Private businesses that aren’t interested in distributing this movie. What’s the problem? I thought we were in favour of private businesses making their own business decisions here. Should they be forced to distribute it?
Anyone ready to start “Radio Free Canada”?
“Private businesses that aren’t interested in distributing this movie. What’s the problem?”
Because they have a monopoly on the distribution of information.
Monopolies, in the fashion of Teddy Roosevelt, ought to be broken up.
Speaking to your general premise, which applies primarily to the United States, not Canada, you are being disingenuous and are mistaken:
1. In the USA, these businesses are not private companies; they are publicly-traded corporations, regulated by the SEC. You, like so many, conflate operating in the private sector with being a private company. IPO = Initial Public Offering. (I dare you to tell the SEC these are private companies, and that the SEC has no authority over them. I dare you!)
2. The FTC and FCC also have regulatory power over such businesses.
3. In the case of social media corporations, they are specifically regulated by the CDA Section 230.
None of the Federal agencies are enforcing their powers over these corporations, which are committing corporate malfeasance (shareholder stock value loss due to politically-motivated decisions and scandals) and consumer fraud (selective and deceptive application of the terms of service, a legal contract, upon customers based upon their socio-political speech) - but those regulations are nevertheless on the books.
Reigning in these growing monopolies and oligopolies does not even require invoking anti-trust regulations; it only requires applying the laws as written. But the Deep State and the UniParty want conservatives and Christians deplatformed.
We do not have a free market; we have a massively-regulated market - but the largest and wealthiest corporations have the money and power to game and bribe the system to their extreme advantage.
When (If) we have a truly free market, devoid of thousands of regulations that stifle the truly private companies, preventing them from being competitive, then you will have a valid point. As it is, you are just another pseudo-libertarian spouting shallow sophistry.
If you are so enamored of having powerful businesses destroy the freedoms of private citizens, then lobby to have these regulations revoked - and these regulatory bodies dissolved.