Thu Dec 15, 2022 – 4:09 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Twitter owner Elon Musk took a direct shot at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s looming internet censorship legislation Wednesday, suggesting the bill is an attempt to “muzzle” the voice of Canadians.
On Tuesday, True North’s senior journalist Andrew Lawton wrote a tweet asking Musk – the billionaire tech mogul behind Space X and Tesla and now the owner of Twitter – to take a “stand” against Trudeau’s online censorship legislation.
Canada’s Liberal government wants to regulate internet content and deputize social media companies to enforce “hate speech” bans (with a low and murky threshold for what “hate speech” is). I hope @elonmusk takes a stand against this.
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) December 13, 2022
Musk responded to Lawton’s tweet directly on Wednesday, writing:
Sounds like an attempt to muzzle the voice of the people of Canada
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022
One of the main pieces of internet censorship legislation in question, Bill C-11, is currently in its third and final reading in the Canadian Senate, and is expected to pass shortly.
As the bill stands, once law it would give
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