Wed Apr 27, 2022 – 8:54 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Even Big Tech platforms such as Twitter and Microsoft have voiced their opposition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s internet regulation bill C-11, warning it will curb freedom of expression.
Through Access to Information Act requests, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist obtained and published correspondence between Big Tech companies and Canada’s Department of Heritage outlining the tech giants’ concerns that Bill C-11 proposed by the Trudeau government will infringe on the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
Social media giant Twitter, which itself already has a reputation for politically biased censorship, told the Trudeau government that Bill C-11 “sacrifices freedom of expression to the creation of a government run system of surveillance of anyone who uses Twitter.”
“The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the Digital Safety Commissioner to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments (China, North Korea, and Iran, for example) under the false guise of ‘online safety,’ impeding peoples’ rights to access information online,” the company
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