Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he won’t be pushed around by Google and Facebook in the ongoing fight over C-18, the Online News Act.
“They’re superpowers. They’re huge. They’re rich, powerful. Lots of big lawyers. They can be intimidating,” Rodriguez told reporters this week at a news conference convened to announce that the federal government would be suspending its advertising on Facebook and Instagram.
“But are we going to let ourselves be intimidated? We can’t.”
In fact, Rodriguez has framed this refusal to be intimidated in rather existential terms.
“We cannot have tech giants as powerful as they are, with big lawyers and everything,
