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Canada's long-awaited online harms bill is coming. Here's what we know (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

five kinds of harmful content: hate speech, terrorist content, incitement to violence, the sharing of non-consensual images, and child exploitation

Sounds good on the surface but I'm sure there will be massive oversteps and oversights.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

massive oversteps and oversights.

It's ok, you won't be needing those pesky privacy rights anyways.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm confident in my ability to stay one step ahead of bureaucrats but most people can't even set up a router. When companies comply with regional locks most people will have no choice but to comply.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Exactly. I'll look for Michael Geist's analysis after the text is available.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I don't like the government infringing on my right to bear harms

[+] [email protected] -27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Will Trudeau be punished for his blackface pictures causing harm....

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That wouldn't make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.

Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you're right, on that point.

Pretending that such things won't ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing

miscarriage
some brain-wirings/genders
violating christofascist supremacism
not being a Trump-cult member

as the next few years will demonstrate,

is naive/incompetent.

Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now "use"/abuse law.

That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only if churches stop portaying Jesus as a white man. 😄

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can blame a certain emperor for making everyone paint his son as Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Cool - but why do churches keep painting Jesus white.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You used ellipses instead of a question mark. Will you be held accountable for the harm you've inflicted?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If he makes new ones in the future that would be possible if they could be shown to cause harm, but you don't actually get to retroactively charge somebody for something over a decade ago that wasn't a crime then.

Speaking of over a decade ago, maybe you should move on eh?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apply that to other politicians. Move on. Heh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's not about the politician, it's about the pulling out crap that happened decades ago before he even was one.

Seriously, get a new schtick, it's not like there's a leak is current issues to pissed at JT (or as you say, other politicians) about.