Bill C–18, After Facebook and Google ⇥ ricochet.media

Andrea Houston, Ricochet:

Then there’s the question of what would happen down the road if Google and Facebook were no longer profitable? [Senator Paula] Simons told Ricochet that when she raised that question with staff in the Heritage ministry, she was told they “would turn to TikTok.”

“I said, ‘Wait a minute! TikTok doesn’t share news links,’” Simons recalled. “And staff said, ‘TikTok shares news stories in other ways. It talks about the news.’ I said, ‘Woah, wait a minute! That’s a fair-use argument.’…Then the official said to me, ‘Lots of Canadians get their news from TikTok.’”

Ominous.