RADIOOctober 06, 2023

Canada threatens to CENSOR podcasts & streaming. Will America be next?

Canada may soon start censoring and regulating streaming services and social media platforms and forcing podcasters to register with the government. "You don't want a regulated 'Internet Podcast Council,'" Glenn warns. And he believes it probably won't be long before leftists try passing similar laws in the United States. Glenn speaks with Toronto Sun political columnist Brian Lilley, who gave one of Glenn's favorite responses to the Canadian government on X: "Go to hell." Brian reveals the disturbing way Canada is trying to sneak these new regulations past its citizens and whether or not this is the beginning of a much larger attempt to silence voices.

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GLENN: Canada is now on the track to censor and regulate streaming services and social media platforms.

They're -- they've got more regulation coming. Podcasters are going to have to register now, with the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission.

That's like our FCC.

You don't want a regulated internet podcast council.

The online streaming ad, formerly bill C11 goes into effect, November 28th.

Meaning any online streaming service, that operates in Canada. Generates revenue of more than 10 million, in any given year, will have to register with CRTC.

That's the Canadian government. Pitches the new rule as a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances. To do that, we need broad engagement. And robust, public records.

It requires those podcasters to register with the government, only once, and collect all of its basic information from them. They have a new streaming service having to provide information about their activities in Canada.

Wow. That doesn't sound dystopian at all.

One of our friends to the program, actually wrote, I think, one of the better comebacks, for this.

Brian Lilley wrote the CRTC, now wants to regulate the podcast.

Here's my simple message to them: Go to hell.

Brian Lilley is on the phone with us now from Canada. Hello, Brian.

BRIAN: Hello, Glenn. I didn't think I would be able to say "go to hell" on the program. I thought I would have to say "go to Pat Gray's hometown." But, you know, there you said it. So I can say it. But I can also say it in Canada. In the future, I don't know. This is a bizarre act. Because you guys follow politics closely. Sometimes politicians pass a law. It's very descriptive. And it details everything.

I wish they passed a broad law, and then they would lead the rest up to regulations.

So, you know, some people are saying, well, this podcast registry, and the whole bill will lead to censorship. And the defenders are saying. No. No.

It won't. I'm saying, actually, it could.

And that's a problem. Because so much of it is left up to regulation of our broadcast regulator, which has done such a bang-up job.

That they'll regulate the internet now. Check out the website. It looks like it was built for the Netscape Navigator era.

GLENN: So are you concerned about -- I mean, they have done everything they could to shut you up. To shut up Rebel News. Toronto Sun. All of this stuff. How concerned are you, that this is the beginning of the shutdown of voices in Canada?

BRIAN: I am concerned. And I'll give you an example from a podcast episode, that we just dropped today.

So there was a podcast called full comment.

My employer. They own the Toronto Sun, and a bunch of other newspapers. Conservative media newspaper, like National Post.

And interviewed this woman named Katherine Birbalsingh, and she's known as a strict head mistress. Maybe you've heard of her. She runs the school. Inner City London. The kids have to walk through the hallways silently. There's dress codes. There's strict measures in place. There's expectations. Traditional curriculum.

I tell you that that is going to upset a lot of people in the education system in this country, just like it will with yours. People believe, there should be no rules.

That the kids should be at the center of everything. The kids don't matter.

You know, if this is in place, somebody could complain. Then that podcast will be taken down.

I'm not saying that will happen. But the rules are in such a way that anybody you say, that upsets anybody, who is on the progressive side. That could definitely end up taking away -- you know, my ability to put forward interesting ideas and information.

GLENN: So do you know about Chloe Cole?

BRIAN: Yes.

GLENN: Okay. So Chloe Cole has detransitioned, and is on the speaking tour all the time now. Speaking out. She's a brave, brave girl. And she was speaking out how bad it was for her when she was 11 to 12. And she had her breasts removed. And she can't have children most likely.

And it's bad. Really bad.

She was giving an event, gets the treatments and surgeries, on minors.

