Canada’s Plan to Control the Internet
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2023
- Canada passes Bill C-11 - regulating online content in a manner similar to radio and television broadcasting as a way of preferencing Canadian-produced content… sort of.
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This is great because Canadians are finally learning how legislation works in this country. Virtually all of our laws give too much power to someone under the guise of "But we would never use it that way..."
Copium
Remember during Covid when Trudeau used federal powers to break up the convoy and instate "martial law" to break up the protest? That was Canadia Lands 9/11 Patriot Act moment, where the pendulum swung toward authoritarianism. This is just corporate fascism rearing its head again. People need to wake up and demand their rights
That's how it works in the US also. We got a 2,200 page health care bill that didn't do any of the things that claimed to, and then a whole bunch of bureaucrats created another 18,000 pages worth of bureaucratic regulations on interpreting and enforcing the law which no one got to read until after it passed and no one had any say in the matter. In the US, it's best to assume that whatever the law is named publicly, their goal is to do the opposite and its effect will do the opposite. Patriot act was the greatest infringement of civil liberty since the war on drugs and the campaign finance reform act created political action committees which corporations and others could donate limitless dark money to, and the money could come from international corporations or even other countries that want to influence the election.
@@jerryzm3019 nah not copium. Elected officials pass bills that are very vague and hand them off to unelected bureaucrats who decide on how to enforce them in whatever way benefits them and the existing powers (large corporations and government institutions).
@@jerryzm3019 that makes no sense
I remember as an American student in a college film class, seeing a bunch of films made by the Canadian Film Board funding. I think it's cool that Canada funds projects made by Canadians, but I don't know how much value there is in insisting on it's "Canadaness." I mean, if Disney Marvel wanted to make a Wolverine movie set in Canada, I don't know that they deserve a funding grant for that, they have plenty of money and can make their own choices. But if a Canadian filmmaker needs some money to do his own project, and ti would employ mostly Canadian workers, then even if that project's _contents_ have nothing to do with Canada, I think they should get that grant (assuming all other factors are positive).
Hopefully we can get a fully Canadian Wolverine movie someday /s
those films were selected for funding on because of arbitrary qualities set by the board. Lots of original ideas may go in but only the same cookie cutter ideas come out. It's brutal
@@EndTikTokandTwitter well Logan is Canadian after all😅
as a canadian, do you actually want your tax money to go into pockets of big movie stars and film studios, most products of which you'll probably not end up watching?
Current candian laws would make it so that disney wouldnt get funding. The only rule currently is that people who make are certain % Canadian.
As someone who doesn't live in Canada or the US it's often quite hard to tell the difference between them. I've learned that many of the shows or bands I enjoy are actually products of Canada or had a close association with Canada like being filmed there, when I assumed they were American. There was just no indication of it unless you checked the credits carefully or it had a big PROUDLY PRODUCED IN CANADA label in the title crawl. I don't think it's that Canada exports no culture, it's just that US culture is so dominant that it just kind of absorbs Canadian culture. They're both very racially and culturally diverse countries with very similar accents, so telling if someone comes from Seattle or Toronto is practically impossible for a foreigner.
I think living in Canada is quite different than living in the USA, but I agree that the "pop culture" of both countries is virtually identical. (I'm Canadian, btw.)
A lot of stuff gets filmed here because we barely charge taxes to US productions and our labour rates in film production are less than half of what they are in the US. We're Netflix's sweat shop.
So much “ Americana” especially comedians and music comes from Canada.
@@ahobimo732yeah i from one from Hungary i rather would live in Canada if i were to choose, USA is too dangerous
@@regisegek4675 I completely agree. Canada is far from perfect, but I find the prospect of living in the USA right now quite terrifying.
"Worry not about the splinter in your neighbors eye until you've removed the 2x4 from your own" -Linus, Holy Wan Show 26:21
Friendlyjordies is a great example of someone that had a story(his house being firebombed) that absolutely went wild in the world. I didn't even know New South Wales existed before finding his videos, now I know more about their politics than countries closer to mine.
Funny you should use that example specifically because Australia happens to have an equivalent law.
@@toki002 We are pretty close in most regards, I mean hell we have the same plastic rainbow money.
Yep because it got popular within australia which has a similar law and then the algorithm fed it to more people
@@robloxpwnr7604 Australia invented plastic rainbow money and still makes it for a bunch of other nations, as far as I'm aware and can lazily Google.
Yeah, it’s been in Australian law for almost two years now, but ours is more focused on giving traditional press (Printed, TV priority rights) the leg up *cough* Murdoch Media. And it was introduced by our former conservative government (ironically called the Liberal Party).
Our current government (Labour, which is the liberal side with too much socialism, except for the greens), gave 0 to little push back. And it’s sad our best Journalist FriendlyJordies had to do the heavy lifting.
Our social media feeds are dominated by biased cherry picked facts from traditional press.
Same shit happened in Oz. Social media sites where FORCED to pay for big Australian media companies despite the social media company being a private company and already offering their services to them at a fair price i.e. for free.
Ahh, the corruption runs deep. Its in the blood by this point.
Canada copied the Australian media law, it's a good idea as it allows Australian and Canadian news and media companies to become less reliant on government grants. Even the most conservative newspapers in Canada such as the Financial Post rely on government grants to operate in the internet age.
I love Southparks representation of Canada. This is gonna turn out like the 'Canada on strike' episode where they just hurt themselves when all companies pull out.
honestly i think that would be the best move for companies. If most big companies pull out I don't see how they could keep the bill. Canadians would not be happy.
@@platonymousoogle and Facebook did it here (Australia) for a bit after our globally corrupt news media tried to fuck them
@@platonymousIf it doesn't work financially big companies will most likely stop serving Canada.
And yeah the funny part is that the most likely outcome is like in South Park where they just push it so far that they can't exactly go back and end up taking the L while trying to present it as a W.
