7 Decades of Change — What’s Worse or Harder

Part 3 of 7

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Government control and interference

We saw this with seatbelts and anti-spanking laws. It went to a whole new level with lockdown protocols that lawmakers who dictated them blatantly disregarded. The worst and most serious example of government interference and control is the Canadian Liberal government’s internet censorship bill.

The bill would give the CRTC power to control what Canadians are exposed to online by filtering our news and streaming feeds on apps like Netflix and TikTok. The government says bureaucrats would only use their new censorship powers to try to promote Canadian content. But C-11 gives them the tools to filter online content on any basis, not just according to whether something counts as “Canadian.”

Because the bill would force foreign content-providers to follow all kinds of new rules and regulations in order to enter the Canadian market some providers may decide, as Hulu has done, to simply block the Canadian market altogether instead of following cumbersome rules.

“Creators are going to wake up and find the kind of content that has previously been successful in an…