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A Canadian law that aims to make social media platforms safer is getting flak for what some decry as government overreach.
Introduced late last month, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate for genocide.
The law would also allow a provincial judge to impose house arrest and a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe a defendant “will commit” an offense – a provision Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Taube likened to the 2002 film “Minority Report.”
Taube writes in the Wall Street Journal piece:
On Feb. 26 Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal government introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which targets so-called hate speech on the internet. One of its provisions would enable anyone, with the consent of the federal attorney general, to “lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit” an offense. The judge could then issue a “peace bond” imposing conditions, including house arrest and electronic monitoring, on the defendant merely because it’s feared he could commit a hate crime.
The bill would also expand the power of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which was founded in 1977 to address workplace discrimination. A law known as Section 13 widened the CHRC’s portfolio in 2001 to include policing the “discriminatory practice” of engaging in online communications that were “likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt.” Parliament repealed Section 13 in 2014 after high-profile complaints designed to harass conservative commentators Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant.
Today’s Wall Street Journal (@WSJ, @WSJopinion) op-ed, “Online Harms Act: Crime and Punishment, Not in That Order.” https://t.co/K0fYYG871Q
— Michael Taube (@michaeltaube) March 13, 2024
In the imminent, dystopian post-Online Harms Act Canada, the government can arrest you even though you have committed no crime. https://t.co/Bjso7L2mDi
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) February 29, 2024
If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting! Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill https://t.co/GziivgfNGt
— Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) March 9, 2024
Below is a clip from a 2019 interview with Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin, a Russian-British satirist, author, and co-host. Kisin is speaking with John Anderson, a conservative Australian politician who served as the country’s deputy prime minister and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005.
Kisen reveals that in 2018, 400 people were arrested in Russia just for what they said on social media, and a stunning 3,300 were arrested in Britain for things they said on social media.
Watch:
“In Russia last year 400 people were arrested for what they said on social media”
“How many people do you think were arrested in Britain?” pic.twitter.com/a0QDqAGB14
— Anti WEF (@ANTlWEF) March 4, 2024
Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act) also has a retro-active section where you can be held liable for something you said on the Internet years ago. So, with the new law, an anonymous person can launch a complaint on something you said five or ten years ago.#thoughtcrime pic.twitter.com/fZwPsczZ3N
— Tom Quiggin (@TomTSEC) February 29, 2024
Canadian law endorsed by Trudeau government could imprison people for life for speech crimes https://t.co/VyzIM14wZh
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, 2024
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