# digital trade (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover digital trade. Page: Feed: --- ## [Digital Trade Alignment: What May Be in Play in the Canada-U.S. Trade Deal](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/digital-trade-alignment-what-may-be-in-play-in-the-canada-u-s-trade-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digital-trade-alignment-what-may-be-in-play-in-the-canada-u-s-trade-deal) _2026-08-19 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Less than two hours before new U.S. tariffs on Canada were set to take effect, U.S. President Trump last night announced a three-day pause, claiming there is a deal “subject to the finalization of documents.” Prime Minister Carney released a statement saying that substantial progress had been made, without offering much detail. But a congratulatory tweet from the U.S. Trade Representative offered… ## [TMU Picks Damage Control Over Fixing the Damage: Behind Its Shameful Response to the Devastating Benotto Report on Campus Antisemitism](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/tmuantisemitism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tmuantisemitism) _2026-08-18 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Last fall, two incidents at Toronto Metropolitan University attracted national attention: the September 2025 disruption by the group Students for Justice in Palestine at TMU of a Democracy Forum event featuring federal AI minister Evan Solomon that ended in an arrest, and the November 2025 storming of an off-campus event hosted by Students Supporting Israel that left the speaker hospitalized. TMU… ## [Thanks For Joining the Movement: French Constitutional Council Strikes Down Kids’ Social Media Ban](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/thanks-for-joining-the-movement-french-constitutional-council-strikes-down-kids-social-media-ban/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-for-joining-the-movement-french-constitutional-council-strikes-down-kids-social-media-ban) _2026-08-17 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ French President Emmanuel Macron has been the global leader in promoting a ban on social media for kids, consistently welcoming countries that propose such measures with a “thanks for joining the movement” tweet . That includes Canada, which received its congratulatory tweet after a ban was included in Bill C-34 . As I argued last month , however, I believe the Canadian ban is vulnerable to… ## [Denial, Hate, and Silence: The Three Responses to Overwhelming Evidence of Canada’s Campus Antisemitism Crisis](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/denial-hate-and-silence-the-three-responses-to-overwhelming-evidence-of-canadas-campus-antisemitism-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=denial-hate-and-silence-the-three-responses-to-overwhelming-evidence-of-canadas-campus-antisemitism-crisis) _2026-08-12 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ One week ago, the release of the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report provided the most comprehensive national data to date on antisemitism on Canadian university campuses. As I wrote in my post on it , there is a crisis: of the more than 900 Jewish students surveyed, 95.7% experienced or witnessed antisemitism over the previous year, 72% limit what they say in class, 57%… ## [The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 278: Ben Waldman on Gander Social and the Challenges of Building a Sovereign Social Network](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-278-ben-waldman-on-gander-social-and-the-challenges-of-building-a-sovereign-social-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-278-ben-waldman-on-gander-social-and-the-challenges-of-building-a-sovereign-social-network) _2026-08-10 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Sovereignty, whether digital sovereignty, data sovereignty, or AI sovereignty, has been the hot-button issue in Canada for months. Governments have shifted policies in hopes of addressing the issue, the public has expressed interest in Canadian alternatives, and the business community has rushed to meet that interest. But what does it actually take to create a true, sovereign alternative? We now… [Listen](https://episodes.castos.com/lawbytes/2557746/c1e-rzxdao0pq3s23ng7-0v4909g0hrnz-l8uax6.mp3) ## [Canada’s Campus Antisemitism Crisis: National Survey Finds Antisemitism Nearly Everywhere and University Responses Nowhere](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/caseantisemitismsurvey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caseantisemitismsurvey) _2026-08-06 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ For the better part of two years, I have written about antisemitism on Canadian university campuses from the vantage point of personal experience: a post I never thought I would need to write on the right of Jewish students to feel safe on campus, the normalization of antisemitism at encampments including at my own university, the trepidation that accompanied a new academic year , and the chilling… ## [Why the Answers to Hateful Content Online are Hiding in the Platforms’ Own Rules](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/why-the-answers-to-hateful-content-online-are-hiding-in-the-platforms-own-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-the-answers-to-hateful-content-online-are-hiding-in-the-platforms-own-rules) _2026-08-04 