Carney government needs to reign in tech to protect democracy

Aggressive Silicon Valley lobbying should not be allowed to dictate Canada's digital policy agenda.

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk at Trump inauguration.

In a rare Star Editorial Board piece Saturday with the understated headline “Donald Trump’s erratic, kleptocratic authoritarianism is a threat to our very existence. This is what Canada must do to survive”, the Star states that:

The last year has revealed that the tech lords r…