Eighty-eight per cent of survey respondents think social media companies should do more to stop or remove messages that propagate hate or racism online.
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Global News sent questions to the office of the Department of Canadian Heritage, asking where the initiative around social media regulations currently stands, but did not hear back by time of publication. “Ultimately Canadians just want social media companies to be taxed much in the same way that every other company operates in Canada is taxed.”What stood out to Simpson was the divergence among age groups when it came to the role of freedom of speech.
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