I had a conversation recently where we were talking about Canadians having their ability to communicate online limited, where many people said that’s not true, and even @johncleese chimed in. This is what I was talking about. bbc.com/news/world-us-canada… The Canadian Online News Act prevents people from sharing news links on Facebook and Instagram. The stated purpose is to force tech companies to pay news outlets for their work, but to me that doesn’t even make sense. Posting links on social media drives traffic. The more people post links, the more traffic your news site gets. What stopping people from posting links absolutely does, is limit the ability of people to spread information. Then there’s the “Online Harms Act” Which even The Atlantic described as “Canada’s Extremist Attack On Free Speech” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv… In the article they state: “A bill making its way through the Canadian Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop crimes they haven’t yet committed.” These are the things I was talking about. It’s a slippery slope, and it’s moving in the wrong direction for the people of Canada.