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Canada’s fight over digital sovereignty is just getting started (www.policyalternatives.ca)

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One recent article referred to President Trump as “Big Tech’s Personal Lobbyist,” for his efforts to undermine U.S. state and international efforts to regulate or tax the enormous wealth of digital economy giants.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

hold them accountable – thus helping ensure a higher standard of online discourse. The U.K.’s Online Safety Act protects minors from mature content, and

A strange thing to use as a positive example

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah this entire article is peppered with this sort of thing. The author of this article is advocating for the end of a free and open internet. In order to silence bigots and assholes like Trump and Bolsonaro they want to remove any and all protections that prevented your ISP from nanny monitoring your online activity.

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

A strange thing to use as a positive example

Yeah that's a red flag for this person doesn't know what they're talking about and/or doesn't have popular interests at heart to some degree. Good catch!