🇨🇦 Canada wants a Big Tobacco moment with Meta after spending years forcing citizens deeper into algorithmic dependency

Now the political class suddenly discovers social media might be harmful to kids. How touching. Ottawa spent a decade outsourcing culture, discourse, and attention spans to Silicon Valley, then acted shocked when Meta allegedly engineered addiction. The lawsuit, as reported, is being framed as a Big Tobacco moment. Fine. But let’s not pretend the same governing class that lectures parents about screen time did not build its own censorship, propaganda, and narrative-management machine on these platforms.

Meta deserves scrutiny. So do the politicians and bureaucrats who used Big Tech when it served regime interests, then discovered public health outrage once the damage was too obvious to spin away. Canada keeps importing instability, atomizing communities, and replacing real civic life with digitized social control, then blames the app. The issue is not just Meta. It is a hollow ruling class that surrendered national culture to global platforms and now wants applause for filing paperwork after the fire.

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