Trudeau wants to regulate what you post online
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Summary
Bill C-10 is a piece of legislation that was introduced by Heritage Minister Stephen Guubo that could see the government get involved in regulating user generated content (UGC) on social media sites like TikTok, YouTube, and TikTok. The government says it has good intentions, but critics say it opens the door to more government control over the internet.
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The Liberal government wants to give itself the power to regulate, to censor, this video.
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And all videos like it, posted by me, sure, but by you, by anyone else, by any Canadian.
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Bill C-10, a piece of legislation that's been put forward by Heritage Minister Stephen Guaubo,
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I guarantee you it's only going to become more controversial in the days and weeks ahead, as it should.
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we got a lot of problems with this piece of legislation geared towards the CRTC,
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dealing with telecommunications issues that actually, based on this legislation,
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allows the government to give powers to the CRTC to poke around into both video content
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put up on places like YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter, and so forth, by news agencies,
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They actually made a revision to the legislation just a few days ago at the Heritage Committee
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Now, the Liberal government and Minister Guaubo, their offices say,
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look, we have some good intentions, there are reasons behind this, and so forth,
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but a whole bunch of experts in these fields say,
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I mean, this just opens the door to a lot of concerns
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when it comes to, basically, the government getting involved in regulating the internet,
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I think a lot of people consider just chatting on social media,
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and chatting on social media increasingly means putting up pictures, memes, videos,
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So, people look at that as really just the virtual version of them
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hanging out at the coffee shop, at the bar, what have you,
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sitting around the kitchen table, shooting the breeze,
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and giving their thoughts on the sports game, or on politics of the day, and so forth.
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But, increasingly, people are finding, well, hold on a second.
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No, they're now trying to regulate this, and treat it like it's something different.
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Stephen Guaubo also talking about other regulations,
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and different pieces of legislation potentially coming down the pipes
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Look, do we need more regulation of the internet?
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Is there more inappropriate behavior, and so forth, going on on the internet online?
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They should govern themselves accordingly, and so forth.
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Other people, perhaps, should just not have so low of a barometer of offense.
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And, most importantly, there are already laws, as there should be,
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concerning libel, and defamation, and copyright, and other illegal content that people may post.
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And, the authorities are already in power to act upon that.
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And, one already has legal rights when it comes to things that are being,
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that are happening online, when it comes to issues just like defamation and libel.
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Well, I think what's going on in the public discussion
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is more people are waking up to what's going on with this legislation