We know that Zohran Mamdani’s rise is the product of a deeply troubling trend whose consequences may be more consequential than the ups and downs of the electoral cycle.
There’s no such thing as a safe backdoor. “Lawful access” means building a weakness into encryption that governments promise only they’ll use. History shows us that every lawful backdoor eventually becomes a criminal’s front door.
Google and Meta have said they will strip Canadian news from their platforms in response to new federal legislation forcing tech giants to pay publishers for news they share through their services.
Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia and Mary Lynn Young, University of British Columbia