Ex-chief justice says Canada needs social media regulator with take-down power
Canada, she said, needs an independent social media regulator operating at arm's length from government, and that watchdog should have the authority to order hate speech, disinformation and other harmful communication to be removed from social media sites. “We need to have a takedown mechanism,” McLachlin said. The former chief justice was a member of the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, established last year by the Public Policy Forum. That commission recommended in January that the government should pass legislation requiring social media platforms to “act responsibl...