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Walking out behind Bryce in the fitting room “is that a better size for him?” the store assistant asked, grabbing his arm so he can stand in front of the long mirror “yes it is, it fits better” crouching down to him “we finna get your haircut and then you going to look just as fly as me, you like this?” Bryce is a very shy kid, he walked into me hiding “I think it will be fine for him” my family decided to go and see family in Idaho, so they been staying there which is a blessing to me, it only leaves me and Josiah. But then that left Bryce with nowhere to go because Celine is a whore, I felt bad and said to Josiah we splitting duties. At the end of the day he’s my nephew and I want him to grow up right, I am over it now. Celine straight up dropped him off and said she is going to Maimi for a week, Josiah answered the door because if I did, I would have dragged her ass but she thinks she can drop this child off when she wants. We have a family wedding coming up soon so I am buying him some clothes “shall we get them off now?” getting up from my position “come” he held my hand, I don’t think this child talks at all “is this your child?” the store assistant asked and I was quick to say “no, hell no. I mean he’s my nephew, he’s very quiet” walking back into the fitting room, I was actually thinking. Knowing Celine, she probably drank and had drugs with this child. I mean he is normal looking but I don’t think he is right in the mind or he hasn’t had guidance or even love, maybe it’s love. He’s going to be two and he doesn’t speak, he says maybe hi at time and some random shit but that is it “that’s a good boy, you can undress yourself” least he can do it.

I bought him a few more things, I am trying to be a better person. Picking Bryce up and placing him on the counter as the lady tallied the total up “that’s all for you nephew” the lady smiled at Bryce “he is so adorable” Bryce smiled and looked away “he must like you, he don’t smile at many people. I think he already knows beautiful women” the store assistant gasped with the biggest smile on her face “erm, thank you?” she didn’t know what to say “no problem” she looked back at the till “erm that is hundred and thirty six dollars and seventy two cents” digging into my pocket “he’s lucky to have you as an uncle” I chuckled “you think? First time bringing him out, I think he cost too much” passing the assistant the cash “he’s a cutie” taking the bags from the counter “you ever hear that saying? A guy with a child is more of a turn on?” I couldn’t help but laugh “you saying having a child with me I can pull women?” grabbing Bryce to get him down “there is one thing though, I don’t need a child to pull any woman. I can do it on my own” I shrugged, she held out my change “see you around, Zoey” her smile grew, she just bit her bottom lip staring at me “I would ask for your number” licking my lips as I walked off “I’m taken beautiful” I winked at her, I may still be fat but I still got it in me.

Pulling Bryce up onto my lap as we sat down just outside the H&M store we went too, looking at the receipt before I placed it in the bag “you happy now?” he rested his head on my shoulder, I am guessing yes then. I wish my mom was here now, I swear when Josiah walked into the home with this child and said we have him for a week, I wanted to kill him. I was like we have the house to ourselves and we can relax, but no “shall we go and get you some toys now or you want food?” I forgot when he ate now, he ate when I did so I am currently hungry “eat” Bryce said “that’s what I am saying boy! You need to speak to me” I am tired as shit actually. Sofia is childish as shit, she ain’t speaking to me. Her form of punishment but yet texts me goodnight, I don’t understand her at all “you know at first I was like that can’t be him and then I look closer, and it is” looking away from Bryce and up at the person speaking to me “are you stalking me?” the first thing that came out from my mouth “not exactly, I came shopping with my brother. He needs some school shoes” so this is Sofia’ brother, he looks like a pain in the ass but I won’t say that. Looking back at Sofia “how is life treating you? I am her work colleague” I lied “you look like a drug dealer” I opened my mouth and then closed it “wow, is that what you teach him? What does a drug dealer look like exactly?” he’s cheeky “my sister works in a office, you got Rolex and big chains and stuff. I’m right Sofia aren’t I?” looking up at Sofia “is he?” I said to her “Leyton, don’t be cheeky” she didn’t agree with him “it’s like fate brings us together even when you are not speaking to me” she’s just stubborn “how you finding it without me?” I smiled at her “fun” I have to annoy her “I don’t have to deal with your snoring, your constant annoyance. It’s great” she put a finger up at me “well I am glad you’re playing daddy day care” she pointed at me “you mean I am being a good human, you think I am a bad person but I’m not” I wish she would stop being like this with me “Sofia, can I go there and get a cookie? I will be back?” her brother said “erm yeah, hurry up” she made herself comfortable and sat next to me.

“How come you have Celine’ son with you?” Sofia asked “because, I’ve been keeping this away from you, but he’s really my child” Sofia hit my arm “I will kill you” my eyes widened “and your brother calls me the drug dealer, when you want to kill me? Just admit you miss and we can go back to the regular schedule, my parents have gone. The house is mine, ok Celine decided to bring him along but if you don’t stop being hard headed you could be with me” Sofia rolled her eyes “what exactly is going to make you change?” I sighed out “we have spoke on this, I have changed some of it for you. You making me feel I am stuck again, I hate feeling like this. I am sorry I am not normal ok, that is what you want. You can stop speaking to me for a month but nothing will change more, if you love me then love me. You don’t have to love what I do but love me, I did choose you. You know what, this is on you. You can decide on what you want to do” moving Bryce off of my lap “I know what I want but you can’t accept what I am, your friends have the perfect life. I don’t” picking up the bags from the floor, I will let her decide.

Cassius is so silly, he thinks I want him perfect. It was never that, I just want him to be safe, I want a future with him. I love him so much, it’s crazy how in love I am with him. He said his parents are gone so it should be only Josiah here, it’s weird because both of his cars are here, he did say his old car was in repair. I thought I would come and see him myself, show him what I want and that is him. We just need to speak on what we both want, I need to probably be fair to him but I do have something for him, well an idea. Locking my car door behind me, it’s a little late and I have been contemplating on not walking in because what if his parents are here, I don’t want them to attack me but the home looks pretty dead so let me test this. Walking up the path, I will actually kill Cassius if his parents are here. I can deal with Josiah, not his sister though but I will tell her to shut up if she tried to disrespect me. Pressing the doorbell, these are the only black family I know of that their doorbell works, I mean most of the time they don’t. I hope he is home, knowing him he is probably asleep “I wonder who is at the door” hearing Josiah say, stepping back a little as he opened the door “oh” he said “is Cassius here?” seeing Celine’ child here “erm, he isn’t. He went out, he did say he would be back though” it’s late already so where is he “erm, you can come in?” this is what I mean about Josiah he is the sweet twin.

Sitting down slowly, this is weird for me. I mean his parents would’ve probably kicked me out “how have you been?” Josiah finally sat with me, he has been hiding away from me “good, I was just feeding Bryce, that is why I was not here” I judged him too early “how come you and your brother are watching him?” Bryce is very shy “we wasn’t supposed too, Celine just popped up. I did tell my mom and she said if we good then leave us to it, he’s a good kid. He chills with us” he’s actually my cousin “that’s good” I hope Cassius isn’t too long “so how long have you been dating Cassius?” I paused not saying a word “who told you I was dating him? I mean we could be friends?” Josiah laughed “Celine came to the home and sang like a bird, my parents know now and then Cassius admitted to it. I didn’t ever agree to how my twin treated you” I swallowed hard “I chose the wrong twin” Josiah laughed “it’s weird how Jordan never got this calm trait from you guys, Jasmine is a little like Jordan though. I know that” hearing the front door open “you ain’t wrong and that must be him” I hope it is “C!?” Bryce actually speaks “yeah, uncle C is here. Go and get him” he ran off “have you ever though of taking him off my cousin? The child would be better off without her, it looks like she has already destroyed him a little” it’s sad “why ain’t you asleep young one?” that is Cassius “Josiah, wasn’t you supposed to feed and put him to sleep ages ago” Cassius walked in with his nephew in hand “I was busy doing other things but Sofia is here” Cassius stared at me “someone got some balls coming here” Cassius put Bryce down “come” he waved me over to him.

