-generated content. It is not part of C-11.
00:02:48.060 That it's already very explicit that user-generated content is not affected by this piece of legislation.
00:02:56.060 And everybody knows that user-generated content was never the intention here. It was the intention about getting to the web giants.
00:03:03.060 My understanding is from reading this bill, speaking to the various officials, that content user-generation is not going to be impacted at all.
00:03:11.060 But everything the government has done since introducing Bill C-11 would say otherwise.
00:03:16.060 When two Trudeau-appointed Liberal Senators tried to get Canada's El Censor, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Juan Pablo Rodriguez,
00:03:25.060 to accept a Senate amendment excluding user-generated content from Bill C-11,
00:03:30.060 Rodriguez flatly rejected the amendment and said he would not be accepting any amendments to the bill that would fundamentally change the bill.
00:03:38.060 Are there amendments that you've already looked at that you have decided to reject?
00:03:42.060 Well, we'll see when the bill comes back because I can't...it's in the Senate.
00:03:46.060 I don't think the Senate would be so...
00:03:47.060 They've talked a lot about what those amendments are.
00:03:49.060 But there are amendments that have zero impact on the bill and others that may have some and those who will not accept them.
00:03:56.060 Despite rejecting an amendment that would exclude your content from being regulated by the government and leaving a door open to regulate that content,
00:04:04.060 Rodriguez tries to reassure Canadians they still don't want to regulate that content.
00:04:08.060 Oh, I'm sure most Canadians believe you, Pablo.
00:04:11.060 C-11 will subject user content to regulation. Will it?
00:04:16.060 No.
00:04:17.060 How can you say that?
00:04:18.060 It's nowhere in the bill.
00:04:20.060 This bill is very simple.
00:04:22.060 It's asking streamers, Disney and Netflix, that we all love, to contribute to Canadian culture.
00:04:27.060 First thing.
00:04:28.060 Second thing, it's going to showcase...it's asking them to showcase more of who we are.
00:04:33.060 Our stories, our own productions, music, film, television. That's it.
00:04:36.060 And I'll be very clear, I'm sending a policy direction soon to the CRTC.
00:04:40.060 It's going to be even more clear in that policy.
00:04:42.060 But this is about the platforms.
00:04:44.060 It's never about the users.
00:04:45.060 It's not you and I, for example, sitting in front of a screen.
00:04:48.060 Or it's not about the things you or I post online.
00:04:50.060 The line from the government seems to be, give us the power to regulate your social media posts.
00:04:55.060 And we promise, we'll tell the CRTC not to regulate your social media posts.
00:05:00.060 But you have to give us the power first.
00:05:02.060 One of the reasons why I'm so confident that this government is most certainly going to abuse their power,
00:05:07.060 is because they've already been trying to do it for the past three years.
00:05:11.060 Thanks to a parliamentary written question from Conservative MP Dean Allison,
00:05:15.060 we now know that for the past three years, government departments like the Public Health Agency of Canada
00:05:20.060 have been trying to pressure Twitter and Facebook to not only remove hateful comments, nasty posts,
00:05:27.060 but also news articles from the Toronto Sun.
00:05:31.060 In September of 2021, a director of communications for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
00:05:36.060 tried to get Twitter and Facebook to suppress the links of a Toronto Sun column written by Lauren Gunter.
00:05:41.060 Well, apparently the government didn't like this Toronto Sun article very much because it had serious errors of fact,
00:05:47.060 risking undermining public confidence in the independence of the board.
00:05:50.060 So because an article risked undermining public confidence in the board,
00:05:54.060 the government decided that they should try and pressure Facebook and Twitter to remove links to the article.
00:05:59.060 And apparently social media teams at the Public Health Agency of Canada submitted at least 20 requests to Facebook and Twitter
00:06:06.060 to have hateful comments removed from the platform altogether.
00:06:11.060 These hateful comments contained, quote,
00:06:13.060 offensive language that the government really didn't want people to see.
00:06:16.060 And it looks like on three occasions between 2020 and 2021,
00:06:20.060 Twitter actually did remove the comments that the government wanted censored.
00:06:24.060 Environment Canada and Innovation Canada also did the same thing,
00:06:27.060 and they were doing this throughout 2021.
00:06:30.060 So the government, without passing any legislation,
00:06:33.060 was already trying to do what they're doing now to social media companies.
00:06:37.060 So let me try and get this straight here.
00:06:39.060 The government for years have been trying to censor our conversations,
00:06:43.060 our comments and our social media discussion.
00:06:45.060 But now that they have the power to do exactly that,
00:06:48.060 they're not going to do the same thing.
00:06:50.060 The government must have really low expectations for the intelligence of Canadians
00:06:54.060 for them to expect us not to realize what they're really up to.
00:06:57.060 That's fine, we'll just trust Justin Trudeau to write a policy directive
00:07:00.060 telling them not to do exactly this.
00:07:03.060 But like I said, C11, it's just the palate cleanser.
