Commentary
The Canadian government’s campaign for complete control over what you can hear, see, and say is rolling like a platoon of tanks across what once were the wide open spaces of the internet.
It’s not enough that its Online Streaming Act puts all audio and visual content under the sweeping Sauron-like eye of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), notorious for its spoon-feeding of approved content to consumers who gag on its broccoli.
Nor is it enough that its Online News Act, which earned royal assent on June 22, and other mechanisms give that same CRTC the power to pry into the ongoings of the nation’s newsrooms, ponder their diversity, and approve how they spend money pried from the grasp of America’s web giants….