MONTREAL — On paper, anyway, Québec solidaire is staunch in its opposition to Big Tech. Reading the leftie political party spiel, one is left to believe the likes of Meta and Google are vultures or worse, crippling Quebec’s “fragile” culture when they aren’t sucking its journalistic institutions dry. Putting an end to Big Tech’s “unfair competition”—mostly by taxing the bejesus out of it—was part of the party’s platform for an election nearly a year ago.
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