TAKE 5： Trudeau’s internet censorship only just begun (SOGTAKE5 ep2)
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Summary
Online safety legislation is on the horizon, and it s going to have a devastating effect on freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Canada. This is a take 5 short episode where we talk about the dangers of liberal censorship and what we need to do about it.
Transcript
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So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
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We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
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Hi, welcome back to Stand on Guard with David Creighton.
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This is another one of our shorts, our five minutes.
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This is a take five. This is a take five short, and this is where we talk about one particular issue.
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So let's take five, and let's talk about liberal censorship.
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That's what the liberal government is doing in this country.
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There's a bill on the horizon. It hasn't yet been numbered, but it's been named.
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It's the online safety bill, and this is going hand in hand with Bill C-11 and Bill C-28.
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And I think it's extremely important that we look at these things.
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It's going to suppress the popularity of videos, hurt creators' revenues.
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And this is going to have a very, very widespread consequence for a lot of people, a lot of people in this industry.
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But we're basically talking about, you know, three kinds of bills.
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So we already have the Online Streaming Act, which is passed.
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This is essentially, I call it the Internet extortion bill,
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because it's going to force big social media outlets to pay news agencies for use of stories.
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Now, a lot of news agencies, the big media outlets like this,
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because they know they can afford the legal and the litigation that's going to go before this actually takes place at media outlets.
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Like I know Post Media has already said that they want this to happen.
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But new media doesn't, because they really can't afford to litigate.
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And so it's going to have a very, very bad effect.
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And the one that's coming, though, this is the one, if you think it's bad now,
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if you think Trudeau has already come down hard on freedom of speech in this country,
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the online safety bill is going to be absolutely catastrophic.
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Now, I wrote a column this week in Human Events about this,
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and we are really way ahead on the power curve on this.
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We're ahead of media, with the exception of at least one other independent media,
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But very few people in the national mainstream media are even acknowledging this is a problem.
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And even in new media, people aren't aware that this next bill is on the horizon.
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It was once named Bill C-36, and it was not passed because it was introduced just as Parliament recessed in June 2021.
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And then, of course, there was a fall election.
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It's being resurrected by this time, not the Justice Minister,
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but the Heritage Minister as part of this whole Internet onslaught,
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this attack on freedom of speech by Justin Trudeau.
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Because it's going to talk about some very controversial matters that are integral,
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It's going to ban disinformation and hate speech.
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And that's the very problem with this bill, is it doesn't define either hate speech or disinformation.
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In fact, it says it can't define disinformation because that would be problematic.
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So therefore, we are left with the government deciding what is hate speech and what is disinformation.
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But it's going to mean subject matter, areas of interest that are contrary to the public policy of this liberal Trudeau government.
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It is going to help Trudeau clamp down even further on free speech.
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You don't like something Trudeau does, it becomes hate speech.
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You report the news objectively, that becomes disinformation if it doesn't sync with what the talking points of the liberal party are.
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Now, this is going to be a huge problem for Canadians.
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We've got to acknowledge that this is going to be a huge problem.
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Now, at the Liberal Convention, I want to also bring this up.
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What they're really mad about is that the Globe and Mail published a story based on a whistleblower source within CSIS.
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They did not name that source because obviously that person not only fears for his job, but potentially his life.
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And as I pointed out previously, this is going to be absolutely devastating.
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And I want to point to the work of a law professor at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, who has who fought Bill C-36.
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And he's gearing up to fight this legislation, this online safety legislation, because it is nothing less than the muzzling of a free press, the muzzling of a free Internet in this country.
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And very few people, as I said, are fighting this.
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I want to have Professor Geist on my show in the next few weeks to discuss this, because this, I think, is the most important issue facing Canada right now.
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Are we going to have the freedom to continue to criticize this government?
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Are we going to have the freedom to voice our opinions without the government telling us we're voicing disinformation or hate speech?
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Read the column that's in Human Events this week that I've already cited.
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Read everything you can about this bill, because it is going to decimate our ability to speak freely in this country.
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And if we don't, we're going to be losing our freedom in this country.
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So for Stand on Guard with David Crayton, I'm David Crayton.
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I want you to take more than five to consider the dangers to free speech in this country and exactly where we are going.
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If we don't consider where we're going, we're not going to have a future.