This subject seems to be particularly difficult for ordinary folk who are not experts to understand.
I don’t think that I can rely on my old school home-delivered Globe and Mail to help me understand the Government’s plans to regulate the content and ‘discoverability’ of online information and entertainment services. The ability of traditional Canadian news media seem to me to be compromised by subsidies and their financial interests.
What do I think I understand? The Government in a very non-transparent way, in consultation with it’s preferred ‘stakeholders’, means to regulate as much online activity as it can, including enterprises and individuals operating outside of Canada, in order to influence content and to harvest revenue that can be used to subsidize preferred Canadian and aboriginal enterprises.
It seems likely, reading between the lines, that the Government wants to exercise considerable control over the content that is available to Canadians, and the ‘visibility’ of that content, by establishing requirements and incentives that will make approved content more visible and, presumably, that will make non-approved content less visible to audiences.
I’d be interested to know whether there is a particular individual or ‘brains trust” that is not publicly acknowledged but that operates as the “wizard behind the curtain”, whose vision provides much of the direction to the Government agenda for online information and streaming. I assume that few if any Members of Parliament and Senators understand the agenda they are approving. (Maybe I am only projecting my ignorance.)
There seems to be increasing impetus from governments and supra-national organizations to promote the idea that “misinformation” is a threat to public order and safety.
I am concerned that an essentially opaque system of regulation can be used to censor and impose visibility filtering on alternative information sources.
A final question: Could the legislation be used to regulate the content on a platform such as Substack?
This subject seems to be particularly difficult for ordinary folk who are not experts to understand.
I don’t think that I can rely on my old school home-delivered Globe and Mail to help me understand the Government’s plans to regulate the content and ‘discoverability’ of online information and entertainment services. The ability of traditional Canadian news media seem to me to be compromised by subsidies and their financial interests.
What do I think I understand? The Government in a very non-transparent way, in consultation with it’s preferred ‘stakeholders’, means to regulate as much online activity as it can, including enterprises and individuals operating outside of Canada, in order to influence content and to harvest revenue that can be used to subsidize preferred Canadian and aboriginal enterprises.
It seems likely, reading between the lines, that the Government wants to exercise considerable control over the content that is available to Canadians, and the ‘visibility’ of that content, by establishing requirements and incentives that will make approved content more visible and, presumably, that will make non-approved content less visible to audiences.
I’d be interested to know whether there is a particular individual or ‘brains trust” that is not publicly acknowledged but that operates as the “wizard behind the curtain”, whose vision provides much of the direction to the Government agenda for online information and streaming. I assume that few if any Members of Parliament and Senators understand the agenda they are approving. (Maybe I am only projecting my ignorance.)
There seems to be increasing impetus from governments and supra-national organizations to promote the idea that “misinformation” is a threat to public order and safety.
I am concerned that an essentially opaque system of regulation can be used to censor and impose visibility filtering on alternative information sources.
A final question: Could the legislation be used to regulate the content on a platform such as Substack?