SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of "crushing free speech" in Canada, following a recent Canadian government order that makes it compulsory for online streaming services to formally register with the government for 'regulatory controls'.
Musk, who called the act “shameful,” was responding to a post by journalist and author Glenn Greenwald, who commented on the ruling on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
"The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all 'online streaming services that offer podcasts' must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls," Glenn Greenwald posted on X.
In April, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it would stop posting on the social media platform after Musk labelled the broadcaster "69% government funded," implying the CBC is not editorially independent.
That said, the CBC did receive 65.2% of its C$1.2 billion in revenue from Canada's government in the last financial year, UK’s Daily Mail reported.
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