“Social media companies need to do more,” said Joly, as part of her answer. “They need to make sure they recognize states have jurisdiction over them and that they’re not technology platforms but they’re content producers. It is our way collectively to make sure that we can really be able to have strong democracies in the future because this war is being fought with 21st century tools including social media.”
See what they’re doing here? They argue, correctly, that Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is pushing false narratives but then in the next breath make the massive leap that the solution is to bring in permanent changes to Canadian legislation that will impact things that have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
Joly reportedly plans to announce more formal measures soon and you can bet their comms plan is to denounce anyone who has a problem with censoring the Internet in Canada as a pro-Putin stooge. The shamelessness is so transparent. But there will no doubt be a phalanx of Liberal supporters ready to run with this line of attack.
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