She was, you know, going to speak at a ticket -- ticketed event.

And Eventbrite deplatformed the event, because it violated their policy on hateful, violent, and dangerous events.

Now, how is that -- how does that make sense to anybody?

BRIAN: Well, it -- it doesn't. And that's why I am using this podcast registry.

There's a lot of incidents where it ends up being self-censorship on corporations, or Jordan Peterson's case.

You know, I know you've talked to him just a couple of weeks ago, after he lost to the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

He had to undergo reeducation training.

GLENN: Is he going to do it?

BRIAN: No. I think he told them to go to hell in Montana, and he's challenging them in court.

And last I talked to them, he was still quite defined, as he should be.

But we've got enough self-censorship already.

We don't need this. And while I understand, that we can update the Broadcasting Act. There's certain things that need to be done.

The Trudeau government said, we need to update the Broadcast Act. Great. Let's put in all kinds of stuff that could lead to bad places.

Let's make it so our civil servants. Our appointees will control what can be said, online.

Because they said, they wouldn't control social media. Then they came right out and said, yes, we will.

If you're broadcasting. So if you're doing what Tucker Carlson does. On X. And you start promising videos.

You're going to be regulated.

And as they said, well, we're just regulating the online streamers.

We're regulating the platforms. Not the individual users.

That's like saying, I'm going to regulate the highways. But not the individual drivers.

You know, pass all these new rules on how we have to drive on the highway. That doesn't supply individual drivers on the highway.

GLENN: And it also, it also -- if they say, we will just do this to the platforms. Well, then the platforms will enforce it.

That's what's happening here in America. They're just saying, what do we have to do to impress upon you, your responsibility to stop this kind of talk.

We can come up with some harsh regulations for you, you know.

Then they self-regulate.

Then they do all the butcheries. So the government doesn't have to.

Sounds like a very difficult thing.

BRIAN: It really is. In fact, Chloe Cole, you mentioned earlier. We're having a big debate in this country over parental rights around gender identity in the school.

And activists can change their name. Their gender pronoun in school.

Mom and dad cannot find out. Well, this thing in our media is very controversial. A poll out, just a couple of weeks ago, showed 78 percent believed that the parents should know.

That's not a controversial position. The 14 percent, should think, mom and dad, shouldn't be told.

That's where our Prime Minister is, by the way.

You put all of that into this context of the regulators deciding what the rules are, for what you can say online.

We're in a very dangerous place.

And so this -- this is a horrible bill.

I've been screaming about it, since they introduced it.

It went through a whole election. And had to reintroduce it. Because it didn't pass in time. And the conservatives really tried to get young people, especially to be interested in this. And they couldn't be.

We had our last election in the middle of COVID. Justin Trudeau scared suburban moms into voting for them.

If they didn't vote for them. We would all get COVID to die. Or not be allowed to have abortions with a gun to your head.

GLENN: Well, I know you're busy. Guys up in Canada, have to celebrate another Nazi I think today. So --

BRIAN: Well, you know, I'm sure we can find stuff. We can Russell stuff up.

GLENN: Well, you don't have to. Because the Russian disinformation leap will provide them for you. You just have to root them out.

BRIAN: Of all the things of our prime ministers to do.

Like, you know, he -- he is talking about Russian disinformation.

He just gave them all the ammunition they need to sit there and say, Ukraine is full of Nazis.
Because he had Zelinsky applaud one.

And then says, well, it's not my fault.

I didn't do any vetting.

It's kind of your job when you're the leader of the country. Or your staff's job. Make sure that a foreign visit goes well.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. I would be -- I have seen Ronald Reagan. Or really any president.
I say that. I should say, anybody on the right. Bringing up an old Nazi. And we should really celebrate this guy.

They bring up old Marxists from time to time. But not Nazis.

All right. Best of luck you to, man.

GLENN: Thank you, guys. Guess Canada is out.

Not going to be able to go there.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

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Is Socialism replacing the American dream?

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

Transcript

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.