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‘Who would ever have imagined that in Canada the federal government would pass laws banning people from effectively seeing the news? Who would have thought that we’d have a government that would pass a law to manipulate the algorithms of the internet so that Canadians only see what the prime minister wants them to see?’
(LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s Conservative Party leader told reporters this week that Meta’s act of hiding news from citizens in cooperation with the nation’s internet censorship bill is a reality comparable to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
During an August 1 CPAC press conference on the topics of affordable housing and immigration, Pierre Poilievre was asked his thoughts on Meta’s recent decision to censor news articles from Canadian Facebook and Instagram accounts. The platform made the change in adherence to Bill C-18, which became law at the end of June.
“I think it’s like ‘1984,’” he told reporters at the end of the conference. “You have a prime minister passing a law to make news articles disappear from the internet.”
“Who would ever have imagined that in Canada the federal government would pass laws banning people from effectively seeing the news? Who would have thought that we’d have a government that would pass a law to manipulate the algorithms of the internet so that Canadians only see what the prime minister wants them to see?”