The Online Public Library Proposal

for democratic media reform

Transitioning to an Online Public Library Service is
• a sensible way for people to access online content and
• a sensible way for paying the firms and workers who produce online content. The Objective of Founding a Canadian National Online Public Library is to bring to Canadians’ online experience, all the same benefits that traditional print media public libraries bring to society.

Please read and sign the Petition for a Canadian National Online Public Library

Click here to read the petition

The Online Public Library Proposal is about creating a new public service for people to access digital information and entertainment.

We live in a moment where this very important service is totally monopolized by a few private enterprises. The Online Public Library Proposal is about replacing them with a public service. It is a system solution to:

severely limit the spread of hate, lies and deception on the internet,
give people access to all existing digital content, and
pay owners for the use of copyrighten content.

Expectations

As a result of passing an Act of Parliament to found The Canadian National Online Public Library, this new online public service is expected to:
— raise the opportunity for all Canadians to access the best online content,
— create good jobs for workers in the news and entertainment production industry,
— lower the opportunity to buy third party advertising,
— raise the opportunity for the free market to work naturally,
— raise the level of education,
— lower the cost of education,
— raise the standard of living,
— lower the cost of living,
— strengthen democracy,
— reverse the expansion of the wealth gap, and
— eliminate copyright piracy online.

If you are interested in working on making a better public communication system and for questions or comments please contact Breezy Brian Gregg
bzgregg@telusplanet.net

We deserve a communication system that is safe and fair.

Bullshitter’s Paradise -
Advertising-funded media is not democratic. Although it is used sometimes for good, on balance it is not. It is a paradise for wealthy people who profit by deceiving others.
It acts as a big megaphone for the rich, enabling and amplifying the relentless elite efforts to control public opinion. A basic principle of democracy is that citizens should have equal access to power. Those who have money can make their voice heard in the commercial mass media simply by buying advertising time or space. That is undemocratic.
— Speak up strategy to bring change —
Starting in our own communities and extending throughout society we need to speak up about the need for a new public communications service. We need to repeal safe harbour laws now protecting private for profit enterprises that provide interactive services through the internet, but retain safe harbour protections for public libraries. In conjunction with this removal of protection for private enterprises, we need to create and publicly fund online public library services.
When people have the opportunity to access all digital content through the window of an Online Public Library it will become the preferred window both for people to access media content and for firms and individuals to profit from use of their work. It will be the preferred and dominant window because it will have no paywall and no advertising. This will severely limit the undemocratic opportunity that now exists to buy a larger and more far reaching voice in the public conversation.

There is no scientific economic study showing that our current systems for funding digital media content production are efficient.

Our wallets are not safe when rich people can interrupt our communications to expose us to their political and commercial pitches. Not only do we use traditional media businesses like newspapers and television networks, we now use businesses that provide communications online. For example, Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Netflix, and many more. They are all, for profit private enterprises. The way commercial communications service businesses inflate our cost of living is this. People using the services are persistently exposed to advertising pitches. This creates artificial demand. That means it makes people want things they would not naturally be wanting without exposure to advertising. The result is that in the market, demand goes up. What else goes up when demand goes up? … Prices … thats right when demand goes up prices go up. Prices become unnaturally inflated and we pay far more for everything we purchase and we purchase more than we normally would. This is nice for the firms that advertise because they get to make extra profits at consumers expense without really providing anything extra. Providing access to digital content is something that could be mostly automated. Funding communications services with income taxes or general sales taxes is more efficient than extracting funds from consumers by exposing them to advertising. Advertising results in consumers paying what amounts to a hidden tax that goes to pay huge profits to businesses that provide access to other’s content. An Online Public Library would save patrons from having to pay for those huge profits.

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