The Canadian Press: University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist has dubbed the commission a “digital super-regulator.”
“A single commission of five Governor in Council appointees will now be responsible both for regulating online speech and content moderation across the country’s largest platforms (including standard setting, guidelines, audits, formal, law-enforcement-style investigations, hearings, and adjudicative powers) and for overseeing how every organization in Canada collects, uses, and discloses personal information,” he wrote in a blog post shortly after the legislation was introduced…