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Canada is the best Maybe on the front lineA strange new era in which federal regulators are empowered to determine if our online pornography is Canadian enough — otherwise Imposing the necessary punishment.
Bill C-11 — a liberal promotion to bring most of the Internet under the control of CRTC —House of Commons with the support of NDP and Bloc QuébécoisPassed. Without major revisions by the Senate, Netflix, YouTube, and even Instagram will soon be forced to be subject to Canada's well-known nasty restrictions on Canadian content.
However, there is not much debate about how Bill C-11 applies to the vast streaming pornography of the Internet.
The law applies to all programs broadcast through "Online Business".At the Commission's hearing, it was generally understood that this included streaming services such as YouTube, Netflix, Disney +, but streaming millions of hours of adult content that Canadians regularly consume. There is nothing to prevent you from reaching.
I continue to make sense to raise this in my various rants against Bill C-11, but someone now this I asked about — yes, Bill C-11 applies to PornHub. The government clearly says so.
— J. J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough)June 22, 2022
Peter Menzies (former CRTC Vice-Chair and fierce C-11 critic) says online pornography It will almost certainly fall within the scope of the bill.
"The final decision on who will participate and who will not participate will be made in future CRTC hearings, but theCommissioner will provide Pornhub and its long-term users. It's hard to imagine doing-generated content is exempt, "he wrote in columnearlier this month.
Regulating pornography is nothing new to CRTC. Many Canadian adult cable channels must already comply with the stringent Canadian content requirements enforced by the CRTC
2014, The creators of Toronto-based erotic channels have been threatened with licenses because at least 35% of adult content was not guaranteed to be in Canada. This is equivalent to 8.5 hours of Canadian pornography per day. Channel with XXX action clips and gay-oriented Maleflixxx isthe most of Bill C-11 with enough closed captions
A controversial aspect is how to force online streamers to "ensure the discoverability of Canadian shows." YouTube now uses complex algorithms to pair users with content that they may be interested in. Under C-11, these algorithms disproportionately pair users with content that regulators consider to be sufficiently Canadianwhile artificially hiding non-Canadian content. Coordinated by federal orders that need to be.
For Canadian content, everything from Netflix feature films to underground YouTubers is CRTC's nasty "Point System" {101. } {Must be submitted to 102. 103} In a system that is already mandatory for TV channels, content creators submit a detailed budget to CRTC to spend on minimum quotas for Canadian actors, Canadian crew, and even verifiable. You need to prove the amount of production costs made. In Canada. This often led to some mysterious CRTC decisions as to whether they were truly Canadian. Notoriously, one of Canada's rocker Bryan Adams (Everything I Do)'s top hits was recorded in the UK and co-authored by Americans and South Africans, so it's not considered Canadian content. Not done Canadian YouTube users are against Bill C-11 to destroy a thriving sectorwas said. Cross-border cooperation; Canadians currently producing videos with Irish co-hosts and Czech producers are currently non-Canadian because content is hidden by CRTC-tuned algorithms. You can see the viewer fall off the cliff.
Even YouTuber, which can meet the CRTC guidelines, will impose a large amount of paperwork on most of the minor operations. Similar red tape avalanches may be waiting for the cottage industry of Canadian cam girls, adult actors and independent porn producers
When it comes to streaming content consumed in Canada, pornography is certainly a major player. Of the most visitedtop 40 websitesin Canada as of May 2022, four are pornography. Top candidate xvideos. com regularly rivals Netflix with unique monthly views. PornHub. com —One of the industry giants streaming adult content — is regularly ranked as the world's most popular Canadian website because it is headquartered in Montreal.
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