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ The Canadian government has a two-pronged legal strategy to counter rising hate: New Criminal Code provisions to address offline harms, such as intimidation or protests outside schools and places of worship, and the digital safety bill introduced in June, which targets online harms. A new legal duty to act responsibly , which would require internet platforms to publish digital safety plans,… ## [From CCH to ChatGPT: How Canadian Copyright Law Played the Key Role in Deciding a Leading AI Training Data Case in India](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/from-cch-to-chatgpt-how-canadian-copyright-law-played-the-key-role-in-deciding-a-leading-ai-training-data-case-in-india/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-cch-to-chatgpt-how-canadian-copyright-law-played-the-key-role-in-deciding-a-leading-ai-training-data-case-in-india) _2026-07-30 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ The Delhi High Court has released what may be one of the most consequential copyright decisions yet on artificial intelligence, ruling in ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v. OpenAI that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted news articles to train the models behind ChatGPT is prima facie fair dealing. The 135-page decision of Justice Amit Bansal, released last week, dismissed an Indian news agency’s application for an… ## [Starting Over: Court Filing Confirms the CRTC’s Streamer Contribution Decisions Are Dead With a Full Online Streaming Act Reset to Come](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/starting-over-court-filing-confirms-the-crtcs-streamer-contribution-decisions-are-dead-with-a-full-online-streaming-act-reset-to-come/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starting-over-court-filing-confirms-the-crtcs-streamer-contribution-decisions-are-dead-with-a-full-online-streaming-act-reset-to-come) _2026-07-29 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ When the government announced plans last month to kill the CRTC’s Online Streaming Act ruling , it left a critical question unanswered: was the target only the Commission’s decision to increase streamer contributions to 15 percent , or did the reversal extend to the original base contribution decision requiring foreign streamers to contribute five percent of their Canadian revenues? A new court… ## [The Name on the Window Was Enough: The Attacks on Kiva’s and the Normalization of Antisemitic Violence in Canada](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/the-name-on-the-window-was-enough-the-attacks-on-kivas-and-the-normalization-of-antisemitic-violence-in-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-name-on-the-window-was-enough-the-attacks-on-kivas-and-the-normalization-of-antisemitic-violence-in-canada) _2026-07-28 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Kiva’s, the well-known Toronto Jewish bakery, was struck by gunfire and smashed windows in two locations over the weekend . This one is personal as Kiva was my grandmother’s cousin. Both were Holocaust survivors who rebuilt their lives in Toronto, and though he sold the business years ago, the owners have kept his name on the window ever since. Whoever fired at that window almost certainly knew… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wAOGAbx6eD0I) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 277: Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/episode-277-kate-robertson-on-the-risks-that-lie-behind-canadas-unexpected-signing-of-the-un-cybercrime-convention/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-277-kate-robertson-on-the-risks-that-lie-behind-canadas-unexpected-signing-of-the-un-cybercrime-convention) _2026-07-27 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ The Canadian government’s surprise decision to sign the UN Cybercrime Convention has sparked many questions about the convention, its risks, and what changed over the past nine months between Canada no-showing the signing in Vietnam and this month’s reversal. To help answer those questions, there is no one better than Kate Robertson , a senior research associate at the Citizen Lab, who has been… [Listen](https://episodes.castos.com/lawbytes/2548587/c1e-no24az68g1i9jjdq-rko31p5wfo51-gajpfa.mp3) ## [A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: The Trouble With Canada’s Quiet Decision to Sign the UN Cybercrime Convention](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention) _2026-07-23 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Last week, the government announced that Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime , with Ministers Anita Anand, Gary Anandasangaree and Sean Fraser touting the treaty’s child protection provisions and human rights safeguards, which were described as “among the strongest found in an international criminal justice treaty.” The announcement, released in mid-July with few… ## [Rushing Lawful Access Backfires: Wyden Letter on Bill C-22 Highlights Political, Trade and Business Risks](https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/rushing-lawful-access-backfires-wyden-letter-on-bill-c-22-highlights-political-trade-and-business-risks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rushing-lawful-access-backfires-wyden-letter-on-bill-c-22-highlights-political-trade-and-business-risks) _2026-07-21 · Michael Geist · Michael Geist_ Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and the government presumably hoped that pushing Bill C-22 through a House of Commons committee past midnight without debate or a recorded vote would put an end to the lawful access controversy. A new letter from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden , the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee that holds jurisdiction over trade, suggests the opposite. The… ## [FTAs: Reforms coming to Australia's approach to trade negotiations](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/ftas-reforms-coming-to-australias) _2026-07-09 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Last week, the Trade and Investment Agreements (Consultation) Bill 2026 (the Bill) was introduced to the Australian Parliament. The Bill is meant to “improve transparency and community input into FTA negotiations”, and contains requirements for the government to announce when negotiations start, publish negotiating objectives, obtain independent analysis of agreements, and review agreements after… ## [US: What to read on the Supreme Court's IEEPA ruling and what comes next](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/us-what-to-read-on-the-supreme-courts) _2026-02-26 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Last Friday, the Supreme Court found the President can't use IEEPA to impose tariffs. I’ve collected some of the most useful commentary on the decision and what's coming next in this post ## [2026: What's interesting (to me) in trade in 2026](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/2026-whats-interesting-to-me-in-trade) _2026-01-22 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ It’s the start of a new year and, as in the past two years, that’s a good time to take a look at what I think could be interesting in trade in 2026. ## [AfCFTA: Rules of Origin for Digital Products - new approaches in the Digital Trade Protocol's ROO Annex](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/afcfta-rules-of-origin-for-digital) _2025-11-21 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Last year I wrote about the African Continental Free Trade Agreement’s (AfCFTA) Digital Trade Protocol (the Protocol), which on paper contains some relatively high ambition digital trade rules. ## [US: Deals with Cambodia and Malaysia - thoughts on services MFN, digital trade triggers, and alignment with US trade measures](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/us-deals-with-cambodia-and-malaysia) _2025-11-01 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Last weekend the United States (US) signed two new trade agreements - one with Cambodia and one with Malaysia. I’m a bit late to comment but there are a few of points of interest that stood out to me that I haven’t seen highlighted elsewhere yet. ## [India-UK CETA: Interesting things in Services, Digital Trade, and the Security Exception](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/india-uk-ceta-interesting-things) _2025-08-06 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ In an era of “napkin deals”, it’s nice to see some countries still doing the hard work of entering into comprehensive, concrete and legal binding trade agreements. ## [CPTPP: Six suggestions for potential wins in Australia's chairing year](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/cptpp-six-suggestions-for-potential) _2025-07-02 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ We are now about halfway into Australia’s year chairing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, so here are six suggestions of concrete work that could be done to keep the agreement relevant and effective as we head into the last six months of 2025. ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0nLW75SahNtj) _2025-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [FTAs: "Forward Most-Favoured-Nation" treatment on the table in India-US negotiations](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/ftas-forward-most-favoured-nation) _2025-05-08 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ Reuters reported last week that India may be considering offering a “forward most-favoured-nation” (MFN) clause in the trade agreement it is negotiating with the United States. This post examines some past precedent for including MFN on goods in trade agreements. ## [RCEP: Insiders' views of the RCEP negotiations - interviews with RCEP negotiators](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/rcep-insiders-views-of-the-rcep-negotiations) _2025-04-21 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ For those following trade agreement negotiations, I recently came across an open access book published in February that will likely be of interest. It includes a chapter with verbatim answers from RCEP negotiators to a range of questions that provides interesting insights into the negotiation dynamics and drivers. ## [US: Initial reactions to Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs - minimal retaliation, lots of negotiations, early signs of cooperation](https://tradenotes.substack.com/p/us-initial-reactions-to-trumps-reciprocal) _2025-04-12 · Devon Whittle · Trade Notes_ A week is now a long time in trade policy and for the past week I’ve been tracking the various reactions to the US’s so-called reciprocal tariffs (now paused at 10% for everyone but China for 90 days).