Not only will platforms such as YouTube and Netflix be restricted, but ordinary users will be impacted by the Online Streaming Act.

Despite successive Heritage Ministers stating that any user-generated content would not be affected by Bill C-11, known as the Online Streaming Act, that was passed into law in April 2023, a recent legal battle with Google regarding revenue compensation has exposed that this might not be the case.

Recently, the CRTC made a ruling in which it stated that if an advertisement is accompanied by user-generated content, it must be subject to the new regulations because ads are controlled by YouTube.

Geist observed that for the “better part of two years, a steady parade of government ministers and MPs insisted that user content regulation was out of the bill even as a plain reading made it clear that it was in.”

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