Following him up the stairs “where have you been?” I asked, I had to ask “you want the truth?” I sighed out “I was giving money out to the workers” rolling my eyes “right” I want to hit him, in the face too “so you’re the first girl to enter this room, I didn’t bring any girl home either so it’s a first” he opened the bedroom door “it’s a little messy, don’t touch any of the balled up tissues” pulling a face at him “seriously? At your age, that is nasty” he closed the door behind me, and then quickly ran by me and picked something off of the side table. His bedroom is cute actually “what was that you just picked up?” walking closer inside “oh wow, Cassius” I said in shock “uhm yeah, my graduation picture” he looks so cute “you graduated?” I don’t remember him saying that “yeah, I didn’t get accounting randomly. It was something I wanted to do” he has so many pictures “what about this?” I pointed “that was when my mom made me take professional pictures with our dog, she died now but I miss her. I was like eighteen here” he is so sentimental and he doesn’t even notice it “you look like your dad, a lot actually, feature wise. I didn’t expect this from your room actually. And these boys who are they?” I pointed “Myles and Kyle, my best friends. We was in High School. We started our empire in that place” turning around “Oh right, what did you just move though?” he did move something “just something” he shrugged moving back “you like the Brooklyn Nets then? But show me” he laughed “it’s dumb but yeah I do” he is being annoying “shit is just cheesy, like you know. I like things” he makes no sense, he bought the thing he was hiding forward “I just keep it on the side table, you know. I like pictures, I just wake up and then boom” taking the framed picture “Cassius” staring down at the picture of us on our first date “that is so cute” he kissed his teeth “this is why I didn’t want you to see, everything cute with you” he snatched away the photo from me “you’re s sensitive soul Cassius” he really is “here yes, out there no. I ain’t that out there” he placed the picture back.

If there is only men here, who made his bed “you got a maid in this place?” I asked as I sat on his bed “nope” he answered “then who made your bed?” it’s made well “me, I was locked away I had to make my own thing. I learnt, now I just always keep my things clean but I am going to need you to do something” staring at him waiting for him to say it “close your eyes, I just need to do something” tilting my head a little “no, what is it?” he knows I won’t “fine” he turned around, his back towards me. He opened his closet door exposing a safe within there, he unlocked the safe and I am nosey. I moved a little to look in there “I’ve never seen a gun before” Cassius looked behind him and stared at me “you don’t need too” watching him take the gun out from his jacket “you know I am hating this right now” he turned to me, my heart skipped a beat seeing him hold that gun. He took the clip out and walked towards me “what is it like to be this?” I am interested to know him more, looking up at Cassius. My heart is beating so fast right now, just that gun near me “to be like what? You want to know what it feels like to hold a gun? The clip is out, you can’t hurt anyone” I swallowed hard “it’s ok Sofia, it won’t do anything” I held my hand out, I might as well stop being a scary bitch. He placed the gun in my hand “the clip is here” I am actually holding a gun “wait, did you use this too..” I trailed off, Cassius sat next to me on his bed “nah, this is a new one. Don’t worry about it” I was about to say.

This is a weird feeling to hold “how do you feel, to hold a gun?” he asked “there is a different feeling to hold such a thing” I mumbled “power” that is the word, Cassius chuckled at me and kissed my cheek “you asked what is it like to be like this, that keeps me safe. Yes it’s power but that is my protection” nodding my head, looking over at him “when you actually aim this, what do you think? What is the first thing to come into your mind?” I am holding this thing like it’s nothing now “it’s either me or him, that is it. It’s either kill or be killed. When I got beaten, the first thing I thought was. I don’t want to die, I never felt that before. I was touching death, so many times it was like touch and go, my niggas rode for me. I owe them, but I wasn’t expecting it. If I was they would all be gone” this is what I hate to know, he means so much to me “did you think of me?” I had to ask “hell yes, this is why you on my side table. You my baby” my heart right now “some of these niggas are dumb, when they shoot. They panic shoot, which is crazy because they shoot everywhere but the person. When I shoot, it’s precision. Always be calm, panic shooting gets you shot” Cassius placed his clip in his lap, wrapping his arm around my shoulder “I always got use to shooting with one hand but learned to work the gun and always shoot to aim. Hold your gun up” he navigated my arm up “so you ready the gun” he cocked it back for me “then when you ready press the trigger” this is a very weird feeling to feel “now you know how I feel, you don’t ever see those people as people that want good for you, you have to blank that out. The person at the other end of this gun is the person that will kill you” moving the gun back, looking over at Cassius “have you killed more then you are letting on? People don’t just make a name for themselves for nothing” he took the gun from me.

He hasn’t answered me, he continued to put his gun in the safe “would it make a difference? I’ve been handling guns since I was fifteen, I’ve hurt many, that is it” he closed the door “you have been doing this for years and still managed to get a degree?” I am shocked “and I paid it all off too, it’s called hard work Sofia. I did my thing, I had homeboys ride for me, those bad niggas rode for me throughout that. It was something I wanted to do, not every drug dealer is stupid. The stupid ones get caught, I only got fucked over because of my brother but I tend to stay away from the term drug dealer because I don’t do the street walking. I may at times help out like I did. But I stopped that, I mean not all of it. I am trying to play this clever, I can’t be just now coming out to niggas like I am legit and I walk out of the office in a suit like I wouldn’t get shot. Pre-Sofia then maybe yes, I wouldn’t care but I do now. I want to change” nodding my head “you said your car was in repair but it’s outside” Cassius laughed “you don’t miss a thing, I didn’t want to say it to you. I am just trying to clean the money, I am selling the car now. I may be losing some of the money but who cares, if I ever get caught with this money, I have a trail on where it came from” I didn’t ever think he played such a big part of this empire he spoke on but he does, I swallowed hard “did you ever think you would be in love?” Cassius shook his head “what is with the questions, nah. Hell no, I think it’s something still so foreign to me, I am learning. I love learning new things anyways, it’s making me care more about me” that is what I want to hear “you said you want to be a father, you think this is a time you would want them to arrive on? At this moment in time?” Cassius shrugged “I ain’t even going to front, you asking lifestyle questions here, what is it?” he isn’t wrong “I just want to know where your mind is at, I want to know your life. What you do, understand it more. And I do, I wanted to give you a chance, I am glad I did” I want to know more “we can talk more, you want to stay over? My parents ain’t back for about a whole week, they just kind of left” I can actually stay here “Can I? I do have work but I would love to wake up to you, I need to get my clothes though” this is everything and more “come, I will drive you” we can talk so much.

