[johnp271]

The CRTC News Release explicitly states:

"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."

I would ask, who decides what is 'meaningful'? This sounds like an open door to censorship to me. Was not the requirement to make 'meaningful' contributions to society the excuse used by the Soviets and Red Chinese to stifle publications.

[roughsquare]

They are referring to the CanCon rules https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon.htm

The rules have been around for 40+ years in one form or another.

[cpncrunch]

A lot of the links on that page don't work, but I infer that it only applies to radio and TV, and it's not going to apply to podcasts just yet (perhaps in the future). Still, not much concrete info.

[jdsully]

It will indeed apply to online services and affect their recommendation algorithms.

[cpncrunch]

Do you have a reference for that?

[cpncrunch]

Yes, I saw that, and there is no mention of any censorship, or even any plan to regulate content, other than the sentence you mention which seems to be in the future. So there might perhaps be some "censorship" or regulation in the future, but not now.

[didibus]

From what I know, it's just that you need a specified amount of air time from Canadian, French and indigenous presenters. What they choose to do with it is up to them.

It's more of a pass the mic around so every group gets some airtime law, and not so much a you cannot talk about this or that.

The idea is that it acts a bit like human rights, at balancing majority rules. Where financial incentives would prefer to always tailor to the majority since it makes more money, this enforces that minorities get some proportional airtime on big media channels.

[mrpotato]

> it's just that you need a specified amount of air time from French Canadian and indigenous presenters.

It's only specific to Canadian and Indigenous content. The content does not have to be French.

[voisin]

In a streaming on demand, user driven world, how do you define “air time”? I can’t see how you could force consumers to consume a certain amount of CanCon, and simply ensuring CanCon %| of content available doesn’t make sense either since a small amount of content could be consumed up to 100% of total platform consumption, and a large amount of content could be consumed as little as 0% of the total platform consumption.

[didibus]

I'm not sure if they're going after a single podcast show, or after podcast apps. If the latter, it's probably just making available Canadian made podcasts to some amount of Canadian made podcast and promoting them in recommendations and listings. If the former, it's a bit more strange, maybe inviting guests that are Canadians on the show, for some amount of episodes?