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nonbinary transfemme anarchist

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Never dare hope for good fortune when playing against loaded dice
But dare to flip the tables of the carnies who rigged the game

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Aspiring pro wrestler looking for training, a queer fantasy author and gamedev hobbyest.

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Syrus
@Syrus

So, want to start by saying: Not a lawyer, not a legal-understander in general, but I have been bound by a broad system of inscrutable laws before and I honestly don't recommend it.

With that in mind, Bill C-11 concerns me. Not the way it concerns weirdo conservatives, I assure you, and I deeply resent the Trudeau administration for making me clarify that every time they fuck something up (See also: MAiD). But, a government agency enforcing laws that are tailored to the outdated ideas of broadcast television onto the internet at large seems not great to me.

The whole idea of forcing "CanCon" onto the internet is absurd. You're not going to make Netflix produce "CanCon", it's not a big enough market, they don't get access to the funding offered to broadcast networks, and Netflix won't even keep producing the shows it wants to make! They'll just bail and we'll all be using VPNs again. Putting "CanCon" into the Youtube feeds of people who don't want to see it is only going to hurt that media, because you can't force engagement - but the algorithm will record that lack of interest, and it will ripple outward. And that's assuming the system for determining what is and isn't "CanCon" works in the first place, and since it's the same system from the Broadcasting Act we can be assured that it does not.

In short, it reads like it was drafted by people who don't understand what they're legislating and don't want to. I'd say maybe some broadcaster money changed hands, but this won't drive people back to them - the TV god is dead.

So obviously this is all going to be a complete shitshow and it won't work the way they want it to, but my question is: what are the limits? The bill's intention of regulating "audiovisual content" that, among other things, "generates revenue directly or indirectly" seems really broad. How many "unfuck this website" scripts am I going to have to run? And what will the consequences of this shitshow actually be?


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