Canada’s got the world’s worst internet ideas

The Canada Variant is the most virulent “online harms” rule yet.

Cory Doctorow

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The Canadian flag; in the centre of the maple leaf is the glowing red eye of HAL9000; the white field has been replaced by a Matrix ‘code waterfall’ effect.

Canada’s government is poised to pass a “harmful content” regulation. It’s a worst-in-class mutation of a dangerous idea that’s swept the globe, in which governments demand that hamfisted tech giants remove broad categories of speech — too swiftly for meaningful analysis.

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