@justinling you can debate the precise details but I support more regulation of the internet. I am tired of the mass disinformation causing a decay of society. Covid-19 misinformation, Trump, right-wing controlled mass media, Putin and the Chinese Communist party attempts at disinformation and political meddling in Canadian society needs some sort of control.
@ottawa_smor That's a perfectly valid position, but we can't just look at the optimistic upsides of a set of policies. There's good reason to think that these policies could make things worse, and foist a whole new suite of problems on us.
@human3500@ottawa_smor Exactly that. My argument is that if you really care about our radicalization problem, you should resist government-imposed moderation. Reasonable people can disagree, of course.
@justinling@human3500@ottawa_smor I would prefer more of a focus on education. IMHO the erosion of education has lead to people being more susceptible to false information. Working with school aged children for 25 years I saw this shift first hand. We need to teach our youth to better navigate social media and give them the critical thinking skills to deal with disinformation.
We've had Canadian content regulations for decades and we are still being steamrolled by non-Canadian "culture".
Censorship would remove non-Canadian content. Here we are giving a boost to Canadian content among the world content, so it doesn't get drowned out by big money interests.
It is the big money that is algorithmically censoring.
@bjb Yes but these bills turn those big money U.S. corporations into agents of the state. I don't want Facebook to be regulated: I want it to die and be replaced with something that lets me build my own online universe.
The government can and should give a boost to Canadian culture. This isn't the way to do it.
@bjb and, fwiw, my concerns around censorship flow from the upcoming online harms bill, not C-11. (Although I think mandating cancon will lead to platforms recommending cancon they think the government of the day will like. Which concerns me!)
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