CRTC to review hands-off approach to unregulated Internet, cellphone content

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MONTREAL — Canadians are watching more and more videos and TV shows that aren't required to have home-grown content via their computers and cellphones, but after a decade of explosive Internet growth the CRTC will review its hands-off approach to the medium.

The federal broadcast regulator will begin hearings on Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., to review its policy of allowing broadcasting content to be unregulated on the Internet and cellphones.



The CRTC is a joke , unable to enforce canadian content rules even on TV, let alone tackle new territories. The only possible reason for this excursion into censorship is to give a few pro business groups (like the liberals and their cohorts) total control over all information like they used to have over TV before people stopped watching it and started surfing the net.

The only thing the CRTC is capable of doing is screwing over the common man. Regulating any big business is beyond their control , they are in fact a pawn of big business , a false flag operation if you will.

Witness the cries of outrage over Bell putting charges on all text messages, even incoming spam. What did CRTC do about this ? Nothing.

Witness the fact that aside from a few local broadcasters babbling on about sports, 100% of all content on TV is made in america , because it's cheaper than actually producing our own stuff.

Witness the fact that , aside from the announcer reading the news , 99% of the content on any radio station is made in america. A small handful of canadian songs, a vast vast VAST majority of american songs.

There is no canadian content. And the CRTC is a lap dog of big busness to help them squeeze a few more bucks out of the common man. If you think they're going to actually protect the citizens of canada , you are sadly mistaken. Their mission statement is quite the opposite.