This is exactly what happened on southpark
I don't watch South Park but as a Canadian I love the idea of companies just pulling out. Our government is being idiotic & needs to be put in their place by business just deciding to leave.
Tbh I've lost hope for Canada, our population keeps electing idiots & Canadians care about so much stupid stuff like LGBT pride, eco extremism, native issues. They are NPC's blindly walking into hole.
Hopefully a party like the PPC gets into power & can fix things.
Back in the 90s I remember the Canadian Content debate and its consequences. I remember how Bryan Adams, a quintessentially Canadian artist, released Waking Up the Neighbors and was told that he didn't qualify as Canadian content because he didn't have enough Canadians working on the album. I reckon this is going to go much the same way.
Poor Bryan Adams. He failed to have a successful career because of the lack of can-con designation. :(
(Sarcasm)
I mean, if the majority of the staff making the album wasn’t Canadian, it’s not Canadian content. If anything it would be more unfair if Bryan Adams *had* gotten public funding despite it not meeting the CanCon requirements. Adams isn’t any more or less Canadian than any other Canadian artist & he has to meet the same guidelines for CanCon funding like everyone else. Seems fair to me.
@@Electrolux219 Okay, that I have a problem with. I did then and I do now. To me it's not a matter of funding, it's a matter of classification. The CRTC is going to attach whatever conditions it wants before they dole out any money and there really isn't anything the rest of us can do about that. They're also going to take their sweet time doling out said money, and there isn't anything the rest of us can do about that either. However, it seems to me that if the artist, the content creator is Canadian, then the content is Canadian by definition, regardless of how many additional Canadians participated in the creation of said content. I understand wanting to promote Canadian talent and bring in good paying jobs for Canadians, and I am in favor of those things. But this is not the way.
@@downhillupside I'm sorry that you have a problem with the success of others. I wish that wasn't the case. Mayhaps you should talk to someone about that, yes?
@@michaeltyzuk7300 What are you even talking about? Did you miss my sarcasm note? Of course I don't have problem with Bryan Adams' success. I'm pointing out that he was successful despite can-con designation issues, and that this will be the case for Linus Media Group, as well (if that even becomes an issue).
As an American I get recommendation from Japan all of the time, most likely due to that most of the music I listen to is from there. So I think it is based on what you watch most, not where you are currently from.
Yes, that's how the recommendations *currently* work. It would seem they want to alter it so you would see some Canadian content before you saw things based on your viewing habits and likes/dislikes. Or perhaps bubbling Canadian content that fits your preferences above options from other countries. But that's the other problem, it doesn't specify how it could/should work and companies like google might just be grasping at straws when they try to comply and still satisfy their users.
It's a half-baked plan at best
I mean, yeah, I've lived in Argentina for the last 10 years of my life (born here, but left with my parents when I was a toddler and then came back, am currently 21), but for the last few years, I get almost no argentinian content and even barely any spanish speaking content, be it Spain or LATAM; and it's because I just mainly watch english speaking youtubers.
As it should be. I wouldnt want to be forced content that has less appeal to me, if I was Canadian I'd get a VPN.
There's something similar to this for traditional media here in NZ which is why you get NZ actors and things popping up in American films. eg the way of water credits ends with the logo of the NZ film commission.
Holywood comes here for the sweet tax breaks.
I don't see how this will work online...
Here I was thinking movie studios came for Weta and stayed for the incredible locations.
Australia passed the same sort of legislation last year. It's meant that large main stream media outlets get more coverage... and more money.
Canada is run by old people have no idea how the kodsr world works and refuse to do anything to take Canada into the next gen. Canada is an oil dady that acts like it's not.
@@ConnorHammond They come for $$ and stay for the other two ;)
Exactly. It’s like if Canada demands it & gets away with it, then I could see other countries following suit.
i didn't vote for this
Other countries!? You say that like Canada has any relevancy or any influence on a global level.
You mean like Australia where they already have a similar law?
@@ryanschaff2507 They will when other countries that are 'relevant' in your opinion decide to take the same steps.
@@Allaiya.Get your head out of your butt and you'll realize that Canada isn't the first or even second country to do that.
I came for the internet discourse, stayed for the Canadian cultural analysis 😂
Canadian "culture" lol
Quebec Culture is quite Unique, because they are French. USA and English Canada are very similar though. People from Toronto and New York will be far more similar than people from New York Vs. Alabama for example.
The Pacific coast shares a culture too, including California, Seattle, and Vancouver. Alberta has a lot in Common culturally with Texas, Saskatchewan is as boring as Iowa, and Maine is basically a maritime province along with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
@@steverempel8584 this was actually made sense.
@@steverempel8584 nah california is its own demon
Vancouver however is similar to Portland and Seattle.
Europe already does this. We get shitty German shows on Netflix all the time, just cause the government forces it. Also the reason shows like Wednesday and Warrior Nun where shot in European nations (Wednesday was shot in Romania). Lots of movies also get funding from states like NY, Georgia, Bavaria and Berlin/Brandenburg to be shot there, creating jobs. The stories told in these often aren't set there though, creating the weird effect of mismatched stories and locations, like New York scenes shot in Toronto. Wyonna Earp, Lucifer and the Arrowverse were shot in Canada (often with Canadian talent) but set in the US. It's an ongoing issue (especially for "North Hollywood" aka Vancouver), but as far as I, as a German, am concerned laws like this won't fix it, as the EU has demonstrated.
This is also why a lot of films are shot in New Zealand. It's got some great natural landscapes, but more importantly, great subsidies.
If Google (or whomever) has to pay the CAN government money, they'll just find a way to pass the costs onto consumers. Charge more for ads (hurting local businesses), for example.
Okay so as a Canadian as far as I see it this is par for the course with the current federal government. We say, “leave us alone, we’re fine” and they add another cash grab/power grab law. Every month it’s something else they want to do that’s completely unnecessary.
