Welp, if the Canadian government proved anything today, it's that the American government doesn't hold a monopoly on making ridiculously stupid remarks about things like news links, platforms, and technology in general: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/CHPC/meeting-101/notice
https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=12451690
This was after Meta dropped news links and 21 days away from Google presumably doing the same thing. There's no talking any sense to them, is there?