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  Canadian parliaments lower house passed legislation that would bring  online streaming  platforms under the stewardship of the country’s broadcast regulator and compel firms like YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify to offer more local content. The bill, brought by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, cleared the House of Commons by 208 votes to 117, with support from the opposition New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois. The government says the legislation would ensure that online streaming services promote Canadian music and stories and support local jobs. Critics say it was rushed to a vote, and concerns raised about the bill, such as the potential impact on independent content creators, were not addressed. Heritage Minister of Canada Pablo Rodriguez, who introduced the bill in February, says the changes are meant for online commercial programs and would not apply to individual Canadians. Bill C-11 passed the third reading in the House of Commons of the Ca...

  An Australian court ordered Google to pay a former politician, John Barilaro, A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to remove a YouTube content creator’s defamatory videos drove him out of politics. The Federal Court found Alphabet Inc.’s subsidiary Google deliberately made money by hosting two videos on its YouTube website attacking Barliaro, the then-deputy premier of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, viewed almost 800,000 times since being uploaded in 2020. The court’s ruling revived the question of how much culpability technology firms had for defamation carried by users on their Australian websites, one of the few Western countries where online platforms are held to the same legal responsibility as content publishers. Australia is reviewing what   legal  exposure websites should have for defamatory posts. In 2021, a landmark case found a newspaper was liable for defamatory reader comments below an article posted on Meta’s Facebook. The court...