Confessions of a former digital utopian

In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, digital platforms present an enormous policy challenge as huge, virtually unaccountable quasi-monopolies beyond the reach of any individual country.

The House Ethics Committee, chaired by Conservative MP Bob Zimmer, has been waiting for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to explain himself following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The group recently voted to subpoena Mr. Zuckerberg to testify before it. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NDP MP CHARLIE ANGUS

May 15, 2019

Consider this a confession of a former digital utopian. When I was first elected as an MP, I believed that Parliamentarians needed to protect the “open” internet and embrace what we thought of as the digital commons. I swallowed the Silicon Valley line that government regulation would impede inn...

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