Analysis · Debate reply · beta

Kelly DeRidder

148 words · 5 sentences · 13 clauses

Replying to Mario Simard (Bloc Québécois)
“Mr. Speaker, I am wondering whether my colleague shares my concern. As we have seen, the government has occasionally had a regrettable tendency to let the tech giants off easy. We need only think of the digital services tax or the levies, two areas where the government has backed down. We know that legislation like this is likely to displease platforms like Facebook. We also know how much influence these people can have on the U.S. President. Does my colleague fear, as I do, that the government might end up backing down if the Americans were to exert economic pressure to persuade us not to go down this route?”
Statement grade
B–
74 / 100, held down by Relevance
A score under 50 is red. Choose a measurement to see where it lost points and why; choose it again to clear.
Claims 66%Promise 34%

This view breaks the statement into its steps and names what each one does.

Mr. Speaker, Claims · 97 wordsthere is a piece in the legislation on the duties of operators, 1which would hold big tech accountable, 2and in there is the duty to act responsibly. It would require social media and these platforms and services like chatbots to assess and mitigate risks associated with seven categories of harmful content.3 Those categories are intimate content communicated without consent; 4content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor; 5content that induces a child to harm themselves; 6content used to bully a child; 7content that foments hatred; 8content that incites violence; 9and terrorism or violent extremism content.10 Promise · 51 wordsA piece of this that we will have to look at when this moves to committee is ensuring that there would be true accountability by these content providers and that it is not just an illusion.Vague promise As such, this is something that we will be talking about as this moves forward.Partly on point

Analysed on