{"id":466704,"date":"2022-06-22T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-youtubers-like-me-oppose-bill-c-11\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:37:00","slug":"why-youtubers-like-me-oppose-bill-c-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-youtubers-like-me-oppose-bill-c-11\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why YouTubers like me oppose Bill C-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fd260cbf2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fd260cbf2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-youtubers-like-me-oppose-bill-c-11\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_YouTubers_like_me_oppose_Bill_C-11%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why YouTubers like me oppose Bill C-11&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_YouTubers_like_me_oppose_Bill_C-11%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why YouTubers like me oppose Bill C-11&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            Canadian creators are at risk of having their content and visibility diminished by the passing of the Online Streaming Act, says <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>r J.J. McCullough, who recently opposed Bill C-11 in Parliament.\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        <i>On Tuesday, Bill C-11, a law that will regulate online media from services such as YouTube or Netflix passed through to the Senate, leaving and YouTubers and other content creators in Canada increasingly worried that the bill threatens the way content creators earn a living <\/i><i>by affecting visibility and potentially limiting video views<\/i><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Referred to as the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11<\/i><i>intends to highlight and promote Canadian content\u2014CanCon in the world of streaming\u2014<\/i><i>and would put online content under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). This would require streaming platforms to showcase Canadian content more than they currently do.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That means that platforms like Netflix would have to recommend more Canadian-made shows like <\/i>Schitt\u2019s Creek<i> or other Canadian-made content ahead of non-Canadian content.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This is a worry for content creators on YouTube in particular, where its algorithm curates and recommends videos based on feedback from users based on everything from how long a video is viewed to how quickly it is skipped.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Canadian YouTuber J.J. McCullough has 782,000 subscribers to his channel. He spoke at a Parliamentary hearing earlier this month to oppose the Online Streaming Act and its introduction into Canadian law and shares his thoughts on the experience and potential impact of Bill C-11:\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hearing was revealing. I\u2019ve never been part of a parliamentary committee before, so I put a lot of effort into trying to come up with a powerful opening statement and people responded quite favorably to it. I took the process seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My opening statement opposing Bill C-11, the awful YouTube bill\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4fuMKeGRMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had worked in television for a few years as a TV political pundit and so I had gotten comfortable being on camera. I worked for Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> in its final years and when it shut down in 2015, I was abruptly out of a job. That was when I started my YouTube channel and I\u2019ve been doing it for over six years now\u2014but only professionally for the last two or so, in terms of it being my primary source of income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be exhausting. You write the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>s, film the videos, edit them and add all the sound effects and graphics and all those things. But I like creative projects. It\u2019s very rewarding to see the reactions that my content gets, especially from young people. As I get older, I feel like there\u2019s a paternalistic side to me that\u2019s coming out more and so I like to know that I\u2019m helping and that\u2019s very rewarding and very validating to me because that\u2019s ultimately what I got into this business to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m grateful to have the chance to do this full-time, but my new career now seems at-risk now with Bill C-11; it\u2019s crushing that so much hard work and passion could now disappear because of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way that YouTube works at present is that the content audiences discover is determined by a control algorithm that recommends videos based on what YouTube perceives the user to be interested in. For example, if my YouTube habit suggests that I\u2019m interested in cooking videos, then YouTube will naturally recommend a lot of cooking videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We know from the text of the bill that the CRTC is going to be given a mandate to promote the \u2018discoverability\u2019 of Canadian content, specifically, and that websites under the CRTC jurisdiction, such as YouTube, will be obligated to comply with this discoverability mandate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What this means is that the CRTC is going to have to come up with some sort of criteria for what is good Canadian content and then YouTube is going to have to live up to its legal obligations to promote and recommend that content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overnight, creators are going to wake up and find the kind of content that has previously been successful in an unregulated YouTube is no longer successful in a regulated YouTube. As a result, they will either have to change the nature of content that they make in order to make it more overtly Canadian\u2014whatever that means\u2014or they could possibly be at a disadvantage. That could mean their viewership, and thus revenues, take a hit. That\u2019s something that I think is quite worrying to a lot of YouTubers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The thing that really struck me from the parliamentary hearings\u2014and this is just a personal insight\u2014was that when witnesses are testifying, you would think they\u2019re the center of attention. But when you\u2019re there in-person, almost none of the politicians seem to be listening at all. Everybody is just on their phone. It was incredibly upsetting and disrespectful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It felt like whistling in the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014\u00a0As told to Nicholas Seles <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"under-article-widget-nl\">\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-title\">Looking for more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"under-article-widget-description\">Get the best of <em>Maclean<\/em>&#8216;s sent straight to your inbox. 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