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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“Eh, there’s a ton of hot chicks in Montréal...”
You’ve obviously been far more fortunate in your travels than I have.
I recall there being a mouse in their beers…
I got caught by this with non-porn. An agent friend arranged to send my spec script to James D. Parriott for one of his TV shows. My friend mailed on Tuesday and Parriott called him on Thursday to ask about my credits. The main issue was that I wasn’t Canadian, and there were contract rules for what percentage of the crew had to be Canadian.
See, you get it…
Sven and Ole and Lena would all approve. (Said in a proper Norwegian accent.)
And must start Margaret Trudeau?
I thought that was Second City tv, meaning Chicago?…
Peter Marshall: How many men on a hockey team?
Paul Lynde: About half!
I’m just glad everyone’s right to carry was recognized *before* the Roe v. Wade riots.
They want to make sure its all Canadian Beavers.
An Old King Clancy?
And all porn stars must be wearing beaver fur trooper hats and drinking Labatt Blue.
Royal Canadian Mounted Pornstars.
Porn is basically an extension of one of the world’s oldest profession....prostitution.
It’s never going away and not matter what Canada does, they are not going to be able to stop it.
That was not my experience in my times there.
I’d do it with Cobie Smulders…
Obviously a precedent to ban anything else un-Canadian... like rational freedoms.
Our U.S. lawmakers will laud the positive results Canada will have gleaned, and seek to ‘align’ with this dubious idea.
Legislative ‘Covid’.
A global thing, I feel it coming.
I worked there for three years, so speaking with authority...
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