tech as they see fit"? Even when it might potentially violate [international trade agreements like CUSMA](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/10/law-bytes-podcast-episode-141/), [international treaties like the Berne Convention](https://archive.ph/Jf13t#selection-1024.0-1024.2), and [go against their own supreme court ... deliver boatloads of cash to their allies in the broadcasting sector ([which stands to get 75%](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/03/heritage-minister-pablo-rodriguez-contradicts-his-own-bill-and-department-officials-in-effort-to-defend-bill-c-18/) of the money, [even if they don't produce any news at all](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/12/money-for-nothing/)).

politically biased](https://youtu.be/_Klkr6PtYzI). Western politicians are no better for rolling out new ["hate speech](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/why-the-liberals-have-become-the-most-anti-internet-government-in-canadian-history/)" and ["misinformation" laws](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/07/the-freedom-of-expression-wake-up-call-why-the-crtcs-radio-canada-ruling-eviscerates-the-defence-of-bill-c-11/). We've banned/put out "fact checks" for anything that counters

from other locations to meet our quotas. [Content protectionism does not increase production of local content](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2020/11/the-governments-internet-regulation-bill-why-bill-c-10-will-mean-a-crtc-approved-netflix-service-reduced-consumer-choice-and-less-investment-in-canadian-culture/), instead it reduces content from other countries. [Canadian Netflix has significantly less content than either