Tue Sep 13, 2022 – 5:14 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Big tech giants YouTube and Apple urged Canada’s senate to stall the passing of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Bill C-11, which critics have warned will stifle free speech online.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, executives from YouTube and Apple wrote in a letter to Canada’s transport and communications committee that they “urge this committee to pause” passage of Bill C-11.
Executives from the Digital Media Association who represent YouTube, Amazon, Spotify, and other large tech companies wrote in the letter that Trudeau’s bill, if passed, would have a “significant impact on music streaming services.”
“Together these services connect millions of fans across Canada and around the world with tens of millions of songs and podcasts providing unique listening experiences,” it concluded.
According to executives in their letter, having a government regulator oversee interest streaming services is “antiquated.”
“Bill C-11 attempts to impose a system of regulation that is designed for traditional broadcasters onto streaming services,” the letter noted.
“Imposing this antiquated system onto innovative streaming services in an era of consumer choice, where there are no gatekeepers to content as there are in the broadcasting context, is
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors