Liberals' convention pitch to fight online disinformation denounced as assault on free press
The resolution passed at the convention on Saturday morning, when there were only about two dozen people in the room. The policy resolution is among two dozen passed by grassroots party members.The resolution is non-binding, which means the party can ignore it altogether.
"A Liberal government would never implement a policy that would limit freedom of the press or dictate how journalists would do their work," said Rodriquez's press secretary Laura Scaffidi in an email. Responding to criticism Monday, the author of the resolution, B.C. Liberal Catherine Evans, said the policy was never intended to "target reputable Canadian journalists" but rather to combat disinformation people post anonymously online.
It was "probably a mistake", Evans said, to use the technical term "sources" in the resolution rather than making it clear she was trying to target "anonymous postings." Geist said it shouldn't be up to the federal government to decide "who is a good journalist and who is a bad journalist" and come up with new regulations for those seen as "not good."
"The moment we invite this state to do that, or mandate the state to do that, we now have state-run media, we now have state censorship," Thomas told CBC News.
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