Sofia is either bringing her whole wardrobe or she fallen asleep, she is taking so long. How can it be that hard to bring some clothes along, then again women need their make up too. Maybe it was a bad idea because she has taken half hour in her home, I mean I am happy actually I can get a feel for how she will be when we do live with each other. I didn’t plan on letting Sofia hold the gun, I thought she would have ran off as soon as she saw it but she didn’t. I am guessing the time away and her thinking as made her calm down, but she will bring it up about me leaving. Lifting my head forward, hold up is that Sofia’ mom. What on earth is happening here and Sofia has a whole ass suitcase, what the fuck. What do I do, opening the car door. It’s midnight and these two are being loud, what is this. Do I get involved “open the trunk!” Sofia spat, leaning into my car and pressing the button to open it “you! I know you” seeing the woman walk towards me “you! You are a bad man, you and that family of yours and now you are taking her away from me! Your brother hurt my daughter and now you. She is so blinded by you! I know your kind, your face and your name. You’re a criminal” she has been searching me “Mrs Bundy, Sofia’ mom. I ain’t here to do anything, I think you are doing this on your own. What my brother did was him, I got him locked away and I ain’t nothing like him” Sofia got in front of her mother “Mom, you leave him alone. You be quiet and get inside” her mother glared at me “I know men like him, I bet he even knows your deadbeat dad! Drug dealers and gangbangers are alike, you dare get my daughter pregnant like you did Celine I will kill you myself! She will see the truth” Sofia’ mom pushed her own daughter “don’t fucking come home!” this is a mess, what happened to Sofia being quiet getting her shit.

All I am thinking is that, did her mom mean about her not coming home “are you good?” I asked as I stopped at a red light “fine, my mother is just so scorned by men that she doesn’t understand her behaviour pushes me away” I feel bad as shit “I see, did she really mean about you not coming back? What happened?” I don’t understand what went wrong “I let it slip, she assumes I was being with Mia, I am twenty four having to lie. And she was just talking to me and I just let it slip I said he isn’t about to have make-up so I have to pack everything but it came out so naturally. She then went crazy on my ass, it’s like” Sofia paused “it’s like she is waiting for something bad to happen to me to say I told you so” parents are crazy, driving off slowly “Cassius, you want to move? Move away from this place. I have been thinking and planning, not with you but in my head I have” glancing over at Sofia “you want to move to Atlanta?” I said “how do you know?” she said confused “I remember the things you say, I will say one thing. We can’t just up and leave, I would like to check the place out first. But for now, if your mom has kicked you out I will pay for you to be in an apartment. I ain’t saying no, I am wanting to move anyways. I just want to do it properly, work it out properly” I like to know plans, feeling a kiss to my cheek “I love you so much Cassius” that was sweet.

