Buried in the joint Canada-EU statement was a commitment to “align our frameworks and standards in the regulatory field” and “make online platforms safer and more inclusive.”
The Free Press’ Rupa Subramanya asked Paul Coleman, executive director of the Austria-based Alliance Defending Freedom International, about what this means.
Coleman warned that Canada, by informally or formally adopting such frameworks, risks importing censorship by proxy: “The more Canada folds itself into this regime, the more likely it is that speech in Canada will be limited—not by elected officials in Ottawa, but by unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels.”