Personally after year of this I’m thinking of starting a political party. I’m going to call it “The NO to everything party”. Our slogan will be “We either don’t need it, or we can’t afford it”.
I like it
I think we need a party which releases a vote and no misinformation about each law they will pass. Each citizen deserves a vote and to know what the government is lying about. This system of letting one group make all the decisions with no say from citizens is awful and can easily get worse.
@@auroraphyre6310 I agree. I think there should be a thing where every time they vote on something there is a survey citizens can vote in and if they find there is a discrepancy between the citizens and the politicians they have to scrap the vote and revise it until they can align their decisions with what the people actually want.
You've got my vote
This has nothing to do with the current government. Rather, it's just par for the course for Canada.
Trailer park boys is definitely the best Canadian content ever made
first few seasons were amazing, and to think all the usual suspects in canadian broadcast media never even called them back. Took a brand new obscure cable tv channel to give it a shot. With this new law get ready for more trash and no real trailer park boys level show on tv. Heck even Letterkenny couldn't even get a tv deal. Canadian broadcasters are so bad and the fact they want to control muh youtubes is nuts.
Mayday too. Great documentary series, the production value was insane.
The littlest hobo…. Admit it, the theme song is stuck in your head now
One of my favorite shows is Canadian, Hudson and Rex, the issue is it's very hard to watch in the US leading to finding other methods of watching that don't give viewership or money to the show.
In Germany you would definitely know if you are independent or corporate… I think the line is as soon as you have something like a regular live stream, you are treated as a media organization even if you are just one person.
I did not see that DP joke coming. 2 points for Linus!
Adding a local tag would be amazing. Not just for news, but people and creator who voluntarily GPS tag their content. Make the local tag partially algorithmically based, but factor in that GPS and location tag.
I wish this would be optional. Local content is awful here
@@Sabrintwitt3rYeah. My local content is really awful.
@LTT Yeah, government waste is a pretty big problem here. A couple of my step/parents were employed in different segments of the Canadian government; (tax bureau, transport/air canada, etc) the branches at their offices all had spending grants, but would always waste the leftover remainder of the budget on frivolous things near the end of the year since it was on a "use it or lose it" type basis.
So instead of just not wasting taxpayer money, they'd make sure to annually max out the department's black card on junk food, luxury furnishings and appliances to guarantee their grant size would be increased the next year- which just snowballs into more spending on useless garbage.
On top of all the other problems with the bill, one thing I think about it is that it's *insulting* to Canadian content creators. Are they somehow not good enough to stand up to the world without help? Then why are half the people I watch Canadian, and are often some of the biggest voices in their niches? Ask anyone interested in Age of Empires 2 content and they'll talk about Spirit of the Law. Get onto urbanist topics and you'll get Not Just Bikes talking points. Scarlett is a fan-favourite Starcraft 2 pro. Canadians have shown they can do well enough for themselves, and I worry that the bill will end up suppressing them because they can't get through the bureaucracy to get officially recognised.
The precedent this sets in terms of government power over what the people can create online is much scarier than the law itself. It all seems like a slippery slope and it’s hard to see it in any other fashion.
The problem that I see is the creation of bubbles as the opposite of what the Internet did for us (peeking outside your local bubble, expanding your horizon). But that's already happening with the algorithm, we're mostly in separated interest-bubbles.
You've probably seen that rare recommendation video, that's really strange and not like what you're usually getting, but the comments are full of "This was recommended to me", or "Today, CZcams has decided that we all are watching this video." I believe that it's a glitch, but I actually would like more of THAT.
The opposite of what Canada is doing. Of course, I want the majority of the recommendations to be something that I am interested in, and that works pretty well. But from time to time, here and there, sprinkling some totally different videos in, is a special moment. It bursts outside your personal bubble and shows you something, that you've not been invested in day in and day out. It is a video that brings a lot of us together from very different bubbles, and expands the horizons of all of us by showing, that the whole world isn't just what we are mostly invested in. There's so much more out there to discover. Who knows, what you might also like, that might be totally different to everything you've liked so far, and you would have never thought it? But even without that, just getting "confronted" from times to times with something totally different from elsewhere, is a good thing in my opinion.
But I believe that one thing the Internet did for many of us, is showing us how things are and work elsewhere, and empowering you to identify, which things that you think of as an "absolute necessity" here, are really that, or are just how things work in your locality, and there are a lot of other ways how things might work. It also creates empathy for other people, and bridges between nations and different cultures.
Canadian politicians forget that VPN's are a thing😂
American ones think they are literally witchcraft, so...
They'll go after those next, don't give them ideas
Hearing "CanCon" has immediately drained my soul dry.
it sounds like a slur lmao
@@mylifeisajoke1 we're truly living in a dystopia
Canadians are americans without the gun culture. And we are more passive aggressive
@@claudiameier666 also less French
@@claudiameier666 wish we had the gun culture here! would be a lot more fun!
I know very little about Canada nor Canadian politics, that said, I imagine moves like this will become quite common I suspect. Governments and the CEOs who control them have no control over what creators post. This is troubling for them since most of the population get their information from creators. By performing this act of "patriotism", they are likely attempting to push the boundaries with companies like Google to see what they can get away with. All in an attempt to enforce their own guidelines and gaining more control. This isn't shocking and was only a matter of time.
That's the current government for you. Carla Qualtrough, minister for workforce and disability inclusion, got her C-22 bill for the disability benefit passed, strong arming the bill through without any amendment to prevent, say, insurance companies from clawing back benefits (taking back money because you're not poor enough), saying instead that it would be negotiated at the provincial level, and that the government saying insurance companies can't be predatory would set a precedent. I think she's right, and that it's a precedent that needs to be made.
The current government doesn't represent us at all, it only represents the elite.
