Commentary
If Elon Musk is looking for a scrap over free speech, Canada could very well provide him with his first brawl.
Although his comments following his purchase this week of Twitter for US$44 billion indicated content moderation would still be a feature of the notoriously rambunctious platform, Musk is known as a free speech absolutist. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is definitely not one of those. His first run at a so-called Online Harms Act—one part of a multi-pronged approach to internet regulation legislation—was so extreme it was denounced by even pre-Musk Twitter as “drastic” and reminiscent of censorship practices employed in totalitarian states.
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