00:07:06.060 There's two more pieces of legislation that are still to come
00:07:09.060 that will complete the Justin Trudeau China-style firewall across this country.
00:07:14.060 Bill C18 is a money grab for failing legacy media giants
00:07:19.060 that no Canadians can afford to read anymore,
00:07:21.060 and no Canadians want to read anymore.
00:07:23.060 Basically, C18 is going to force big tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter
00:07:29.060 and Twitter to pay legacy media giants every time those legacy media giants
00:07:35.060 post a news article on Facebook or Twitter.
00:07:38.060 Now, if that makes no sense to you, you're not alone.
00:07:40.060 Everyone else thinks it's completely absurd.
00:07:42.060 The government wants Facebook to pay Globe and Mail
00:07:45.060 every time the Globe and Mail makes a post on Facebook.
00:07:48.060 That would be like forcing the company that built the highway
00:07:51.060 to pay every driver every time that driver uses the company's highway.
00:07:56.060 But what's the desired outcome of a bill like this,
00:07:58.060 given that most Canadians use social media to get their news?
00:08:01.060 Facebook, for example, has just threatened to outright block any news company
00:08:04.060 that wants to post Canadian news articles on Facebook if they have to pay them.
00:08:08.060 What would that do?
00:08:09.060 Well, it's simple.
00:08:10.060 It would force Canadians to rely simply on legacy media old brand names
00:08:14.060 like the ones that are failing and the ones that are paid off by Trudeau to get their news.
00:08:19.060 So by forcing tech giants to suppress news links,
00:08:22.060 they're forcing Canadians to revert to old habits to get news.
00:08:25.060 They will end up going to government approved legacy media sites
00:08:29.060 that never hold the government to account.
00:08:31.060 But the online harms bill is perhaps even worse.
00:08:35.060 The government wants to legislate and criminalize online hate speech,
00:08:39.060 nasty tweets, mean comments, that sort of thing.
00:08:43.060 They want to make it illegal to write mean tweets.
00:08:46.060 Now, what is an example of this hate speech that could get you a criminal charge
00:08:49.060 for a Facebook post or a Twitter reply?
00:08:51.060 It's anything that challenges the far left woke narrative,
00:08:55.060 that criticizes radical gender ideology,
00:08:57.060 that takes aim at critical race theory,
00:09:00.060 that doesn't promote the idea that Canada is some racist genocidal state.
00:09:04.060 Today, as we all know, that is what is considered hate speech
00:09:07.060 by these woke censors that are trying to ruin our freedoms.
00:09:11.060 And that is what is coming because the Liberal government promised
00:09:14.060 to introduce this piece of legislation once C-11 is already in place.
00:09:19.060 And if you want to know just how bad this hate speech legislation is really going to get,
00:09:23.060 look no further than our friends across the pond in the British Isles and in Ireland.
00:09:27.060 In England, it is now routine to have the cops show up at your door
00:09:31.060 if you post a nasty, mean comment on Twitter or Facebook.
00:09:34.060 What did it need to come to?
00:09:38.060 Tell us why you escalated it to this level.
00:09:40.060 Because I don't understand.
00:09:42.060 I posted something that he posted.
00:09:44.060 You come to arrest me, you don't arrest him.
00:09:46.060 Why has it come to this?
00:09:47.060 Why am I in cuffs?
00:09:48.060 Because there's something he shared, then I shared.
00:09:50.060 Because someone has been caused, obviously, anxiety based upon your social media post.
00:09:57.060 And that's why you've been arrested.
00:09:59.060 And in Ireland, the government over there has just introduced a bill that would make it a criminal offence
00:10:04.060 to possess government-determined hateful content on any of your digital devices.
00:10:10.060 To possess hateful content.
00:10:12.060 Not to share it.
00:10:13.060 Not to send it privately.
00:10:15.060 Just to have it on your phone.
00:10:17.060 It is a criminal offence to prepare or possess material that is likely to incite violence or hatred
00:10:23.060 against a person or a group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics.
00:10:29.060 And just for good measure, the burden of proof when it comes to hateful content conveniently shifts to the accused, not the prosecution.
00:10:38.060 You would now have to prove to the government that the memes on your phone are not intended to incite hatred of a specific group.
00:10:44.060 This is historic in Canada.
00:10:46.060 This is a full-blown assault on our rights and freedoms as Canadians.
00:10:50.060 The government for the past three years got their feet wet by learning that they could force us to stay in our homes
00:10:55.060 and demanded us to do whatever they wanted.
00:10:57.060 But now, the government are just getting started.
00:10:59.060 Canadian history textbooks will no doubt judge harshly the leadership we've had in this country over the past few years.
00:11:05.060 But they will also judge how we the people responded to these outright assaults on our freedoms.
00:11:10.060 We in Canada have been promised freedom.
00:11:13.060 The right to freely express ourselves how we see fit.
00:11:17.060 But all we have been given by our leadership is full-blown tyranny.
00:11:21.060 Alright everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:11:23.060 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:11:25.060 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is Ratioed.