Its super funny as a Canadian living in the states and watching your channel I constantly get Canadian creators on my CZcams feed. I always thought "Man, Canada is pumping out these Content creators these days" .... Pretty sure you guys tipped my CZcams algorithm and I see all of them 😅
I grew up in rural Maine, so shows like The Red Green Show or Letterkenny were like a trip back home.
Scariest sentence known to man “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Letterkenny and Red-Green - two of my favorite things EVER- both DEEEEEPLY Canadian .
Geographical location locks and internet services DO NOT MIX! "World Wide Web".
Not CZcams:
Https:// Music .CZcams .com
canada really messing things up rn
Trudeau is a commie
Yeah thats politicians
We've been messing up for a good while now but I'm always glad there's more eyeballs on us when we mess up
@@renderedpixels4300 *Trudeau.
im Canadain i never voted for this and voted against it.
Imagine if Google just shows that video row and said hey, we finished implementing it
And instead of using any sorting algorithms they'll simply pay bureaucrats to sort it themselves, and find new videos
That's literally all they need to do (and they didn't make it FOR C-11, it's been there for years, just like a local-content section has existed on ALMOST ALL websites for YEARS). 🙄
Regarding the 'tree falling and nobody hearing it', digital stories are somewhat immune to that, because anyone can go see if the tree fell so long as it's still hosted somewhere.
A story written quietly is not necessarily going to be unread indefinitely. (Though it will certainly get buried until someone digs.)
This is going to happen everywhere, just in different ways. United States already has a bill that is technically aimed at tiktok but which lets them block any internet site or company. We can very easily be heading to nations putting up restrictions.
i had that "whats going on in your country" thing here in germany, but also always only government news/ cameras in parlament, every time i said "not interested ", took like 10 times for it to finally stop showing up
There's an option that's just like "don't recommend this channel" and that should take care of it
@@takanara7 true dat but it also wasnt all just one channel
i did indeed not try that one though, seems to bw fine now but if it comes up again i'll do that
personally I just used unhook to remove the home and explore pages, it's been garbage for so long.
One thing that I'm going to miss a ton when I move from where I'm at is the excellent local paper. They run basically no national news stories, have a lot of stuff about the achievements of local high schoolers/college students/community members, new stores that are opening, and that sorta stuff. It's genuinely one of the best newspapers I've read and it's a true shame that more local papers aren't like that.
I have my concerns this is probably going to hurt viewers just as much, probably worldwide too.
Canadian viewers are just gonna be forced stuff they don't want, and international viewers are probably going to have not-Canadian enough CZcamsrs just not show up in their feed.
Also... do subscriptions get controlled too?
Canadians should reject their commie hellhole of a govt then. It's insane that a WEF stooge like Trudeau is in charge of anything more serious than a cafeteria.
Canada also makes most decent sci-fi since the early 2000s.
You're not forced to watch anything, they just need to recommend Canadian content. Heck, LTT will benefit from it.
This will only change how Canadians inside Canada are recommended videos, and only a small amount. The level of misunderstanding and misinformation here is staggering.
@@toki002 the problem is that algorithms exist
Example: lets say your a Canadian creator and 90% of your viewership comes from Europe, now your content is forcefully appearing on other Canadians youtube even though they dont want to watch it, so they dont click it leading to a lower click thru rate and the algorithm seeing that as “oh people dont like this, lets stop recommending it”
This could work decently alone but because algorithms exist, it can fuck stuff up easily
Canadian content should be mainly defined as "Made in Canada by Canadians". Simple as that. It could be a cartoon about the emu war in Australia, if it is written by a canadian, produced in Canada and employ a majority of canadians, even if it's an american company financing the project (Looking at you Disney), it should be seen as canadian content.
There are still loopholes.
Eg, the production could be made by a Canadian company, which employs 100% canadian employees.... all five of them, because they contract out the actual production to another company elsewhere in the world.
I remember hearing similar ideas from the Australian government a few months ago. They wanted search engines to put Australian sites/media first, and also wanted to force streaming platforms such as Google, Disney and Netflix to allocate a certain budget to produce "Australian" content/shows.
Personally, I don't think this fixes any issues, it just makes consumers either turn off, or have to work harder to find what they're looking for... and as mentioned by you guys, possibly waste resources/money while trying to create this niche
A story told in a dark room is a rehearsal.
You Canucks gave us _You Can't Do That On Television,_ for which I am eternally grateful.
Funny thing is I watch CZcams to escape forced national content, in Australia, literally all almost always movies that get made are the same cheap knockoff Norwegian style thriller with a new crappy paint job. That and home and away and neighbours. I use CZcams to escape that crap stuff.
Honestly, this kind of legislation is already in place in many countries in the EU. For instance, here in the Netherlands, all streaming services are required to invest in Dutch productions and force them on their viewers. Nobody then watches said productions, so it's kind of a sad thing (the reason most people went to Netflix, for instance, was to watch non-Dutch content, so I'm not sure what the angle for the government is there). CZcams also wants to force feed me Dutch content, but it also recommends stuff based on all the activity in my Google account, which then makes stuff like LTT appear. Now, I may be oversimplifying things, and some misunderstanding of the Canadian bill may exist on my end, but I'm pretty sure Canada isn't the first country to do this and the impact will be negligable. It'll just force certain services out of Canada, and make other services pay more to the government, but with the over-saturation of the market with streaming services at the moment, I'm not entirely convinces that's a bad thing.
yeah this is not that big of a deal. Google already prioritizes stuff in the algorithm. Might make CZcams slightly less fun for Canadians seeing boring stuff on their feeds but it will be the same on other platforms. Slightly bad for American content creators but not enough to make much of a difference.
This law is only getting people annoyed cause the nation is right next to America.
Europeans are much more in favour of this than Americans.
