Loading ...Elon Musk says Trudeau’s internet censorship bill may be attempt to ‘muzzle the voice’ of Canadians
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 the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the ability to regulate what it says is “commercial” video content on sites such as YouTube or Netflix. However, because the bill does not define what “commercial” means, critics have long warned it carries the potential to severely stifle free speech online, and could likely also impact individual users.
While Bill C-11 has been at the forefront of the free speech battle in Canada, Lawton’s tweet seems to also be a reference to the now-lapsed but potentially returning Bill C-36.
Introduced by the Trudeau government in 2021, critics of Bill C-36 warned at the time that the broadly-scoped act would have led to the censorship of bloggers and individual social media users, and could have even opened the door to giving police the power to “do something” about online “hate.”