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Hello Folk. What is going on with the viewers across the two? I’m sure you know by now, but if not, my name is Tyler. Welcome to the channel that is more vocal than this little pooch stuck in a drive-through line. This is how lines work, Walter. You can’t just go to the front because you’re Walter Jeffrey. That’s not what it is. You know, you’re not even popular here in Austin, Texas, to be honest. You know our Hounddog. How? It’s time for Chico Krypto. If you didn’t know the real fun began yesterday, my friends, miners in the Bitcoin industry started to realize their profits were being slashed in half. The reward is now officially six point two five BTC per block, or just 900 new bitcoins per day or at current prices, over seventy-nine million dollars per day. Although over the weekend it was twelve point five BTC per block or eighteen hundred new bitcoins per day, or at current prices over one hundred and fifty-eight million dollars. So some miners out there are definitely feeling the pain. But when you check out the hash rate chart over the past seven days, it’s not a terrible miner purge. Yet as a hash rate dipped from one hundred and thirty-six million Tarah hashes to one hundred and twenty-five million hashes, a purge of just eight percent. And with the hash rate staying where it is with the network difficulty’s where it is up. Prices have to stay here or above for a significant majority of the miners to stay profitable. A ton of operations in the US, Europe and Australia are actually losing money at these current prices. But even with the dips into the seven K and high six K range operations in Eastern Europe, Russia and China even become unprofitable. But only if the hash rate and difficulty are around the same level. And this can be seen with pretty having break-even data with miners and certain electricity costs. If you are paying one cent per kilowatt-hour, you were extremely profitable. Pree having even when 25 percent goes to other costs like cooling as break-even was still under fifteen hundred dollars. But not too many places pay that cheap. Even in China now up to the seven percent kilowatt-hours where miners would break even or begin to lose money based on an additional cost. But now with having you have to realize that the costs have doubled for the BTC miners and those break evens have all been multiplied by two, which means prices for these operations have to increase or the miners will be subjected to Bitcoin prices below their break evens, which means they are then forced to sell not only all of the coins they mine on an ongoing basis, but they may also be forced to tap into their balance sheet reserves, causing additional selling pressure on top of their persistent ongoing sales. And you know, what that mining data showed was taken by coin chairs and investment and research company and their chief strategy officer Milton de Meir’s, who is a total babe, by the way, said this when referencing the firm’s observations of the mining industry. I think miners are looking to opportunistically offload some of their Bitcoin inventory to add operating capital to their balance sheet. We’ve been talking to a number of miners on coin shares, capital broker-dealer side. Are looking at raising capital to build out new facilities, to buy new machines and to extend their capacity, raise capital. That means selling more BTC than usual unless the price goes up. What could make the price go up? For the short to medium term? Well, the Federal Reserve said in a press release, New York Fed announced the start of certain secondary market corporate credit facility purchases on May 12. Yep. Yesterday, some crazy brand new thing the Fed and the Treasury Department conjured called the secondary market corporate credit facility s.M CCF went live. Of course, it was established because of the virus. But according to the Fed’s own documentation on what it does, the s.m CCF they purchase in the secondary market, corporate bonds issued by investment-grade U.S. companies or certain U.S. companies that were investment grade. As of March 22nd, two thousand glens. So the key here is they need to be investment-grade corporate bonds or ETF, which means A rating of triple B minus or above. No junk bonds. But there is a loophole or certain companies that were investment grade. As of March 22nd, 2020. So they can currently buy junk bonds as long as they were investment grade before the viral panic. Now, Bloomberg also covered the launch of this facility and they covered a certain ETF in their article, forty-four point six billion shares, ie box investment-grade corporate bond ETF rallied point eight percent after the market opened on Tuesday at twenty-one point three billion shares. Eyeborgs high yield a.k.a. junk corporate bond ETF climbed point five percent. Who is behind the icebox. Corporate ETF BlackRock. Financial is. And guess who is a key player in the response to this pandemic. BlackRock Financial is Bloomberg covered it last month. BlackRock. Becomes a key player in crisis response for Trump and the Fed. And in the article, BlackRock has a premiere role in helping Federal Reserve stabilize markets. The central bank has hired the firm to help manage its economic relief efforts, which the Fed admits from another press release of theirs about the s.m CCF on March 24th, 2020. The New York Fed retained BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory as a third party vendor to serve as the investment manager for this facility. Then Steedman Nugent again moves in. Let the world know too, and that they wouldn’t be making money off of them. Let’s listen in. Well, any of the people who are working with us have already agreed to work at very, very, very reduced rates, making sure that, you know, this is a special situation. So we’re not going to be paying big fees to any of these people and we’re gonna make sure there aren’t conflicts in any of the people we hire. And as I said, they’ll be full transparency. So the president is right. He’s asked me. I’m sorry. Go ahead, sir. Do you have names for any of those individuals who will be doing this? Would be the Federal Reserve has already announced that they’ve hired BlackRock. BlackRock is one of the largest asset managers in the world. BlackRock was involved in the financial crisis last time. Larry Fink has enormous experience. So that’s one of them that has been disclosed. And as we hire more people, we will fully disclose. OK. Snoots my news then. What is this from a detailed document about the facility? A fee structure for the SNCF is based on the value of corporate bonds and loans acquired and held by the facility. BlackRock will charge one an asset management fee and two program administration fees for setup and operation of the facility. So Stevie Boy, don’t be a CBS or we know BlackRock is going to make bank off of this and become even more powerful. You said it yourself. They helped in the 2008 financial crisis. The CEO, Larry Fink at the helm. It was called BlackRock Decade when Bloomberg in 2018 said how that crash forced a six-point three trillion dollar giant. Yet from this chart, we can see they managed just over a trillion in 2008. By 2017 was over six trillion. I wonder how much they manage in 2004? Well, from a corporate media release, assets under management of three hundred and twenty-one billion. Wow. Now, that is some real growth from three hundred twenty-one billion to today, over seven trillion in just 16 years. Now, if we want some perspective, what BlackRock manages is twenty-nine percent of the national debt of the United States of America. A debt clock shows just over twenty-five point one trillion. But tik-tok, tik-tok. It’s growing by that second, although who brought BlackRock on in 2008 to help with the financial crisis? Well, it was that George W. Bush presidency, as it was May 2008 when they got the call to fix Wall Street. But Obama took over in November of that year. How many times did the Obama White House and BlackRock exact mean? Well, according to BlackRock Transparency Project’s Web site, there were 98 meetings between Obama White House officials and BlackRock executives. Hundred and eighty-five meetings and phone calls between senior BlackRock executives and Treasury secretaries spanning the Bush and Obama administrations. And finally, Obama and Larry Fink CEO personally met 16 times. But what is weird, there is not a single picture of the two together can be found online. But we are doing it all over again with the Trump administration. Now, like for those who are still blindfolded and don’t see each administration from the Bushes to the Obamas to now that Trump’s all have the same damn goal and work with the same damn people. I feel sorry for you, Trump, and think our best friend. They like to play schoolboy push and shove. And now this facility has put us on a dark timeline. It was in 2008 dark. It was just hidden better because of Obama’s squeaky clean image. But now we have shifted to where the dark is clear as day by giving Blakroc full control of this debt buyout program. The Fed is further entwining the roles of government and private actors, and in doing so, it makes Blakroc even more systematically important to the financial system. Yet BlackRock is not subject to the regulatory scrutiny of even smaller financial institutions. All doom and gloom. I know. And I said there could possibly be demand from Bitcoin, from all of this. Remember? Well, back in July of last year, Larry Fink said this firm is evaluating cryptocurrencies. The article states chief executive Larry Fink on Monday said the world’s largest asset manager has assembled a working group to look at blockchain technology and cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin. But caution, he does not see massive investor demand. No demand. Then why just a few months later, in October, the head of your working group said this on a podcast. So we talked about how there was a lot of enthusiasm about crypto in 2008 with the initiation of the first and of Bitcoin if you will. A lot of excitement in 2015, 2016, and then now people kind of roll their eyes. It feels like flashing is a tired password. So where do you think we are in the hype cycle and where do you think it’s going? Even though blockchain and crypto are, you know, fundamentally distinct concepts that may ultimately have different endings, blocks and hype cycle is very much tracked Bitcoin’s cycles. And we’ve had three of those in its 10-year history, the first being from Inception basically through 2011 and the second peaking in late 2013, troughing in 2015. And then, of course, the third peaked in December of seventeen as over the last year and a half. That’s where this trough of disillusionment has really set in, where people have started to tire of the buzz and question whether this is going to be anything but just as is typical INJ or that classic Gartner hype cycle as that is happening on the ground, fundamentals are actually improving. So speed, privacy, security, scalability and real development is happening. And then going back to 2018, the head of your working group, Robby. He has been putting out work regarding Bitcoin and crypto. He co-authored this research paper in June of 2018, a fundamental valuation framework of crypto assets. As we can see from the BIOS, the authors are both connected to that ripple. Susan serves on the board of directors and Robby, he worked for them in the summer of twenty seventeen. And what I find funny from the report is even though they are a rip, had they give Bitcoin a better chance of succeeding, as we can see from Section three-point one model application estimating a fundamental value for BTC and X Arpey, they assign Bitcoin a success rate of 30 percent and a failure rate of 70 percent. End with X our P. We can see they assign success at twenty-five percent. Well, failure is seventy-five percent. They think BTC has a better chance. And what I love is their conclusion. We have demonstrated the practical application of the model on two leading crypto assets, BDC and SRP, and arrived at a fundamental value range day for BTC of thirteen thousand six hundred twenty-eight thousand one hundred four x Arpey of a dollar fifty-nine and eight dollars and twenty-three cents. This result, through calculated using imperfective early precise estimate, suggests that both BTC and ex Sarpy may have significant upside from the current price levels, despite the spectacular price appreciation in both currencies since early 2017. So some doubt Ripple Heads will say, Hey Robby, you work for a ribbed ball for US armour. It means BlackRock and the Fed are now going to be using them. No. As you can see, since they made that evaluation call in June of 2018, that tokens were at forty-five cents. They are now at 19, a one-year loss of nearly 60 percent. Bitcoin, it’s basically where it was actually a tad bit higher as it was below AKCA at the beginning of June in twenty-eighteen. Bitcoin has increased by 10 percent. You would think Robbie, an investor at heart, notices things like that. And here’s a little piece of information we need to come and put together. So we found out in March Brian Brooks, who was Coinbase is chief legal officer, was joining the Treasury Department, reuniting with his old one West friend, Manute Chin Katz, who has been advising Coinbase for the past 18 months. BlackRock and they began exploring a crypto ETF together back in June of twenty eighteen, which suspiciously came one month after Coinbase was the first fintech company to speak with U.S. regulators, the Treasury Department, about acquiring a federal banking license, which was unfortunately stopped by. Yeah. We covered this two weeks ago and the video proof that the dollar is going digital, which the Treasury Department specifically Brian Brooks, has held, Office of the Comptroller appealed, and we are still waiting on that decision. But in the meantime, they want to get things are all in for Bitcoin and crypto. Why do you think yesterday JP Morgan announced they are now providing their banking services to Jemini and Coinbase. So if you take the time to find and connect the pieces, they go right together, like IKEA furniture, no solid directions. But once it’s put together, you realize this is some good shiz net. Cheers. I’ll see you next time.

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The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 27: Digital Policy and Election 2019 – Laura Tribe of OpenMedia on Where the Parties Stand

Digital issues were expected to garner attention in the 2019 Canadian federal election campaign. Over the course of the past few weeks, all the main political parties have had something to say about the high cost of cellphone prices in Canada and the prospect of implementing new taxes on tech companies. Laura Tribe, the Executive Director of OpenMedia, joined the podcast to talk about election 2019 and digital policies in a conversation that focused on wireless services and Internet taxes as well as privacy, intermediary liability, trade, and copyright.

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Global News, Canada Election: Justin Trudeau Announces Cell Phone Cuts, Change to Taxes CBC News, Andrew Scheer’s Full Post-Debate Scrum CTV News, NDP Unveils Plan to Reduce Canadian’s Internet and Cellphone Bills CTV News, Elizabeth May Unveils Green Party Platform in Toronto

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Justin Trudeau: Canadians shouldn’t have to choose between having a cell phone and heating their homes. So we need to get to a place where the cost of cell service is more affordable. That’s why a re-elected Liberal government will cut cell phone bills by 25 percent, saving the average Canadian family of four up to nine hundred seventy six dollars a year.

