Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says the CRTC may regulate accounts that have a large following under Bill C-10.
Although the government has stated that user-generated content won’t be subject to regulation under Bill C-10, Guilbeault told
CTV News in an interview that if an account has millions of viewers, the CRTC may have regulating powers related to the discoverability of online content.
“What we want to do, this law should apply to people who are broadcasters or act like broadcasters,” Guilbeault told
“So if you have a YouTube channel with millions of viewers, and you’re deriving revenues from that, then at some point the CRTC will be asked to put a threshold. But we’re talking about broadcasters here, we’re not talking about everyday citizens posting stuff on their YouTube channel.”
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