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Is Canada allowed to do that? The United States wouldn't be: it's a bill of attainder.

The government donating to specific non-profits is sketchy as hell, too. Both of your solutions sounds like considerably more serious problems than Zuckerberg refusing to appear.



Even in America there has been a recent troubling trend towards Department of Justice settlements being used to direct money to specific non-profits [0]. There was an effort to outlaw these settlements but it seems to have gone nowhere.

[0]: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/305055-refo...


As philwelch said elsewhere, it could be implemented as a normal tax and have much the same effect—as long as the legislation could be sufficiently narrowed to social media e.g. “sites where the content is predominantly generated by its customers.”




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