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Mots clés Réglementation;Impérialisme des plateformes;Discrimination relative aux données;Travail numérique;Design spéculatif Introduction Platforms and algorithms increasingly mediate everything, from the micro level to the macro level, including our social lives (Cotter, 2019);applying for jobs (Kircher, 2020);healthcare, where algorithms are used in both the tracking and treatment of COVID-19 (Parry, 2020;Suciu, n d );culture and entertainment, where platforms and algorithms replicate or disrupt the hierarchies of the star system (Van Dijck, 2009);and politics, from political and activist communications to international relations (Bucher, 2018;Roose, n d ;Velkova & Kaun, 2019) Panelists included Sara Bannerman (McMaster University), whose work focuses on platform regulation in relation to privacy and intellectual property;Christina Baade (McMaster University), whose work focuses on the intersection between popular music, sound media, and power, with particular attention to questions of labour, gender, race, and national belonging;Rena Bivens (Carleton University), whose work focuses on the software underlying platforms and identity-based programming practices, or how identity categories are shaped by software;Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto), whose work examines the social and policy aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with particular focus on issues of gender, youth, and political economy;Tamara Shepherd (University of Calgary), whose work focuses on the feminist political economy of digital culture, online privacy, intellectual property, and infrastructure regulation;and Andrea Zeffiro (McMaster University), whose work is concerned with how social, political, and economic processes normalize behaviours and attitudes about the value of datafication, and how systems of power, in/justice, and in/equity are sustained through the quantification of collective life The context for the discussion reflects the Canadian regulatory landscape, oriented primarily around the main media and communications regulator at the federal level, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and other government agencies also implicated in the regulation of platforms-for example, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada;provincial information and privacy commissioners;Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Competition Bureau Canada Because Zuckerberg is, in his way, a ruler over a domain far larger than any single country (at the time of writing, Facebook has over 2 billion monthly active users), his actions might be read through the lens of political leadership
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