The primary characteristic of any totalitarian government is always its overweening obsession to censor communication. The result has not only been the strangulation of free expression, but the unleashing of artistic banality..Thank God, Timothy Denton, a former commissioner of the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), called out the Trudeau government for its continuing attempt to smother the Canadian population with internet regulations that will lead to the a loss of freedom and government-sanctioned propaganda on the web. Denton called Bill C-11, An Act To Amend the Broadcasting Act, a “power grab over human communications” while he testified at a Senate committee examining the hearings..The very fact the bill reached the Senate committee is reason to fear the worst. It's nearing the end of its legislative path and will soon be due for third reading..Bill C-11 would classify YouTube videos as TV broadcasts subject to mandatory regulation and essentially put YouTubers out of business..“It captures virtually all online audio and video,” Denton, current chair of the Canadian chapter of the Internet Society, told the Senate transport and communications committee. Denton said the bill is a “power grab over human communications across the internet and therefore deserves our distinct disdain.”.“C-11 declares all audio and visual content on the internet to be broadcasts,” Denton said..“It’s a kind of reverse takeover of the internet. The tiny Canadian broadcasting system can take on the world of the internet by the mere trick of redefining ‘broadcasting.’ C-11 is that bold and that absurd.”.This, of course, is more of the Liberals’ obsession everything being broadcast has to be focused on Canada and of course the sort of Canada imagined by the Liberals. That is, a Canada of universal healthcare, an armed forces that just does peacekeeping and a docile population dedicated to paying its income tax and serving government at all levels..In addition to taking over the military and police, totalitarian governments usurped complete control over the mass media. In Soviet Russia, the press and broadcasting outlets were taken over by the government and immediately began issuing propaganda in support of the Communist government. Even the arts from sculpture to film had to reflect “Soviet realism” and the result was the production of some of the most wooden and two-dimensional creations ever to populate a studio or theatre. Art was subsumed by ideology and in order to keep working and eating, artists willingly followed the party line. Artists will do what they are told, in order to eat: Inevitably, governments dumb down creativity..In Nazi Germany, private media outlets were allowed to continue publishing and broadcasting, but only after Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels approved the final edits and scripts and ensured there was nothing present to offend the government. Although Nazi propaganda was more effective than its Soviet counterpart, if you compare the sculpture of the two regimes, it is virtually identical. Only Leni Riefenstahl rose above the mediocrity of iron grip..So nobody’s saying we’re on the precipice of becoming a totalitarian political entity, but Trudeau has certainly demonstrated authoritarian tendencies and his brazen attempts to freeze our free speech is unacceptable and dangerous. Trudeau’s government needs to take its hands off the internet and stop telling us what's acceptable..Disinformation and hate speech are anything this government doesn’t want to hear or read and can be interpreted in any way it wishes to do so. That's another characteristic of totalitarian governments: The rule of law is never consistent and you are never sure if you're standing on the right or the wrong side of the government’s favour..We've lost enough of our free speech rights in this country and if you don’t believe it, just try challenging Trudeau’s social agenda and watch the weight of the legal system descend upon you for hate speech. It can be frightening in its speech and intensity..But it could get worse before it gets better.
