Tech mogul Elon Musk hammered Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “crushing free speech” as he moves to regulate podcasts, calling it “shameful.”
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Trudeau has just made it mandatory for online streaming services to formally register with the government for “regulatory controls.” That makes it possible for the Canadian government to censor free speech especially when it comes to podcasts and citizen journalism.
Independent reporter Glenn Greenwald was incensed over the ruling, tweeting, “The Canadian government, armed with one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all ‘online streaming services that offer podcasts’ must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls.”
Greenwald also wrote, “After 2016, a few neoliberal billioinaires (Omidyar, Soros, Gates) concocted and heavily funded a new fake industry called ‘disinformation experts.’ They worked with Western security agencies that realized they can’t afford a free internet. It’s all to justify these laws now.”
Musk could not agree more, stating on X, “Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada. Shameful.”
Trudeau is trying to crush free speech in Canada. Shameful. https://t.co/oHFFvyBGxu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2023
“Today, the CRTC is advancing its regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content,” a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) press release announced.
“On May 12, 2023, the CRTC launched its first public consultations. After thoroughly examining all the evidence on the public record, including over 200 interventions, the CRTC is issuing its first two decisions,” it continued.
“First, the CRTC is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $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,” the press release put forth.
“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 decision also requires those services to make content available in a way that is not tied to a specific mobile or Internet service,” it added.
No surprise Canada is the most heavily infested by disinformation experts
Canada isn’t a country, it’s more like a staging ground for globalists / neoliberals / NWO
— Chris Brunet (@realChrisBrunet) October 2, 2023
This is nothing new for Trudeau and his repressive government lackeys when it comes to free speech. In February 2022, Trudeau invoked emergency powers for the first time in Canada’s history. He made that move, allowing the Canadian government to thuggishly respond to trucker protests against vaccine mandates at the time.
Shortly before Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian Nazi, Trudeau caused another uproar after insinuating that India took part in killing Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. India has denied the allegation and is calling it “absurd” and “motivated.”
Poland seeks extradition of Canada Nazi; Squirming Trudeau throws ex-speaker under the bus for fiasco https://t.co/fN1O0n5a74 via @americanwire_
— ROY E. WHEELER JR. (@roywhl) September 29, 2023
The prime minister has provided no proof for his claim so far but said his government is investigating “credible allegations.”
In retaliation, India has suspended its visa services in Canada. India also issued an advisory to its citizens and those who are traveling to Canada to exercise “utmost caution in view of growing anti-India activities and politically-condoned hate crimes and criminal violence” within the country.
Users on X were also in agreement with Greenwald and Musk concerning the tyranny that has gripped Canada a la Trudeau:
They really are trying to end free speech
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) October 1, 2023
will preserve free speech.
Trudeau sucks!
— Elon Musk (Parody) (@ElonMuskAOC) October 1, 2023
— Paul Hookem (@PaulHook_em) October 1, 2023
Could you help us Elon? pic.twitter.com/0nKdhEkgxP
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) October 2, 2023
I am getting an old Nazi Germany vibe and I do not like it.
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) October 2, 2023
Trudeau has been hard at work crushing free speech and freedom of expression in Canada for awhile now.
Remember Trudeau’s internet censorship bill, C-11, that became law earlier this year? Even Google criticized it. It subjects digital content creators to regulation by the…
— Julia (@Jules31415) October 1, 2023
It’s also a good lesson in how to understand that what they name things is intentional inasmuch as it’s knowing sold to mislead you by misrepresenting what the real intent is.
In this case, this isn’t about modernizing Canada’s broadcast framework. It’s all about the Govt…
— AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ (@AwakenedOutlaw) October 2, 2023
Elon, you might have to buy Canada.
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) October 2, 2023
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