Yeah, Linus is so wrong when he talks about "Canada's first move", similar laws exist elsewhere already.
Sooooo, really…It’s just a way for the Government to get more money out of companies with minimal effect? That extra money companies pay WILL be brought down to us though, right? 😭
@@CosmicHarmony58 I mean thats basically what it is. The CRTC has broadcast rules so that the big broadcast companies in Canada put the money they take from Canadians back into Canada and fund more Canadian made content. If it was up to lets say Bell, its cheaper to buy rights to American stations and content than it is to fund stuff here. So this new law is supposed to be doing like that. If these streaming companies want Canadian money, they have to put money back into the country.
When I was a kid, I loved "you can't do that on television" which was a Canadian production... In the opening was so obviously inspired by the opening of Monty Python's flying circus.
Malicious compliance incoming
Hehe as a Canadian I can't wait to see it
They should change the name of the country to North Canada
I’m in the US and have had a local section for awhile that shows my local tv news stations when I’m signed in. I actually keep up with my local news that way lol But it’s like a small section.
As someone who recently started using a VPN I 100% have already noticed a feed difference when I'm "in Canada"
Yeah no.
It's likely placebo.
No way any meaningful change in the algorithms was made in 3 days
@@whiplash2891 sorry I wasn't really clear, I mean to just agree with Luke's point and say google has already had it be different depending on region themselves for a long time
@@BenHanson137 fair enough.
Can't speak for it myself as i pretty much follow only foreign creators so my country's don't get recommended to me
Bill C-11 is rarely mentioned in the news media, and most of the general public don't know what it is and how it impacts what they view. Content creators from Canada like LTT and others should talk and talk and talk about this. Canada's state run media, attempting to be even more tight fisted.
Canada does not have state run media. The CBC is the only news provider with government funding, and there is strict legislation in place that stops the current government from influencing their reporting.
There has been plenty of coverage of c-11, so maybe stop spreading misinformation.
I had no idea about the belief of canada being a hellscape. I'm from latin america and pretty much all people I know think of canada as a nice but really cold place.
There is a small minority that like to complain about everything. I don't know, but they seem to be mad at the world and blame all of their life problems on others instead of taking responsibility for their own failures. Maybe their parents didn't HUG them enough. It is a beautiful country and a wonderful place to live !!!
Canada is garbage for a lot of reasons, it's more advantageous to go somewhere like Malaysia & run a company there where foreign earned income isn't taxed.
Too many regulations & laws in Canada.
It's not.
What there is are a lot of Canadians who really wish we were the US, or part of the US, because they like guns, pickup trucks, and freidumb.
Canadians looooove to complain about Canada. Especially our conservative elements like to pretend the sky is falling and Canada is collapsing every time Trudeau farts. Statistically look at any metric in terms of quality of life, freedoms, etc and we’re always top 10.
@@joshuaboniface Get in line Canuck.
This can be solved by an opt in method where you have your home country and then select which countries your content can be published to. Something along those lines.
Also I think transparency is probably a good thing if say an country or organization is publishing a piece of content it should be labeled as such or say why it was recommended to you and within that have it’s own segmented tab within the CZcams ecosystem.
Like they should have tabs or tags for say local and global content.
I see it as actually a good thing for everyone involved if we’re able to be more granular with it. Not all doom and gloom.
Does the vagueness not concern you though?
This bill says de-prioritization as well as deplatforming will occur without knowledge being sent to the user, that’s literally vaporizing someone from 1987. We literally just established our own ministry of truth.
This bill got pushed through in direct response to the freedom convoy, all of the debates when this was first coming into the talks was around they convoy. The latest talks literally last week said that it was russian disinformation that caused millions of canadians to protest, and now there will never be another chance to argue that. I cant open my newsfeed on anything without 100% of the content to be CBC or Global, which is literally state owned organizations.
We can’t pretend this bill is anything but dissent squashing within the country.
Please don’t let your positivity blind you from what is actually happening.
American, Canadian, English culture are all largely shared. There are local flavors to that culture, of course. But we all watch the same movies and shows, play the same games, read the same books, celebrate the same holidays, for the most part.
Canada is not big enough for this to work. They will get humbled quick.
That's exactly why there is a perceived need for this kind of protections.
As a Canadian I look forward to this, our government is being stupid & needs to be put in its place.
@@WitchMedusa Trudeau being stupid hahaha
Without these kinds of laws we’d have little to no local content at all. Similar regulations already exist in places like Germany, France, the Netherlands, and so on. American cultural exports are so pervasive that I think these measures are necessary to stop it from dominating local media everywhere. Besides, the point of the bill is to make room for Canadian content, if outside media wants to scale down in Canada because of that (& that’s a big if. It’s not a high bar to pass for an international company to just hire Canadians for a few projects); great! It would mean more room for local media.
I'm from Australia and we're similar in a lot of ways to Canada on this front. I think the main push for supporting local content is mainly just for keeping jobs in the country rather than forcing anybody who needs funding to go to America. America's iron grip on the entertainment industry ain't great for anybody who wants to take part in it who isn't American. Stories don't have to be _uniquely_ Australian, although all stories are inherently political and politics are influenced by your location yadda yadda yadda, but they do give opportunities for Australians to tell any stories at all! And same for Canadians. This law might not be the best way to achieve this goal, but I get where it's coming from
@Steve Sherman can you please tell me the definition of woke? I'd love to know
@@Sevenly7 basically prioritizing identity politics over everything else. Intersectionalism. And in the context of media, often at the expense of good story writing, casting, dialog, and screen play. Propaganda films just aren't as good as genuine entertainment, because its creators are less focused on making good entertainment than they are on their agenda.
@@DFPercush wrong, try again. literally takes a simple Google search.
Agreed!
