Posted on 06/24/2022 10:04:15 AM PDT by Loyalist
Canada could be on the cusp of a bizarre new era in which federal regulators will be empowered to figure out whether our online porn is sufficiently Canadian — and levy the requisite punishments if it isn’t.
Bill C-11 — the Liberal push to subject much of the internet to CRTC control — has passed the House of Commons with NDP and Bloc Québécois support. Absent any major revisions by the Senate, the likes of Netflix, YouTube and even Instagram will soon be forced to subject their content to Canada’s famously onerous strictures on Canadian content.
But less discussed is how Bill C-11 will also apply to the internet’s vast wilderness of streaming pornography. The legislation applies to all programs broadcast via “online undertaking.”
The most controversial aspect of Bill C-11 is how it would force online streamers to “ensure the discoverability of Canadian programming.”
Right now, YouTube uses complex algorithms to pair users with content they might find interesting. Under C-11, those algorithms would be tweaked by federal mandate to disproportionately pair users with content that regulators have deemed to be sufficiently Canadian. Non-Canadian content, meanwhile, would need to be artificially hidden. As to what content qualifies as Canadian, everything from Netflix feature films to basement YouTubers would need to submit to the CRTC’s onerous “points system.” Under the system — which is already mandatory for TV channels — content creators must file detailed budgets with the CRTC to prove minimum quotas of Canadian actors, Canadian crew and even the quantity of production costs that were verifiably spent in Canada.
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All porn in Canada must be domestically sourced?
Each scene must have syrup and Labatt’s or Molson in it.
More hoser porn, eh?
Canada is turning into an open-air prison.
What are you going to “take off?”
Sounds like a bunch of Government Bureaucrats in Canada will be watching a bunch of porn to make sure it’s sufficiently Canadian...EH
Maybe they can do X rated versions of The Forest Rangers or King of Kensington.
This is NOT Babylon Bee….
Will it require all of the dialogue in French with English subtitles to please the Quebecois?
That should result in some blurry patches in some very interesting places.
Just place the bottle on the bedside table!
: )
Yeah, but, will they be allowed to block black porn and homosexual and trannie porn? If they ban that kind of porn, they’ll be labeled racist and homophobes, and the crowds will be on the streets protesting.
That’s Japanese porn…
Maple, not fig, leaves.
“All porn in Canada must be domestically sourced?”
And it must be bilingual and feature butt ugly leftist Quebecker skanks.
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