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Tech giant Meta is prepared to block news on Facebook and Instagram if the Trudeau government passes  Bill C-18.

Brett Caraway, an associate professor of information and technology, told True North it's senseless to ask tech giants like Facebook to pay when users hyperlink to Canadian journalism.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than 200,000 businesses, wrote a protest letter to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. The letter said an upcoming motion – seeking to compel Meta and Google to release private communications with Canadians – is undemocratic.

A key critic of Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act, said that Google’s decision to test blocking news links to a segment of the Canadian population was “unsurprising” given the federal government’s conduct in the affair. 

As the Trudeau government’s Online News Act, Bill C-18, inches closer to becoming law, Google is blocking some users from viewing news content in what the tech giant says is a test run of a potential response to the act.

Alberta’s new parliamentary secretary for civil liberties has been tasked with fighting the federal government’s proposed Bill C-18, legislation that has been dubbed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “online censorship” bill.

The bill completed its first reading on Wednesday in the House of Commons after the Liberals struck down debate on the bill’s second reading, promptly sending it to the Senate. 

The United States government has waded into the fight against two digital regulation laws being considered by the federal Liberal government.

The Liberals are flip-flopping on their advertising ban on Meta, not on behalf of news organizations like True North, but for themselves.

Facebook and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has signalled an end to censorious policies and a move toward pushing for free speech abroad.