@@Sevenly7 Google is not the dictionary. Merriam Webster: "woke : aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)" Like I said, identity politics.
when I first saw the title, my first thoughts revolved around "Jurisdiction" (and Linus did touch on that a bit with Google making a pledge to follow this new law, whatever form it may take) - A given country's laws only apply to its citizens and residents (and services hosted within its borders, naturally).
For the sake of example, imagine if I ran a streaming service from here in NZ and the Canadian government tried to fine/punish me for not showing enough Canadian content to whatever Canadian audience I might have, I'm not actually obliged to pay that fine as I'm not within the jurisdiction of their laws (it'd be absolutely legal for me to completely ignore it and carry on BAU)
Ultimately, I suspect this new law will have little-to-no effect on organizations 100% outside Canadian borders and will only harm Canadian residents who don't routinely use VPN services to get around georestrictions wanting content they were watching prior to the law taking effect.
as an aside regarding cultural export, I'm yet to see a beaver mud-wrestling competition (where the mud is actually maple syrup and the beavers are swinging proportionately sized ice hockey sticks)
It will have little-to-no effect unless the EU and the US are triggered to copy this kind of law. That would be very bad for channels like LTT. And of the EU I know that they have similar legislation that Canada had before adopting this new law.
Google: * bends the knee to China *
Also Google: Canada, that's too far.
yeah because canada has no people lmfao
google should just add a disclaimer over top of the thumb nail of the content its being forced to show you, informing you that this may not be best for you but your government wants you to watch it. that's a sure fire way to make people notice and be upset. Nobody likes the government telling them what they have to do especially on the internet.
thanks canada for having your priorities straight
thank you for doing your best to serve this cultural melting pot more of what is essentially a cultural melting pot but "CaNaDiAn" instead of focusing on such trivial issues like the housing crisis or the rampant price increases of our groceries while their CEOs pocket billions
"we stand on guard for thee" and all that yeah?
Just like here in the states man, we have a nearly brain dead pedo with 1 foot in the grave for a leader, who does nothing but lie, and mumble on the mic, and gives billions of our tax dollars away to foreign nations to fight a proxy war, while yet another bank collapses, inflation is through the roof, causing real wages to go down, major companies are laying off thousands of people at a time, food prices are going insane, riots, and looting of stores in major cities they do little about as local police are overwhelmed, along with some of them being attacked for trying to do the right things, and they let an illegal who's been deported 5 times come back across the southern border, and cause a mass shooting, along with tons of other criminals.
They are trying to create a cultural image for people to rally behind when the gov goes full authoritarian.
Like china, russia and every other state run country
@@Tropicoboy who runs the country where you live if not the state? Walmart?
@@mbuhlerful oil companies
I saw we just do what we always did, make everyone watch the log drivers waltz before every show they watch.
Or the cat came back.
It's funny because a lot of my Canadian friends hate Letterkenny but my Texan cousins absolutely LOVE it
If anything this will reduce content for Canadians not enhance it. I'd like to know what justification the government had in passing this bill. As it stands, google, CZcams and a few other companies already serve regional content wherever I am.
Funilly enough, quebec has this patriotism that the canadian government is looking to folster except its not for canada for for the province itself tho I think a lot of it stem from the language, instead of pushing/forcing content, highlight success from Canada(as in: oh hey! this critically acclaimed show is made in canada with these actors) give people a reason to be proud
You won't be able to do that if we don't have money to finance our industry because guess what? Our neighbour is a shark and we're a minnow in that pond and, outside of Quebec, Canadians are more than happy just gobbling content from the USA while leaving our art industry die a slow death.
@@toki002 There is already plenty of Canadian doing content, you dont need to be like this is entirely canadian you can highlight these great canadian actors, great canadian directors, this great movie who was filmed in "insert canadian city", make canadian proud of what we have, like you could instead just make it so promotional material for movies in canada have to highlight those, yea still intrusive but much less than forcing content that have been deemed canadian enough
@@caltordude All of those mean nothing if what you're consuming is still an American production.
This just hurts Canada, what are they doing.
As a Dutch, I also get that 'what's going on in Netherlands' section. It's all dutch news, mostly local/regional stations. Whenever I go to France/UK (and I use the same personal account), that section shows me French/British local news. I actually think its quite handy
I live in southern Minnesota, and I love Corner Gas (Canadian TV show).
LMG is moving to Tacoma Washington
It’s Tacoma with a C lol and Bellevue or Redmond would make more sense compared to where they are now
Alternative title: Linus dances around the fact that Canada doesn't have its own distinct culture for 30 minutes
Bruh, The last time I checked Canada has a very strong culture, you clearly just don't go for enough rips out in the real world buddy guy. But fukin ey bud, what do I know as a dumb ass lumber jack in Canada.
Canada does have its own unique culture & it's very similar to the US's culture for a reason. We're both ex-british colonies in North America with similar population demographics & the same language.
Canadian culture didn't copy American culture, their similiar for very obvious reasons. It's American culture just a parody of British culture?
Yes, but that's how change works, it's a slow evolution, no duh our cultures will be extremely similar.
The prercieved lack of Canadian culture is often due to getting steamrolled by the metric shitton of American cultural content that's megaphoned over the border
Are you from Canada? Because we do have our own culture here
@@lukehalmrast7366 Like what?
I also have a dedicated section for important news in my country, which usually appears for things like murder, accidents that kill a lot of people, election results, etc. It's been a thing for many years at this point. Most of the time, I'd say 95% or more, the section is not visible since no big breaking news is going on. However it only shows videos by channels that also have physical newspapers and websites, not independent creators that cover the same topic.
It seems to have nothing to do with interaction, since I've never clicked on any of those videos. While I don't mind having a way to get news through CZcams, but right now it can't be disabled or configured and I'm not a fan of that.
funny thing is: regionalization do work on most of the countries outside US/Canada area. The problem in the region is the shared language in such short area.
