Canada's #BillC10 is a federal regulation of Canadians' online expression, from podcasts, social media and blogs to other user-generated content.

Despite claims from the ruling Liberals that opposition to this bill is Tory partisanship, this is a UNIVERSAL issue.

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(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)

pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/8-h…

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As always, @mgeist has had the best analysis of how C-10 goes well beyond the government's claims of modest and sensible rules of the road, instead empowering the CRTC to order blocks and takedowns of otherwise legal content.

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Here's Geist on why the bill does not pass muster with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/failin…

On why it covers user-generated content:

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/think-…

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On the true scope of the bill, including "News Sites, Podcast and Workout Apps, Adult Websites, Audiobooks, and Sports Streamers."

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/not-ju…

On the inevitability of site-blocking under C-10:

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/the-bi…

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On the incompatibility of C-10 with #NetNeutrality:

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/why-bi…

and on the bad faith, Trumpian cries of "fake news" by the Liberal Heritage Minister @s_guilbeault.

michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/who-is…

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Contrary to M Guibeault's smears, opposition to C-10 isn't a Tory conspiracy. I have never carried water for the Tories - I've rung doorbells to campaign against them federally, provincially, municipally, and internationally, when I lived in the UK.

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The Liberals' track record on internet regulation is terrible (remember Sam Bulte's jeremiad against "user-rights zealots"?), but the Tories are even worse. Long before Tony Clement was caught sending pictures of his junk to random women, he was ramming through Canada's DMCA.

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Indeed, it's precisely because I know how Stephen Harper would have weaponised C-10 that I want it staked through the heart.

(And if you think Harper's C-10 would be bad, imagine PM Doug Ford wielding it - or PM Faith Goldy)

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The Heritage Ministry is accepting comments on C-10 until May 31. Today is the #NoSiteBlocking national day of action, organised by @OpenMediaOrg.

They've got a page of bilingual resources for filing your comments:

dontblock.ca

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Bill C-10 is a gift to Canada's outrageous telecoms monopolies: Bell, Shaw and Rogers. Canada has spent decades treating telecoms and internet laws as political conveniences, ignoring the digital divide, monopolism and the consequences of mass surveillance.

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It's time the country treated the care, maintenance and growth of its digital nervous system with the gravitas and public interest it warrants - even if that means slight reductions in profits to the monopolists who have served Canadians so poorly.

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