Andrew Scheer: We believe in in ensuring that robust competition in Canada is that we believe that robust competition is the best way to make sure that Canadians have affordable services.

Jagmeet Singh: This is one of the most frustrating things that Canadians go through. We pay the highest amount for our data, for our cell phone bills and for our broadband broadband in the world. This is incredibly frustrating when so many people rely on this. This is something that is necessary for work, for school. This is necessary for accessing services for so many people. So what we’re gonna do is finally take on this very important role that conservative liberal government have essentially neglected. They haven’t taken on making sure these rates are affordable. So our plan is going to make rates more affordable. It’s going to make your cellphone bills more affordable.

Elizabeth May: We’re going to deal with the problem of e-commerce. These companies that first came to us that seemed virtual and cool, and how could they be damaging? Not only are these companies, whether they’re Facebook or Google or Amazon or Airbnb or Netflix, they operate in this country, take billions of dollars of profits out of this country, pay virtually no tax.

Michael Geist: Digital issues were expected to garner attention in the 2019 Canadian federal election campaign. As the clips that opened this episode suggest, all the main political parties have had something to say about some policies, notably the high cost of cell phone prices in Canada and the prospect of implementing new taxes on tech companies. With this episode scheduled to be released less than a week before voting day, I sat down with Laura Tribe, the executive director of OpenMedia, to talk about election 2019 and digital policies. The conversation focused on wireless services and Internet taxes, but we also found time to discuss privacy, intermediary liability, trade and copyright. Note that the episode was recorded in the afternoon on Thursday, October 10th. The Conservative Party had still not released its full platform, so to the extent possible, we relied instead on comments made throughout the campaign.

Michael Geist: Laura, thanks so much for joining me on the podcast.

Laura Tribe: Thanks for having me.

Michael Geist: OK, that’s great. So as you know, we both know digital issues were expected to play a significant role in the 2019 federal election. And as we record this on Thursday, October 10th, we’re eleven days from voting day. I think it’s fair to say that the reality is, has that been a bit more hit and miss. Students on our campus here at the University of Ottawa have been able to vote for several days already. Advance voting starts tomorrow for everyone else. In fact, we still don’t even have a Conservative platform as we record this. So digital on its own may not have been a huge issue, but it does crop up in a few places. You can see it in the different platforms and even come up in a couple in a little bit in some of the debates, or at least the French language debate around things like affordability and wireless services, cultural policy and economic fairness. So I’m hoping that we can unpack some of those issues, recognizing that we’ve got platforms for everybody but the conservatives. But if you haven’t put something forward 11 days before the election, we’ll go with what we’ve got. Why don’t we start with wireless Internet services, which is of all the issues, certainly is probably attracted the most amount of attention largely through the prism of affordability. What are the parties that are saying something saying about the cost of Internet and wireless services?

Laura Tribe: Yeah, I would say this is definitely the issue that’s gotten the most attention. For the longest portion of the election period to date, so far, we’ve heard things from the Liberals, the NDP and the Green Party who are all talking about affordability in their own right. The Green Party hasn’t put forward any really specific policies. It’s just that they want to address affordability and cell phone bills and increase competition. The two policies that have gotten the most attention are the Liberals and the NDP. The NDP who came out with their plan first is looking specifically at lowering cell phone rates for customers by an average of $10 per person. So they want to do that through rate regulation. That will actually require the providers to lower their prices and make sure that depending on the type of plan, it could come down $7 and $12. But across the board, it would be an average of $10 per person. And they’re also looking at introducing mobile virtual network operators or mvno’s, which are a different type of cell phone provider that will bring a bit more competition into the marketplace. The Liberals following suit promised 25 percent off cell phone rates, which, you know, depending on your plan is probably more than $10. But the way they’re going to do it has really been the thing that they’ve been slammed for. And essentially what they’ve said is they’re going to ask big telecom nicely to lower their rates by 25 percent.

Laura Tribe: And I think that’s really something that they’ve been slammed for and deservingly so. They’ve been in government for four years. We’ve been asking nicely at open media and elsewhere for them to lower their rates for a very long time. And we’ve clearly seen that that’s just not going to happen. So that’s sort of the first piece around how they will lower rates. They’re sort of follow up threat if rates are not lowered is that they are going to also bring in mvno’s to try and lower cell phone rates and bring in more competition. But they’ve introduced it in a bit of a phased approach. So what they’re saying is they will bring them in to some extent if they meet certain criteria. Whatever those qualifications might be that the liberals have decided that include things like the infrastructure and the types of plans that they’re offering and a few other pieces, sort of the values they represent, which I think is problematic in that it’s hard for a company to necessarily match a political party’s values in the same way. But that’s sort of a really minimum entry. And they said that if in two years the cell phone prices have not come down by 25 percent, then they will look at fully mandating mvno’s. And so those are sort of the two biggest platforms. We’ve heard nothing from the Conservative Party other than I think in one article when they were asked. They said they would consider tax rebates with no indication as to what that meant or looked like or how that would work.

Laura Tribe: But I think that fundamentally when it comes to cell phone affordability. It’s really good this is an issue and I will be the first to criticize the policies they’re putting into place to try and do it, but it’s something that people have been talking about for decades and it’s really good to see that it’s on the agenda. I think the problem is that the way the parties are trying to do it and in part it’s just because it’s an election cycle and they’re trying to make sure they can get to voters is by promising the end piece, which is how it will impact your cell phone bill. And really forgetting why our cell phone bills are so high in the first place, which is fundamentally because we do not have enough competition in Canada. And so, you know, the NDP understands there will need to be some government intervention, which is good. They’re talking about mvno’s, which is good. But there is a proceeding in front of the CRTC right now that’s reviewing all of our wireless services and trying to figure out if we do need mvno’s. And I think it’s in all cases really great to see that ? registered, but also raises some questions about if they actually understand why this is the case and how to fix it or if they just think it sounds like a nice promise.

Michael Geist: Right. So, I mean, I agree with you. I think it is good that the issue clearly resonates. And I know that there’s been a number of political commentators have said this is one of the issues of all these issues the parties have been raising that they can see it resonating in part because people can really relate to high cell phone bills. There’s there there’s very little debate anymore as to whether or not we pay very high rates relative to other countries. And so promises to do something about it would intuitively seem attractive. I guess the question becomes, is any of this going to work? So let me ask you a couple of specific questions on the. From the NDP perspective, the rate regulation side, have they talked at all about how that would work, how if they were if we were to have government come in and effectively set rates or set maximum rates or set with the mandated reduction in the rate happens to be? It’s not clear. Have they specified how they would intend to go about doing that?