Brazil has a law that 30% of any media produced on a platform has to be national, and if you're not logged in, you're bombarded with Portuguese speaking (specifically if not exclusively Brazilian) content.
It's up to the user to care to their interests to break this barrier if they want to consume anything outside local content. To be fair, Japan has exclusive content inside CZcams we can't see already, among other things.
The most weird thing for Canada is this point system to decide what's Canadian content or not and what's dangerous for CZcams is because American and Canadian content is fairly similar and regionally too close to a point that is hard to define and it could potentially break things.
Don't leave Canada and then vote for the same type of politicians that made you leave in the first place.
This is a terrible take.
@@BigTendyT It's what's happening to Texas
Are you trying to say to vote conservative? Are you a regard?
@@mattymattffs I hate all political sides but some are definitely worse then others.
@@mattymattffs And are you trying to say liberals are better? Both conservatives and liberals are just sides of the same coin. Same old Anglo-Saxon mentality.
The localization on youtube is technically, an advertisement, so AdBlock and the likes can make it go away.
Or CZcams premium
In Washington I get the local news tab. I would love if like Luke mentioned they would do like 50/50 news and local creators
Back in the 90s, there was a tax put on blank casettes and CDs. They claimed that Canadian artists needed the money to compensate for potential music piracy. This money continues to be collected today. That's why blank CDs cost more than blank DVDs. The last time that i heard about it a few years ago NOT ONE NICKEL has gone to rhe artists because they couldn't figure out how to distribute it. So, someehere there is a bank account with money from blank media going back over 30 years and they dont give a crap about Canadian artists.
The money doesn't go to the artists. It goes to the copyright holders, or at least those well-connected enough to be part of the appropriate industry body. The money goes to the music labels.
Artists get screwed over because they are really in over-supply. The few who achieve super-star status can sometimes negotiate better terms, but for an artist just starting their career, they are nothing special. There are a million more people behind them with decent talent, all of them desperate for their shot at the big time.
I think you're right about most here, but I will say that "the way the internet is" right now isn't really a great situation. It is certainly better than the film and TV industry, but it's heading that direction with consolidation and centralization of power.
The problem with the TV industry isn't that it doesn't make appealing content, it's that it makes boring milquetoast content that seeks to offend nobody. Just look at how the CCP is portrayed in a lot of hollywood movies. This generalization of content makes it more broadly applicable but even outside of the obvious pandering to questionable groups like the CCP you absolutely lose any local context.
I mean, states in the US have their own financing programs for content for this reason. How many years was the majority of US content depicting either California or NYC...that erases the experiences of lots of other places in the US.
And yes, the Internet is more open to niche stuff right now...but I really do see a trend away from that and towards more centralization.
The CCP is portrayed the way it is, because we are not at war with the CCP. Meanwhile, during the entire cold-war era, everything communist was painted with the same brush, thus look at all the Bond films. As soon as that wall in Germany fell, it was all over. No more convenient bogeyman propaganda because it turns out the bear had no teeth. Meanwhile China has generally been portrayed as Hong Kong and Taipei in western media until 1997. Generally inoffensive.
What has changed is that big media (eg Disney) directs content production to be "global" which means issues that won't fly in China or Russia or UAE or Iran or whatever pants-on-head social policies get "editable" so that the parts that might offend the government can be cut. The progressive content is for the progressive audience and if it lacked diversity, the domestic market will just not buy it.
I'll give an example from Disney's "Lightyear", by all accounts this should check all the boxes for progressives, but it doesn't because a key character's same-sex partner, who Buzz see's exactly once, has no lines. They can cut that 10 seconds out of the film and market it to pants-on-head regimes. Another example is with Zootopia where they added this one Panda segment that ONLY appears in the Chinese language version, and is also different in Japan and Australia to make it a bit less pandering. But did it those changes need to exist? No. Of course not. Nobody makes a decision to watch a film based on a few-second cameo. But for some reason they felt the need to.
The problem ultimately will come down to if CZcams continues to be viable as a platform for Canadians. Because the way things are going, the CRTC might just decide that ALL platforms (CZcams, Apple, Amazon, Disney, Tiktok, Netflix, and smaller ones like Floatplane and Nebula) must pay to produce content nobody wants. So even though LTT is demonstrably Canadian, it's content often has nothing to do with Canada or Canadian Culture.
What exactly is "Canadian enough" to not be robbed by the CRTC?
In my opinion the solution to government waste is less government, thus less bureaucracy for money to get lost in.
The Texan reference got a good chuckle outa me 😄
And here i am actually one of the rare people who would love to have maybe just its own tab for content made in specifically for my country, as there are things that just resonates with my fellow citizens..
Honestly I would love the ability to just fricken search for content from a country or geographical region. Like ... provide the users with that. I was trying to recently learn some Albanian, and though "I'll search youtube!" and ... there was little to no Albanian content outside of people teching albanian, and I would have loved to restrict my search TO albania. Not possible.
CZcams search bar has just gotten worse and worse over time
I imagine that global communication will lead to a reduction in linguistic diversity. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing: Language separates populations.
You should look at how desperately Quebec is trying to preserve their French language. The laws like Bill 96 passed there have gotten pretty extreme now, to the point of banning bilingual signage: It must be French now, and /only/ French. Government services are greatly restricted in the translation services they are permitted to use. Educational organisations are essentially prohibited from providing courses in any language other than French - a small number of English-language courses are permitted, but only if taught alongside a French language class. Businesses are required to use French only for all internal communications, with the threat of a government agent coming to audit their emails for too much English. And yet, for all these draconian measures, intended to force everyone to speak French alone? It's not working. Every year the number of French-only speakers dips a little lower.
The homogenisation of language is inevitable in a world of easy long-distance communication. And I say bring it on! Give us the next step on the route to world peace: Because it's going to be a lot harder to declare war or 'otherise' another country when a lot of your citizens have internet-friends across the border.
