Peter Menzies: New Online Harms Act Gives Appointed Commissioners Too Much Power

Published on February 27, 2024

Commentary Canada has launched  legislation reining in social media and reducing its citizens’ freedom to express themselves online. And while supporters of the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) believe tighter control of speech and images by government is necessary to make platforms such as X and Facebook “safer,” it’s unclear if that will be the case. The new bill follows passage last year of the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) that put the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in charge of all online audio and video content (rules still to come) and of the Online News Act that attempted to force Meta and Google to subsidize news organizations but backfired....

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