Bill C-11

Summary: Senate passed Bill C-11, enabling CRTC to regulate user content and promote "officially Canadian" content. Exceptions in 4.2(2) may lead to regulation of user-uploaded content on YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok. OpenMedia urges Heritage Minister to prevent user content regulation and respect users' choices. The Senate has passed Bill C-11, known as the Online Streaming...

Consumer advocate and non-profit organization OpenMedia reported late Thursday that the House of Commons had passed several amendments to Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. However, Members of Parliament (MPs) rejected a crucial amendment that would have protected Canadian Internet users. Amendment 3, proposed for Section 4.2 of Bill C-11, aimed to narrow the bill's...

The Senate's completed its review of Bill C-11 today, adding several amendments that effectively protect user-uploaded content from CRTC regulation

Google is looking to raise awareness for the bill, which could significantly impact online streaming platforms and the Canadians who use them

Scott initially offered assurances that user content was off the table, but ultimately admitted that the bill would give the CRTC regulatory authority over it

The newly-minted Twitter CEO was previously unaware of Ottawa's proposed plans to regulate online streaming and social media platforms

Earlier this week, Google published a blog post speaking out against Bill C-11 and saying that it could "disadvantage the Canadian creators"

Bill C-11 could force platforms like YouTube to serve content based on whether or not it is "Candian" enough instead of users' preferences and interests

One TikTok executive said Bill C-11 not only fails to protect Canadian content creators from regulation but also puts them in harm's way. 

Some of Disney's productions currently don't qualify as "Canadian" despite being made in Canada, with a Canadian cast and crew, and telling a Canadian story. 

YouTuber J.J. McCullough recently opposed the bill in the Parliament.

The regulator simply plans on forcing platforms like YouTube to manipulate algorithms to satisfy specific demands instead of taking a wrench to them directly.