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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

• tdhoot 7y ago
  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-reforming-the-dojs-corporate-settlement-bonanza https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/305055-refo...
• sjwright 7y ago
  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.”