One year ago there was a lot of noise about the federal Liberal government looking for ways to regulate Internet content and effectively give themselves the…
What was then known as Bill C-10 was seen as a backdoor way to bring in creeping censorship by giving the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission the powers to regular what they termed user-generated content posted online, in the same way the regulatory body currently has domain over the radio and TV realm.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has made multiple statements to this effect the past couple weeks.tap here to see other videos from our team“Social media companies need to do more to prevent propaganda, and to counter any form of disinformation,” Jolyat an event at the University of Toronto’s Munk School two weeks ago. The problem is “not only happening in Russia, it’s happening on new virtual battlegrounds, which are our social media companies,” she added.
See what they’re doing here? They argue, correctly, that Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is pushing false narratives but then in the next breath make the massive leap that the solution is to bring in permanent changes to Canadian legislation that will impact things that have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.Article content
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