Mon Oct 2, 2023 – 3:56 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– Due to new powers granted via Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, Canada’s broadcast regulator has now mandated that certain online streaming services and podcasters “register” with the government by November 28, 2023, a command that has been ridiculed online as outright “censorship” by a slew of prominent figures.
In a press release sent out last Friday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced the new rules “to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content.”
Any online streaming service that offers content in Canada, which includes podcasters, falls under the new rules. The rules stipulate that for now, only streaming services and podcasters who earn more than $10 million or more in annual revenues “will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023.”
“Registration collects basic information, is only required once and can be completed in just a few steps,” said the CRTC.
The CRTC is also mandating new “conditions” that streaming services and podcasters must follow, including requiring those “services to make content available in a way that is not tied to a
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