The Online News Act will make the internet less open and secure for all Canadians

The internet relies on a decentralized structure to allow access for all. The unprecedented top-down control reflected in the Online News Act will deprive Canadians of an open, global internet.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is the sponsor of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which fails to consider how the internet works, and will lead Canada to a 'splinternet' of isolated networks controlled by governments or corporations, writes Natalie Campbell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NATALIE CAMPBELL

May 8, 2023

In February, thousands of Canadians opened their browsers and picked up their phones to find many sources of news had disappeared from Google’s search engine. Links to news articles were removed, and some outlets had vanished. The open, uninterrupted internet we had come t...

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