Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law – at least in a small country like Canada.
“But we are too small for you. You are too big, you are too important and we are just not important enough for Google for you to take us seriously.”He and Kee maintained the decision was strictly a technical one: Google engineers could not, in the short time frame required by the government, come up with a system that would reliably detect partisan and issue-oriented ads during the campaign and ensure they were all archived along with information identifying the source of the ads.
It adopted unanimous motions to summon Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to appear at the second meeting of the international grand committee on big data, privacy and democracy, which the Commons committee is hosting in Ottawa on May 28. The grand committee involves parliamentarians from Canada, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Ireland, Latvia and Singapore.
More recently, he said the giants have professed to be in favour of stronger, government-imposed rules on privacy and the spread of hate and misinformation. And Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of democratic institutions, has been signalling that regulations are coming because she’s been disappointed by social media platforms’ efforts to self-regulate.
why should they? we are a joke to the rest of the world.
Canada is the money laundering capital of the world. Canada is a joke. cdnpoli
No one takes our government seriously. It’s a shitshow.
The far bigger problem is we don’t take political promised seriously. Politicians are a far bigger source of fake stories and promises.
Only one way to Fix this...
I’m stunned!!! 🤣
So do Canadian grocers, oil companies, Bell, Rogers, Revenue Canada, Banks....should we continue.
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