Laura Tribe: There haven’t been a lot of details into how they would do it. I know they’ve been trying to demonstrate other countries that have had mvno’s mandated and trying to point to those as examples. Not so much in saying they would do it exactly the same way, but to try and say we know that intervention and regulation on mvno’s can work. I think the question in the way that they are approaching mvno’s and the way that they’re approaching affordability in general is that they’re coming at it from the end retail price. And fundamentally, mvno’s are about competition. They’re about bringing more providers in, hopefully lowering the rates themselves. And so I think, you know, getting really deep into the policy weeds of telecom, there’s two layers to that. Mvno’s need wholesale rates to be set, which are then indicative of what the retail rates can be set at. And so it sounds like the NDP is working in reverse. They’re actually saying, here’s it, we want the retail rates to be set at. And there’s an assumption that is not from what the NDP has said, but just in understanding how telecom works, that they will then have to work backwards and say, if we’re going to bring all the retail rates down by 10 percent, then any rates that are for roaming or wholesale will need to therefore be X percent lower to make sure that we can’t increase competition. It’s a pretty complicated approach to fix all those layers. It would definitely require the CRTC to be involved, although that hasn’t sort of how that would work together hasn’t explicitly come out from the NDP. A lot of it’s trying to apply what I know and we know about how telecom policy actually works in Canada to the promises that are being put forward and trying to reverse engineer how it would actually play out.

Michael Geist: Right. Okay. So the NDP promise focusing on prices faces some real implementation challenges. The Liberals have both this notion of we can cajole or talk or talk to her, convince the the incumbents to lower their prices. And I think you’ve made it pretty clear, as most would, that that historically hasn’t didn’t seem to work. And there’s little reason to think that that it would work now. So it sounds like a lot of this talk is being placed in mvno’s as the source of competition. But it sounds as well that with respect to the liberal plan, even that isn’t an immediate solution. It’s kind of like will dip our toe in the water. And if it works, great. And if not, we’ll do more that kind of what they’re saying.

Laura Tribe: Yeah, I think that the Liberals have set the bar for something that is probably going to be achieved with or without them. So their election promises that they can check off when it comes to prices coming down by 25 percent. If you look at your cell bill right now and I think you’re just going to get a 25 percent discount when the Liberals get voted in, I think you’re wrong. But what we do know is that the data that we have right now is so far behind in Canada that there are some that believe and I do not have the evidence to prove this, but there are some that believe that the prices have already come down enough that the liberals will be able to say that they did it just by virtue of when the data is published next. So that’s a, you know, bar they can say that they reached. And when it comes to mvno’s with the CRTC already looking at MVNO is already having them on the table. Essentially what the liberals have promised is the minimum viable product out of that consultation. Which again, doesn’t require them to do anything. It’s just predicting the writing on the wall from the CRTC, whose own consultation and then saying in two years if nothing has happened on those two fronts. Then they will take action, which to me reads like they’re not going to touch telecom for two years, which is why it’s pretty frustrating as someone who’s been working on this for so long to hear them say that we have to keep waiting.

Michael Geist: And it’s a bit surprising, I think, from a liberal perspective, because it’s not as if they haven’t done anything on telecom or at least tried to do something on telecom. When we think of the policy direction or the requirement that CRTC re-examine some of these issues, you’re talking about MVNO’s. The Liberals have tried to push for that. So one would have thought they might have been able to say we’ve been pushing and trying to move in this direction. Here’s what we’re gonna continue to do. They seem to have sort of almost ignored much of what they’ve done in the past in favour of, as you’re suggesting, policy recommendations that they don’t really have to do very much about.

Laura Tribe: Yeah, I think the the policy direction that now requires the CRTC to take things like customers into consideration, which is not the case before, to make sure that affordability is a consideration that they’re looking at for smaller providers like those are really big shifts that we haven’t had a chance to see if and how they truly play out at the CRTC. So there is a really good chance that by virtue of that policy direction, the CRTC is on decision on wireless actually is much better for customers, for smaller providers by virtue of following the policy direction. And there are a lot of pieces that have been put into play, but fundamentally this government’s approach to the CRTC has been like we will keep asking them and hope they get it right. So they have sent the decision on mvno’s back to the CRTC and then when they didn’t get a right kind of like, okay, next tactic and keep sending messages to this year ATC. And I think fundamentally what this platform shows me is that they are unwilling to just own it as a file, that they want to make sure that they are continuing to leave that to the CRTC to solve. And I think that it’s going to take a while to see if the policy direction actually works and where those decisions come to you. But the CRTC is not a fast moving institution. Their decisions understandably take a really long time and we’re not going to see change overnight no matter what the decision is that comes out of the CRTC is wireless proceeding.

Michael Geist: Well, I mean, as you say, it’s good that the issue is is now risen to the level being a true political issue, but I suppose a little discouraging in the sense of some of the solutions that are being proposed because it doesn’t seem like they’re advancing things all that much. One of the other issues that has also attracted some amount of attention, although I think with a fair in a fairly confusing way, is what’s often described as a Netflix tax, which often is said to mean different things. In fact, just this week as we’re recording it, there was, I think, more confusion, where the OECD, advanced the ball a little bit in terms of dealing with corporate tax. And I noted at least one article that said that had at least a couple of political parties saying, well, we want to go further than the OECD. But what they were talking about was not necessarily what the OECD was dealing with to begin with, which is part of the challenge where there’s a catch all term and it’s taken to mean any number of different things. So can you tell us a bit about what are the parties have had to say generally about either a Netflix tax or perhaps even more broadly? We can unpack it that way. Taxation, digital services and I guess Canadian content gets thrown in there as well.

Laura Tribe: If we could put the definitions of a Netflix tax and Internet tax, sales tax, all of the taxes to rest once and for all, it would be beautiful. But I think the Netflix tax is a catch all phrase that came up in the last election with Stephen Harper, which is fundamentally a tax on over-the-top streaming services like Netflix that would have to pay and to fund Canadian content in the same way that cable providers do. Now, in the last election, it was very clear that was off the table over the entire course of the Liberals last four years. Everything we’ve heard out of Canadian heritage was that everything’s on the table except a Netflix tax that was always the one thing that was off the table. And we’re seeing it start to creep up again in this election. But over the past four years, taxing things like Netflix to make sure that they’re paying into Canadian content has always been off the table. Other things that we have seen coming up since that all get looped into that Netflix tax bucket are things like an Internet tax or an ISP levy that would require all Internet service providers to pay into Canadian content the same way that cable providers do with the idea that people are cutting the cord and using the Internet. So therefore they must be using the internet to stream content and we must make them pay into Canadian content. That’s something that fundamentally OpenMedia does not support. We already pay some of the highest prices in the world for Internet, which is why we’re talking about cell phone prices, why we talk of Internet prices. And there is no question those fees would be passed on to customers.

Laura Tribe: It also implies that the Internet only has one purpose, which is for streaming Netflix, which is not the case. It would require businesses who have servers to be paying into Canadian content by virtue of trying to host data for their own companies. There’s a ton of examples as to why it doesn’t work. We also have sales tax, which somehow never gets put into the conversation, even though it’s the most obvious solution for a lot of these. And that’s really around companies like Netflix, Amazon, International companies that operate in Canada with services that are not charging their customers GST or HST and therefore not remitting it to the government. That one is mostly not the case because it’s just been hard for governments to figure out how to enforce it, but there’s nothing fundamentally stopping them from doing it. And it does look like in this election the Liberals have put that back on the table. So it does look like sales tax will be in consideration.

