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- Canada must quickly pass legislation to oversee social media platforms, says an expert in cybersecurity law, including appointing an independent regulator who can levy “hefty” financial penalties.
www.itworldcanada.com/article/canadian-law-regulating-social-media-platforms-is-needed-fast-parliament-told/554498Canadian law regulating social media platforms is needed fast ...
May 1, 2022 · Social networking companies that bill themselves as "public squares" should be subject to government regulation that helps reduce harm against users, says media expert Taylor Owen.
- Social media creators, podcasts won't be regulated under ...
The Liberal government has released its final policy...
- Social media creators, podcasts won't be regulated under ...
Nov 14, 2023 · The Liberal government has released its final policy direction for the Online Streaming Act, requiring digital giants to contribute to Canadian content while leaving individual content creators...
Dec 5, 2023 · Canada must quickly pass legislation to oversee social media platforms, says an expert in cybersecurity law, including appointing an independent regulator who can levy “hefty” financial penalties.
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- Was Section 4.1 Included in Bill C-10 in The First place?
- Did The Government Propose to Remove Section 4.1?
- How Are You Defining “Social Media Service”?
- Is There A Privacy Concern with Information Gathering?
- What Do You Mean by “An Affiliate” of A Social Media Service?
The Government of Canada recognizes that social media services have clearly become an important tool for self-expression for Canadians. As you are all aware, section 2.1 clearly excludes users from being considered broadcasters in respect of the programs they post to a social media service. Section 4.1 clarified that programs that are uploaded to a...
The Government, after hearing from industry stakeholders, felt that the calibration of section 4.1 wasn’t right. According to a recent survey from the Media Technology Monitor, nearly two-thirds of Canadians use YouTube as their primary music streaming service; many Canadians turn to social media services for programming that informs, enlightens, a...
Bill C-10 does not define the term “social media service”. That’s because this is a commonly used term and it has a well understood meaning. Many dictionaries include a definition of social media. For example, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines social media as: forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microb...
The proposed changes are specifically intended to provide the CRTC with the powers to properly administer the Broadcasting Act. These information gathering provisions would allow the CRTC to obtain relevant financial information from an online undertaking that provides a social media service as well as programming information. But to safeguard priv...
Bill C-10 defines “affiliate” in terms of corporate control. Examples include a corporate parent or subsidiary of a social media service. In speaking about the Bill in a non-technical manner we often refer to “unaffiliated users” as a short-hand that means everyone but for (i) affiliates in the defined sense, (ii) the service itself and (iii) agent...
Canadians can expect that we would regulate large services that Canadians intuitively associate with “social media platforms”, such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. They can also expect that we would regulate platforms where child sexual exploitation and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images are more likely to occur, like Pornhub.
Sep 25, 2021 · The Government proposed a new legislative and regulatory framework that would create rules for how social media platforms and other online services must address harmful content. The framework set out: which entities would be subject to the new rules; what types of harmful content would be regulated; new rules and obligations for regulated ...
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Mar 25, 2022 · Bill C-11: Proposed legislation to regulate social media and streaming companies is back in Canada. In June of 2021, Canada’s Parliament passed Bill C-10: An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts (Bill C-10).
