Fri Mar 24, 2023 – 5:32 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– A technology professor has blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s internet censorship Bill C-18 as a “terrifying” way to try and prop up Canadian legacy journalism.
Trudeau’s Bill C-18, called the “Online News Act,” would force social media companies to pay Canadian legacy media for news content shared on their platforms.
However, as noted by Brett Caraway, who works as an associate professor of information and technology at the University of Toronto, Bill C-18 is a pointless endeavor in trying to get social media giants like Facebook and Google to pay for hyperlinks.
Said Caraway, as noted by True North, Bill C-18 is “terrifying to me.”
“That’s not how you fix this problem,’ he noted.
Caraway said that he is so frustrated by C-18, that he would like to go in front of “Parliament and ask, ‘Do you guys even know how the internet works?’”
Bill C-18 is now in its second reading in the Senate. Late last year, the Trudeau government decided to fast-track Bill C-18, rushing it through the House of Commons.
Critics have warned that Bill C-18 is an attack on independent media, with some cautioning it
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