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by asjfka 1145 days ago
>The government has insisted that the legislation is not intended to regulate independent content creators.

What does that means? If I upload videos on Youtube, then I'm probably in the clear. But if I make my own website with videos on it, am I still an "independent content creators" or am I now a streaming service in need of being regulated? How big I need to become before the law apply to me? Is this a new barrier to entry so the little guys are stuck with existing platform?

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The Senate put in an amendment to explicitly make that clear but the house of commons stripped it out citing "loopholes". So I wouldn't be surprised if any reasonably sized YouTube channel gets impacted despite being users of a social network.
If you upload to YouTube, why couldn’t you still be an independent content creator? Like writers on Substack are still considered independent.
I don't know. My question was if you don't.