What does one do if their representatives do not represent the will of the people?
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Lol - but in all seriousness? Move while you still can.
Viva la France?
There are plenty of gun-toting, Trump-loving nutters in Canada that say they'll look after it.
vote them out
Do the only thing the franch have perfected ie rebellion/uprising/riots and do as they did to there monarchy and be head them.
If it feels you'll be imprisoned for probably the rest of your life
The main thing is that it's not the government's job to decide what is and isn't Canadian culture. That's up to the people.
I'm halfway the video, but just as linluk said, isn't local content already amplified by Google/CZcams especially with blank account or on Trending page.
So I dont think the bill will does anything, unless what they meant is Canadian Government supported content which are quite different with 'local content' we already had.
every social media does push local content first since it's also the best way to get user engagement anyway, until the system gather enough data about the user interest
Maybe by default but if you watch a bunch of stuff the algorithm will give you stuff you like even if it's from a different country. Like, lately I've been getting some recs for Japanese content, since I've been studying Japanese.
27:49 - umm, your dictator in chief freezing protesters bank accounts IS dystopian my bruv.
I agree and just because I’m 28 ywar old mature young man who doesn’t agree with a 50 year old man child’s views? So im a racist and a homophobe and Nazi apparently lol. Just because I don’t agree with his views I’m all of those things? Nah I have a huge heart unlike little Justin, I care for people unlike him. The guys a bully, that’s his insult oh you’re a Nazi and a homophobe and racist, yeah ok there dude. I think that’s exactly what you are deep down inside you’re just calling others what you are deep down inside
Here in Brazil we have a law for cable tv and streaming services like HBO, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and others to make national content and sometimes the shows and films are really good but this law is only for big studios and would't affect youtubers and influencers
In India there is nothing like this. But still many otts produce local content
@@DhruvPatel-zg1zs that’s because India has a massive population giving it a stronger base for local media. A Bollywood film could make more money with just a domestic release than some films make in an entire international run, so there’s less of a financial benefit for cultural imports. For smaller countries like Canada there just isn’t a large domestic market to fall back on. The entirety of Canadas population is less than the single State of California, it’s a huge imbalance that needs to be accounted for with regulation if you don’t want local media to be pushed out.
@@Electrolux219 but western culture is also influencing India's culture but Indians are mostly tolerant about that. This canada move can also revive this local culture narative in India. I don't mind having local section separately but forcing on my recommendation page is pretty bad
Linus is looking at this as the government investing in the success of quality content providers, The government historically views the content laws was mostly to play supply side economics games to try to offset the higher costs of doing this sort of production in Canada and to keep some degree of that industry and its employees, afloat.
It's fully empty? Full of emptiness? Empty of full? Woah
Hopefully this convinced people to stop voting liberal
I'm from the U.S. and I've never heard Canada is a hell hole or whatever you guys said in the video. But I think all this content creator Canada thing is going to be fine. A year from now- Canadians get their internet consumption through USB sticks. Walking down the street in the U.S. and a man in a trenchcoat and sunglasses with USB sticks stops you, pssst pssst, hey you want the new Wan Show?
Unlikely, but in case you were never aware, satellite piracy/grey-market used to be pretty big, and the number 2 reason why people went through the effort to buy a US dish and setup a US mailbox and phone number for it (to establish a presence to authorize the receiver) was entirely to ditch the Canadian channels airing things they didn't want to watch instead of the US programs they were going to watch anyways. You see the current version of this with VPN usage.
And yes, what people were in fact doing in the late-90's/early 2000's in places with no high speed internet was getting their family/friends in places with high speed internet to download movies for them.
Ultimately it always backfires when you try to force people to watch things they don't want to watch or listen to. Instead of maybe being open to the idea that the "Canadian content" is watchable, they just know it's unwatchable low-effort content without even watching it, because they were forced to pay for it.
CZcams liked this video so much they highlighted it for me on the homepage lmao
Okay, wait. On radio, these laws simply force Canadian stations to play more Canadian songs to Canadian listeners. Program directors simply adjusted their rotations and life went on. I assume that CZcams would simply adjust their algorithms so that Canadians viewers see a little more Canadian creators in their suggestion feeds. Nobody is being blocked, or banned or cut-off. You will still see all the same suggestions from all over the world, but also more Canadian creators. I don't get why people are acting like the world is coming to an end.
Since this law came in, LMG Clips started popping up in my suggestions, and here I am.
That would force most canadian content creators to make shell companies in US which would just hurt canada in the long run
In Brazil there's a similar bill to be voted and google is behaving extremely aggressive about it, at a point the supreme court opened a investigation. Is this only here or in other places they did the same?
I can’t be the only person that sees the irony in a government that often makes statements such as “Canada not having its own own culture and Canada being a post national country” suddenly being concerned with patriotism and nationalism when it comes to regulating the media?
15:45
I'm American and one of the shows I watched most when I was growing up was _The Red Green Show_
The US is supposed to be the Melting pot, everyone who lives there is expected to become part of their culture. Canada is supposed to be a mosaic, all kinds of different cultures being encouraged to practice their own cultures within canada.
no a melting pot means they mix their cultures with the American culture and so on and so forth, Canada is like a segregated mosaic
Hopefully individual US states dont start passing dumb laws like this, with increasing political/cultural polarization I could see that happening in the future.
Oh God, no i live in Africa. The last thing I need is to be recommending the shit that gets posted on CZcams here
Canada has plenty of export culture. Some of the biggest artists in the world are Canadian. Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber, etc…people just cant tell the difference between canadian and american culture because they’re super similar in many ways. Degressi, Total Drama Island, Handmaid’d Tale, Anne of Green Gables (Anne With An E) are other Canadian things that are part of the global zeitgeist
In Brazil we are having similar troubles... Government trying to control the internet... but in here is way worse