Commentary
The standoff between the Trudeau government and large social media platforms over the Online News Act (Bill C-18) is heating up.
Meta and Google are both musing about cutting off links to Canadian news sites in response to the proposed shakedown, and it is making news providers dependent upon internet traffic nervous. In today’s media world, to lose the traffic provided by the major social media platforms is to vanish from the public eye.
At a recent news conference, Prime Minister Trudeau spilled the beans on what C-18 is really all about. It isn’t about providing equitable access to information or standing up for Canadian citizens. It is nothing more than a cash grab being foisted upon social media platforms, and Trudeau is using the politics of envy to try and justify it….