Justin Trudeau is trying to break the internet – and not in the viral sense
, has garnered the most scrutiny to date. The bill, which passed Parliament last week and has become law, allows the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to require platforms like Spotify and YouTube to produce and promote Canadian content, as it does for radio and television stations.
“We can’t turn back the clock on the Internet,” OpenMedia argued. “Few people want the old centralized information system back, and trying to force advertising revenue back into a version of the old model is doomed to fail and will produce many new problems.”In 2021, the Trudeau government announced it would launch a crackdown of the four horsemen of “online harms” – child sexual exploitation, hate speech, terrorist propaganda, and disinformation – all in one go.
The bill is expected before the end of the year, and will reportedly include measures to keep anyone under 18 from seeing nudity on the internet by. This plan is even more absurd than a 2013 effort by notoriously prudish Conservative MP Joy Smith to install smut filters on the home networks of every Canadian. “Free porn is the equivalent of me standing outside a school and giving out cigarettes and alcohol,” anti-porn activist Gail Dines said at the time.
Worse yet, regulating these companies will only entrench their oligopolistic position. Stamping these platforms as “safe” just because they aren’t an Islamic State hangout is an endorsement they do not deserve. We do not need state-sanctioned social media: We need the creative destruction that will spur competition.
Pre-Elon Musk Twitter, for instance, banned scores of accounts involved in election denial conspiracy theories and the Jan. 6 insurrection. This so-called “great deplatforming” sent tens of thousands of users fleeing to the far-right microblogging platform Gab. You would think that a mass exodus of far-right accounts would leave Twitter better off, but not so, according to a study published in theon Twitter. Worse, the discourse on Gab intensified from merely hateful to downright extreme.
If police need new powers, we can have that debate. But law enforcement has long tried to use legitimate fears around online terrorism and child sexual exploitation to advocate for gettingPlatforms should not get a pass for hosting revenge porn and child pornography: They should face civil liability for failing to take offline this illegal content.
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