Laura Tribe: And then we also have the new tax that the Liberals declared around online advertising, which is a 3 percent tax on all of the major online advertisers. I don’t remember what the billions of dollars they have to make ad revenues to qualify for, but that would be an additional 3 percent tax. And depending on how you read the comments from the Liberals and the NDP and the Green Party, there’s a really good Q&A with them on big tech in the Toronto Star. Reading through their own platforms, they are all consistently vague and ambiguous on them, but it looks like the Netflix tax is very much back on the table to require everyone to pay into the Canadian content system, as well as requiring companies like Netflix, like YouTube in some cases, depending on how you read it, to actually produce the same amount of Canadian content that cable providers are as well. And so, you know, there’s we can get into as deep as you want any one of them. But fundamentally, the policies that seem to be on the table right now have taken us back to an era before the 2015 election and actually seem to be taking us back into an era of cable TV where instead of being able to look at what the Internet looks like now and how we want the world to look, instead of having these sort of forward looking, innovative policies, we’re just stuck and going back to how do we make it look more like the thing that we’re used to on TV because we don’t know what to do with us. So it’s pretty discouraging.

Michael Geist: Fair enough. So just to make sure because, you know. Outlining the various tax proposals that are out there, but I take it on the sales tax issue. So applying it to foreign services that don’t have a presence here, of course, if when we’re talking about sales taxes are not paying sales tax themselves or merely collecting or collecting and remitting on behalf of their customers. That sounds like that’s on the table really for all the parties that have a platform at this point in time, they’re all willing to say we need a level playing field with respect to sales tax. Yeah. Okay. So we’ve got that on the.

Laura Tribe: Haven’t heard anything from the Conservatives or. I haven’t heard anything from the Conservatives. I know definitely from the Liberals and it’s been implied from the other party.

Michael Geist: Fair enough. I think actually Scheer may have, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer may have provided some indication that they’re willing to look at this as well. But you’re right, as we record this, we still don’t have a platform, so we don’t know what if that’s the case or what it looks like. And in a sense, it’s a good illustration of why it becomes a problem, because these issues become take on different mean different things to different people. It’s really helpful to get a clearer articulation to extend to which we get a clearer articulation of where things stand. So say it sounds like digital sales taxes are on the way pretty much regardless least of the parties that have put that forward. Yeah, the corporate tax, it sounds like the various parties are also at least entertain the possibility of saying we want to find ways to ensure that large international technology companies who have the ability to move dollars around more easily perhaps than others, that they pay some amount of essentially corporate income tax in Canada. By way of some sort of levy or something like that, although back I guess could be worked on internationally first. Or maybe Canada just jumps in and says, this is what we want until there’s an international solution.

Laura Tribe: It sounds like all of the parties are on board for following the international solution and trying to figure out how to go further. But that’s about the level of detail you’ve been given. And getting into more specifics, I’d be trying to guess.

Michael Geist: Yeah, no, that’s and then that’s fair in this part of the problem. Is it. Yeah. You know, there’s there’s there’s votes to be had at least the parties seem to think there is by saying that you’re going to prepared to take on Big Tech so to speak. But the specifics sometimes are missing. It’s that last one that becomes I think really relevant, this issue of whether or not there are mandated contributions, which was, I think the original thinking behind what a Netflix tax to Stephen Harper did that somewhat cheesy video about no Netflix taxes and how he was a fan of Breaking Bad. So it sounds like the parties have shift in that regard. So, for example, the current government, a Liberal government, Pablo Rodriguez previously and he’s been his predecessor, Melanie Joly seemed to be hedge a little bit when it came to these issues. Take it, Mr. Rodriguez and the party itself have kind of jumped in more aggressively about the prospect of mandated payments.

Laura Tribe: Yeah, it looks like the line of if you’re benefiting, you have to pay, I think which you’ve dealt with previously and talk much about seems to be their underlying principle. And there’s ways to pick that apart for a whole other podcasts. But it looks like there there are multiple layers of how they’re trying to go about it. So they want financial contributions into the Canadian Media Fund to be coming from international over the top providers, which could include not just Netflix, but Amazon Prime, Disney plus if it comes to Canada and as it comes to Canada to paying into the system. But then there’s a second layer, which is also to require them to provide the same amount of Canadian content that TV providers are actually required to have, which I think raises a lot of questions around what would a Disney plus rollout in Canada look like when Disney doesn’t have a very large Cancon catalog? And what does Cancon mean? And I think that’s the piece that has really been missing in the conversation when we’re talking about Canadian content and then looking at something like YouTube, where there is a ton of content that’s on there by people in Canada who are Canadian made in and about Canada. But because they don’t meet sort of the industry’s qualifications of Cancon wouldn’t count. And so I think there’s a lot of questions around not just what does it mean to have them hosted, but if you’re Netflix and all of a sudden, you know, there’s been a lot of criticism about Netflix deal with Melanie Joly and how they said they would invest more in Canada. And it was a four year deal and they’ve already done it in two and they’re proud of how much they’re investing in Canada. But does it count as Canadian content? And if you’re Netflix and let’s say that 10 percent of your catalog is Canadian, but you have to hit 30 percent. Are you gonna go make 20 percent new Canadian content or are you going to drop part of your catalog that’s available to Canada? And so I think there’s a lot of questions around what that actually does to our access to content in Canada by making those contributions and really fundamentally threatens the idea of what it means to have an open Internet. When you’re mandating what people need to be providing and obligations of content being put online.

Michael Geist: Right. So it really does get into that Internet regulation writ large when it’s early if you start getting into what you’re required to do. And I know that there’s been talk certainly of requiring promoting of Canadian content, perhaps having a certain amount of Canadian content as well as, of course, funding that Canadian content. What is all of this say with respect to the government’s broadcast and telecommunications legislative review panel? Because these are the kinds of issues that the government had, depending on your perspective, either punted or at least wanted to ensure got a fulsome review by an expert panel that struck this panel. We’ve now had at least an interim report from the panel. But it sure feels like at least when it comes to liberals and I suppose with all the parties that have at least put forward platforms, that they’re in a sense not even looking to wait to hear what this panel has to say, they’ve already decided what they want to see done.

Laura Tribe: Yeah, it’s really frustrating. Minister Rodriguez comments in June when the butyl our panel put out their interim report was a real shot at the people who participated as an organization that funneled thousands of people’s comments into this and, you know, as an act of good faith took the government at its word to say, we want to let the experts think about it and we want a fulsome review to have halfway through the minister, who is in charge of half of this project say that’s great, we can’t wait to do this thing. We’ve already decided. So looking forward to your final report. It felt like a slap in the face. I think. All of the parties that have comment on this obviously have a position on what they want to see come out of the report. If any changes are made, the ones who actually seem to have the strongest view are the liberals who actually implemented the overhaul and the review itself, which seems the most confusing because they’re the ones who said we want to wait and see. And now they’re the ones who seem to have a vision predetermined. But fundamentally, even when the report is done and it’s due at the end of January, that will take into consideration recommendations for everything that needs be changed on broadcasting and telecommunications. That’s just the start. That’s just really the recommendations. And in the same way you got recommendations from committees back to government, it’s really up to the government of the day to decide what to do with it. And so as frustrating as it is to have political parties trying to predetermine an outcome, it is an election. And it does mean that at least we know who we’re voting on, who’s going to be picking up this ball when when it comes to them. But it looks like regardless of where you stand, people have decided this is something they need to have a really strong position on. And I hope that I really, really hope that the report that comes out from the BTLR panel does take into consideration what they heard. It does take into consideration where we need to go and does not take into consideration the political context, because that’s the second phase of the fight.

