[10] The Government is Now Going After Me...
2As you know, I've spoken at length about Bill C-11, now called the Online Streaming Act. The thing is, that isn't even close to the Canadian governments war on the internet.
In actuality, there is currently a three pronged war on the open internet. The second prong is Bill C-18 or Canada's Link Tax bill. While I do post video's on YouTube, my main source of traffic revolves around my website at freezenet.ca. Thanks to the link tax, I could very easily be hurt just like YouTubers are about to get hurt by the Online Streaming Act.
For those who are curious about the text of the bill, a while ago, I published a full analysis of this here: https://www.freezenet.ca/canadas-link-tax-bill-c-18-tabled-our-analysis/ (there are links that point to the original text of the bill).
In the video, I mention numbers about how much money medium sized players will get. If you are asking how I arrived at those numbers, my research into this can be found here: https://www.freezenet.ca/pbo-may-have-overestimated-financial-benefits-of-bill-c-18-by-50/
If you are wondering about the fiasco about how the CRTC blatantly ignored my questions, you can check out my documentation here: https://www.freezenet.ca/crtc-ignores-freezenet-reporter-after-claiming-to-have-an-open-door-policy/
At any rate, I hope that the way I built my website will withstand this attack. Otherwise, things could get problematic for my website as I work on just trying to survive this onslaught. Either way, I hope you got a better idea of what this bill is about and the real life consequences that seem to be looming throughout it all.
00:00 Intro
00:07 Previous Coverage of Bill C-11/Online Streaming Act
00:39 Canada's 3 Pronged Approach in their war on the internet
00:48 What Bill C-18 is
01:06 The false accusations by the bill supporters about the bills opponents
02:00 The problems with the bill
02:07 Problem 1: News outlets can't back out
03:50 Problem 2: Section 27 (Eligible News Outlets)
06:40 What is "a particular topic"?
07:27 I asked the CRTC, the CRTC ignored me
08:00 The 2 plausible outcomes of Bill C-18
08:05 Plausible outcome 1: Platforms drops news links in Canada
09:43 Plausible outcome 2: Platforms pay for news links
13:42 Everyone gets hurt no matter what
14:00 I'll attempt to survive this
14:18 Outro
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