Pretty information-free article. From the announcement, it looks like online streaming services that make over $10 million have to register. I don't think individual podcasts have to register unless they are self-hosted and ridiculously successful.

If you have a podcast and you're mad about this, just host it on your own website and distribute with RSS. That's what a podcast is, and nobody will have to register anything.

Maybe change the link to https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications...? The current article is basically a collection of quotes with a single factual sentence.

Does anyone have a link to the actual legal text? I would like to know what they exacly require here. Some parts look really concerning to me like this citation:

“Second, the CRTC is setting conditions for online streaming services to operate in Canada. These conditions take effect today and require certain online streaming services to provide the CRTC with information related to their content and subscribership.”

The part about information related to their subscribership concerns me. Do they mean a breakdown by country? Like how many people from canada actually subscribe? Do they want a breakdown by age and gender? Or do they actually want information like the names of the subscribers. This can go from completely innocuous to actually very authoritarian.

Of course the display ad placed with the article is one from PP's campaign saying "Stand up to the woke Liberal-NDP coalition". I truly despise how the Conservative party imports Republican talking points and strategy wholesale from the US.

After reading the article, I still have no idea what the bill actually says.

Flagged for being biased and not presenting the whole picture.