Laura Tribe: And right now, this is really looking at a system that is the foundation of all of our communications in Canada. It’s how we talk to each other. It’s how we do business. It’s everything about how we operate now. And it can’t just be a political football that we’re using to toss around. So it’s it’s been really discouraging to see it politicized, but it’s also not that surprising. And hopefully over the course of this election, whoever forms the next government or takes into consideration that, you know, this was something that people went into in good faith.

Michael Geist: Now, that’s really well said. And I suppose we will have to wait a few months to see what the report says, and of course, less than that to see what the government happens to be. But it is, I think, for a lot of people and I participated as well, discouraging to see the the government, at least the government. But it really almost all the parties sort of take a stake on where they want to where they want to see things go in effect without really taking into account this entire process. What do we do four Quick Hits on other on other issues we really unpack. I think these were the really the two biggest that have captured attention, the next four less so. But let’s just make sure we cover all of our bases. Privacy is an issue that people talk a lot about. Has there been much from any of the parties with respect to what they may do on privacy?

Laura Tribe: Privacy is the one they’ve been the most quiet on. I would say when it comes to Internet issues, the Green Party has actually issued the most fulsome plans on privacy of any of the parties to date with a lot of ideas around strengthening the privacy commissioner and their powers, a lot of pieces around making sure that there are data protections in place. I think the one thing that is of concern in the Green Party platform is removing anonymity online for social media platforms. I think it’s well intended to try and curb bullying and a lot of harassment online. But fundamentally, anonymity is something that is critical for people who who are the most marginalized in a lot of cases. And so I think that’s something that, while well-intended, might not have come across correctly in the people they were trying to help. The conservatives have said that they will launch a new parliamentary committee around cybersecurity and data privacy with no details on what that looks like. The Liberals have talked a lot about privacy around innovation and data and what that looks like in it’s part of their new digital charter. But it’s really vague on what that actually means for me is as an individual and as a user, there’s not a lot of clarity around how we can minimize the amount of data being collected. And fundamentally, the biggest criticism I have of all of the parties on privacy is that not a single one of them, with the exception of the Green Party, thinks that they should be held subject to any privacy laws. And in an election when they are collecting data on us, when they are, you know, using it to try and target us and manipulate us to get our votes. The fact that they’re holding themselves to a lower standard than they hold anyone else is appalling. And someone who’s trying to uphold democracy. So I think that’s my biggest criticism across the board, with the exception that the Greens have said they would bring that. It wasn’t that fast for your rapid fire.

Michael Geist: No, that was great. And no, and I and I certainly agree with you, have been a recipient of clearly targeted stuff, which raises some questions, too. And I think a lot of Canadians have. There is a long history of political parties of all stripes being willing to impose certain obligations on the private sector, but unwilling to take them on themselves. I mean, that’s that’s been the case for years. When it comes to political parties closely related to this is that question of platform liability. You touched on it a little bit with respect to the Greens, anything else in terms of hate speech or other sorts of rules when it comes to what.

Laura Tribe: We have seen, the liberals say that they will require platforms to take problematic content down within 24 hours and they give a specific definition of what that problematic content would be. It includes hateful content, terrorism content, terrorism related content, incitement to violence. A few others that I can’t recall at the moment. But, you know, fundamentally trying to follow in the steps of some European models and following the German model of a 24 hour takedown notice. I think the questions that come up and it’s actually a little surprising that content, moderation and some of these issues haven’t been more central in the election. But I think the biggest question around that is whose job is it? Is it the governments or is it the companies? And I think that the government don’t want it to be theirs. They’re trying to incentivize the companies to do it, and the companies don’t want it to be theirs. They’re really trying to wait until the government makes them do it. And I think that’s where we’ve gotten into a lot of the mess that we’re in now.

Michael Geist: That’s that’s perfect. That that fits well with the Quick Hits. Digital trade, digital trade policy, the USMCA. Obviously, there was a fair amount in that trade agreement we’ve had in some of the other trade agreements, a CPA TPP in the European deal as well. Are any of those digital provisions at risk, including copyright here? Of course, with copyright term extension. The party said much about what they would do with these trade deals.

Laura Tribe: You’d probably know the answer to this better than I will. But fundamentally, what we’ve heard on the trade deals is if you’re the liberals, you think it’s a good deal. And if you’re not the liberals, you think it’s a bad deal. Not a lot of talk around the digital issues themselves. Not a lot of talk around the IP provisions. Most of it seems to focus on dairy and a lot of those issues, even though there’s a lot more free trade agreement than just dairy. But it hasn’t really come up in terms of what’s wrong with the deal. We’ve seen the parties really stick to their talking points around good and bad and haven’t seen a lot of detail on that.

Michael Geist: No, I think that’s why I haven’t seen really anything either. It is rather remarkable for people who’ve been following Canadian politics for some years. I mean, we literally had full elections that were primarily about trade agreements. And here in those last mandate, we’ve had three trade agreements either closed or negotiated, which fundamentally transform our trading relationship pretty much with the entire world. And yet, as you suggest, there’s been practically no talk about it other than it’s good or bad without getting into any any level of detail. The one other issue that also is attracted at least some amount of attention over the course of the mandate, most recently with a year long review, was copyright law. The reviews themselves, the review itself coming from the industry committee and there was a supporting document that came from the Heritage Committee, came too late for the government to respond, or at least by the time it was released, the government wasn’t required to respond. And so it won’t. Has copyright come up at all?

Laura Tribe: I haven’t seen much talk about copyright, and for something that took well over a year to study that had, you know, cross party examination. It hasn’t had much discussion this election. But I also think it was so thoroughly studied by the industry committee. That is a cross-party committee that actually put a report forward that had multiple parties saying we think this is a good plan, that it’s not an area of division. In the same way that I think a lot of the other issues that are coming up in this election are. And so without a really clear way to try and distinguish yourself in the other parties, it makes it really hard for it to be an election issue. So we’ll see what the next government does with the recommendations that came from the committee. But it it hasn’t been as divisive as an issue as it has been in the past.

Michael Geist: I think that’s a great point, because you had that really extensive study. The committee representing all parties in the parties all came on board with those issues. And so perhaps that’s. Why it’s not. There’s not enough of a wedge there to make much of a difference. Laura, thanks so much for joining me on the podcast.

Laura Tribe: Thanks for having me.

Michael Geist: The Conservative Party released its election platform on October 11th, one day after this podcast was recorded. The platform does not discuss wireless or Internet affordability, limiting its communications policy to rural broadband issues. The platform also doesn’t discuss a digital sales tax or mandated Cancon contribution, often referred to as a Netflix tax. It does, however, envision a 3 percent tax on global technology companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. The conservative platform includes several new policy proposals, including rules that would hold parents liable for cyber bullying by their children and requirements for plain language privacy policies. There is no discussion on further Internet platform liability or copyright reform.

Michael Geist: That’s the Law Bytes podcast for this week. If you have comments suggestions or other feedback, write to lawbytes.com. That’s lawbytes at pobox.com. Follow the podcast on Twitter at @lawbytespod or Michael Geist at @mgeist. You can download the latest episodes from my Web site at Michaelgeist.ca or subscribe via RSS, at Apple podcast, Google, or Spotify. The LawBytes Podcast is produced by Gerardo LeBron Laboy. Music by the Laboy brothers: Gerardo and Jose LeBron Laboy. Credit information for the clips featured in this podcast can be found in the show notes for this episode at Michaelgeist.ca. I’m Michael Geist. Thanks for listening and see you next time.

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