According to the report, even those who voiced concern over potentially 'harmful' content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat held that it 'was the responsibility of individuals' and not government to determine what Canadians can and cannot view.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission may look at regulations that include 'a complaint process pertaining to how groups of eligible news businesses are to be structured and their conduct.'
The Alberta government is working with SpaceX’s Starlink to avoid 'federal government delays launching projects and allocating funding' for internet access.
Dr. Michael Geist said the Online Streaming Act 'is likely to cover podcasts, adult sites, news sites, and a host of other online video and audio services.'
'Who would ever have imagined that in Canada the federal government would pass laws banning people from effectively seeing the news? Who would have thought that we’d have a government that would pass a law to manipulate the algorithms of the internet so that Canadians only see what the prime minister wants them to see?'
'We cannot continue paying advertising dollars to Meta while they refuse to pay their fair share to Canadian news organizations,' Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said.