Child safety or speech control? Critics sound alarm about Bill C-34
The Liberal government has introduced Bill C-34, its third attempt in five years to regulate legal internet content and its second framed as child safety.
Ottawa is back with another attempt to police the internet and critics are saying that the Safe Social Media Act mirrors the Liberals’ previously abandoned online harms bills, using child protection as political cover for sweeping new powers over what Canadians can say online.
Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, proposes a permanent framework that shifts decisions about acceptable public discourse from citizens to regulators, bureaucrats, and major tech companies.
