Canadian Broadcasters Seek New Internet Regulation

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist's weekly Toronto Star column reports that the Canadian broadcasting community, including broadcasters, copyright collectives, and actor labor unions, are all calling on Canada's broadcast regulator to increase its regulation of the Internet. Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements, while the broadcasters want to stop U.S. broadcasters from streaming television shows online into Canada."

Canadian content requirement...

[rednip]

To satisfy the Canadian content requirement, all one needs to do is add a couple minutes of the 'Great White North' [wikipedia.org] to each of the YouTube clips.

Dear CRTC

[camperdave]

Dear Canadian Radio and Television Commision:

The internet is neither radio, nor television, nor Canadian, so keep your regulatory hands in your pockets.

A call to arms

[Grashnak]

Some groups want sites such as YouTube to be subject to Canadian content requirements

Fellow Canadians, I am shocked to learn that YouTube is apparently not meeting its committment to ensure that at least 30% of its content is Canadian. I call upon all of you to immediately get a camcorder and make a tape of: yourself smashing your testes during an ill-fated skateboard stunt; two drunk Canadian girls kissing; a dog (Canadian) biting someone's crotch; your sister, passed out and naked; Canadian ninjas fighting Canadian pirates, or; a montage of guys showing off their plumbers butts at hockey games.

Only by lowering ourselves to their level will we ever be fairly represented on YouTube.

Re:A call to arms

[slashbob22]

Only by lowering ourselves to their level will we ever be fairly represented on YouTube.

Just make sure we post in both official languages. The French Language Commission may follow up with whatever the CRTC leaves behind.

Objectionable?

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

>they can mandate a firewall that blocks all objectionable content from getting into Canada.

Having watched Canadian television, I, for one, find the concept of watching television content that Canadian broadcasters find objectionable terrifying.

Re:A call to arms

[Scrameustache]

While I realize you're trying to be funny, but you do illustrate the point well. How is a site consisting only of user created content supposed to adhere to content laws? How are they supposed to control the amount of Canadian content?

Spam youtube with Clips of Celine Dion?