• CRTC drops plan to allow fake news (Canada)
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[quote] [img]http://www.vancouversun.com/news/4250962.bin[/img] OTTAWA — Canada's broadcasting regulator has dropped a contentious proposal that would have changed its regulations so that TV and radio stations would be allowed to broadcast fake or misleading news. Konrad von Finckenstein, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, said the broadcasting watchdog abandoned the suggested change once a parliamentary regulations committee agreed to drop the issue last week. Von Finckenstein said the CRTC did not want to pursue the proposal at all and that it was happy to withdraw the amendment, according to The Wire Report, a specialty publication that follows broadcasting, telecommunications and digital media in Canada. "We never wanted to touch this thing. We put it forward because we were ordered to do it," von Finckenstein told reporters at a recent news conference. "All I can say is, 'Thank you committee.' I will withdraw this proposal tomorrow. This is the end of the issue," he said. He said the commission was content with current laws that ban fake news but that it was coerced into making amendments in late 2010. The committee had discussed the issue with the CRTC 10 years ago, and von Finckenstein "stalled" for a decade. But once the CRTC studied the amendment by offering public input, Canadians expressed outrage and concern that the commission was about to allow distorted reporting. © Copyright (c) Postmedia News[/quote] Source is [url]http://www.vancouversun.com/news/CRTC+drops+plan+allow+fake+news/4350608/story.html[/url] I'm pretty happy about this. Sorry if this is late, I didn't find anything in search.
So... Fox is banned from Canada? Sanity 1 Retardation 0
Good, Fox doesn't belong in Canada anyways.
Fuck yeah, proud to be Canadian. :canada:
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[quote]CRTC [B]drops plan[/B] to [B]allow[/B] fake news (Canada)[/quote] [quote][I]happy to [B]drop a proposal[/B] to [B]ban[/B] the broadcasting of misleading or fake news.[/quote] [/I]I am genuinely confused. So did they plan to allow or to ban broadcasting fake news?
No they're banning proposals to drop banning proposals to fake fake banned fake dropped news. Hope that clears it up for you.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;28298281][/I]I am genuinely confused. So did they plan to allow or to ban broadcasting fake news?[/QUOTE] The writer probably goofed up in his grammar. Fake news is banned.
Yes! Yessss!!
Thank god.
the proposal actually passed, this [I]is[/I] fake news
Fake news about banning fake news, this is insane.
In other news, Canada has sunken to the bottom of the ocean.
CRTC is hated by pretty much every Canadian now, every single tiny thing they do will come under heavy scrutiny from now on. [editline]26th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;28298281][/I]I am genuinely confused. So did they plan to allow or to ban broadcasting fake news?[/QUOTE] Just to confirm what people have already stated, knowingly broadcasting false news isn't allowed here. The proposal was to change that, but now they've apparently dropped that proposal. Good, I say.
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