NO ADS CANADA asks for answers and claims Bill C-18 The Online News Act, is a fight over who gets to profit from the advertising industry while failing to address that the advertising industry itself is what is corrupting and undermining democracy.
Rule by the rich
Anyone who knows me knows I am against the Advertising Industry.
I see it as the rich man’s sly weapon used to manipulate, control, and exploit the less fortunate. It turns democracy sadly into rule by the rich.
News
Bill C-18 The Online News Act, was passed last month in the House of Commons. In response, Google and Facebook state that beginning January 1, 2024 they will be blocking access to Canadian Online News on their services. Why am I seemingly the only person speaking up about legislating to create a new public communications service? A purpose of the service would be to give Canadians access to Canadian News and to sustain Canadian News Production workers by paying them for their work that is accessed and approved of by Canadians.
Keep in mind that for a large part Google and Facebook are Advertising Firms.
A Glut and A Lack
Pardon my French but this is a really fucked up way to have access to the glut of online news information and entertainment that exists and is constantly being added to. Pardon my French but this is also a really fucked up way to sustain content production workers. There is lack of important local news and a glut of often shallow mediocre untrue or unimportant stories and opinions.
The De-privatization Opinion
The Digital Media Content Access Industry is one of those industries like Healthcare that should be a public service not a business.
Missing answers
The answers to these question should be found —
• Where is there any hard proof that media advertising is a good thing for people who are coerced into persistently being exposed to it when they turn to the internet to satisfy their thirst for news, information and entertainment?
• Can advertising cause Demand-Pull Inflation?
• Is advertising likely to spur inflation?
• Does advertising rearrange market share?
• if so are the resulting gains and losses of share fair?
• Why is it that advertising is used to finance production of media content that is in demand?
• Could there be any fairer way to fund Canadian Journalism than with directly democratic public funding as defined in The Digital Public Library Proposal?
Please support this proposal. This comes from a perspective that the digital media production industry, the digital media access industry, and the media advertising industry can be viewed as separate industries.
The Digital Public Library Proposal
— We propose that our governments act to de-privatize and democratize the digital media access industry by enacting legislation to create a new public service that meters out digital content to users on request and that automatically pays content owners 30 days after their content is used.
Also we propose that the user be granted a manual option to block automatic payments their use has triggered if the user deems the content to be inappropriate or unworthy. This user’s manual option to block payment will be a powerful disincentive to those who may wish to profit from deception.
To be strictly a public service it will be financed with public funds and it will not be wholly or partially funded with revenue from the media advertising industry.
Please contact your MP and speak out against Bill C-18 and speak up for Tabling a new Bill in Parliament to establish a new public service as proposed in The Digital Public Library Proposal —