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Josh Dehaas: Carney's plot to censor the entire internet

The Liberals are using the excuse of protecting children to usher in an expansive censorship regime

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The Carney government signalled for months that it would pass a law to protect kids from online harms, including by banning access to social media for those under age 16. What we got instead may be the biggest threat to free expression in decades: mandatory censorship of social media and AI.

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The Safe Social Media Act, Bill C-34, aims to keep kids from signing up for TikTok and Instagram, which is bad enough since it means teenagers will be censored. While many parents don’t want their teens on TikTok, others believe their 15-year-olds are mature enough.

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Still, the much bigger concern is that the act would create a new Digital Safety Commission with the power to force social media companies and artificial intelligence to censor the speech of adult Canadians.

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