Internet and Social Media

The Centre for Free Expression has joined 40 other organizations and more than 120 individual experts, human rights advocates, and community representatives across Canada in an Open Letter expressing our opposition to the federal government’s deeply misguided thirty-day “national sprint” public consultation on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy.

Only a few months removed from last fall’s mass cancellation of X accounts following the US election results (see James Turk’s piece on that here), it looks like we may be in for a similar exodus from META’s Facebook, Threads, and Instagram.

The Guardian’s decision earlier this week to stop posting on X finally prompted me to take the same step, one I have been contemplating for some time. Whereas the decision of the Guardian, which has 27-million followers, is consequential, my decision (with my 1,018 followers) is not. Still, for me, it is important to dissociate myself from what Musk has made of X.

Separating controversial human rights impacting provisions is critical