{"id":52620,"date":"2020-04-18T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52620"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:19:50","slug":"quick-whats-the-difference-between-fake-news-and-hypernormalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52620","title":{"rendered":"Quick: What\u2019s The Difference Between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quick: What\u2019s The Difference Between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before the current Coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian government took delivery of the Broadband Telecom Legislative Review.  The 235-page report offered 97 recommendations for revamping internet and broadcasting oversight, most of them bad ones. Among them were provisions for requiring all content creators to obtain a license<\/a> for operating from the government and \u201cdiscoverability provisions\u201d to force major tech platforms to emphasize \u201ccredible sources of news\u201d over others (what the government calls \u201cApproved Media\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote an article about it<\/a> at the time and tabled a petition into the House of Commons<\/a> to call on the government to reject BTLR in it\u2019s entirety (still open, so please sign and share<\/a>). More recently the Internet Society Canada Chapter<\/a> (of which I\u2019m a board member) submitted a point-for-point critique of the framework (it\u2019s not on the site yet, will link when it is).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after that the government-funded CBC marshalled a gaggle of \u201cApproved Media\u201d in Canada (no doubt one of entities who will receive part of that $600,000,000 subsidy<\/a> package announced in the run up to the last election) to call forth the government to legislate \u201ctrusted sources\u201d of news<\/a>\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re with me so far, the logic flows like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The latest beat in this march toward CCP-style control over the narrative is the federal governments\u2019 latest declaration<\/a> that \u201cthey are open to new laws against spreading pandemic misinformation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal government is considering introducing legislation to make it an offence to knowingly spread misinformation that could harm people, says Privy Council President Dominic LeBlanc. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rex Murphy\u00a0was quick out of the gate<\/a>\u00a0with a scathing criticism of the idea, drawing the quite apt parallel to the similarity any Canadian legislation to control the narrative would be the same as the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s total control in that country, and we see firsthand the horrors that causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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