Money for nothing | Bruce McDougall - Law360 Canada
What has come over us in Canada? How have we convinced ourselves that technology companies like Google and Meta pose such a threat to humanity that we have to put them into a regulatory straitjacket; that every word that these companies issue from their corrupt hearts is suspect; and that money that we willingly spend to take advantage of their revolutionary technological advances must be clawed back in the form of taxes, penalties, mandatory payments and fines?
What has come over us in Canada? How have we convinced ourselves that technology companies like Google and Meta pose such a threat to humanity that we have to put them into a regulatory straitjacket; that every word that these companies issue from their corrupt hearts is suspect; and that money that we willingly spend to take advantage of their revolutionary technological advances must be clawed back in the form of taxes, penalties, mandatory payments and fines?
