Trudeau demands Tech giants delete news stories.

[rookiepilot]

It begins.

https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/ ... DYJOS1E2f1

Paul Knox, a professor emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University's school of journalism, said governments don't have any business telling anybody what can be published where.

The government was "totally out of their lane on this one" and needs to apologize, he said.

"You can't only have freedom of the press for people you approve of and people you consider to be right," said Knox, who also sits on the Canadian issues committee for the Canadian Journalists For Free Expression, an organization that defends the rights of journalists.

He said that while publications can be held accountable for being wrong, it doesn't entitle people to demand that something be removed from a platform.

"And the last people on Earth that would be justified in doing that would be entities of a government," he said.

The Opposition Conservatives said Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government "cannot be trusted" to protect Canadians' right to free expression.

"No government should be able to demand that news be erased from history simply because they do not like the facts," Conservative MP Rachael Thomas said in a statement. "It is extremely concerning that the Trudeau government has sought to censor the free press through secret requests to big tech companies."

Documents tabled in Parliament detail 214 examples of Ottawa asking for social-media content to be removed between January 2020 and February 2023.

[CpnCrunch]

It's very funny that the tories are saying the government can't be trusted with free speech, when Harper was a hell of a lot worse in this regard. Yes, government can't be trusted.

And what's this got to do with covid again?

[rookiepilot]

It's very funny that the tories are saying the government can't be trusted with free speech, when Harper was a hell of a lot worse in this regard. Yes, government can't be trusted.

And what's this got to do with covid again?

So its a fake story?

Thats why the journalist community is commenting on it?

Just waiting for someone to comment on the source, its not trustworthy not being the CBC.

[North Shore]

Neither aviation, nor Covid.