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New Liberal 'online harms' bill to make online hate punishable up to life in prison (CANADA)
nationalpost.co ^ | Feb 26, 2024 | Catherine Lévesque

Posted on 12/13/2024 8:05:04 PM PST by ransomnote

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It also amends the Criminal Code to create a new standalone hate crime offence that would allow penalties up to life imprisonment to deter hateful conduct, as well as raise the maximum punishments for hate propaganda offences from five years to life imprisonment for advocating genocide.

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Harmful content is defined in the legislation as content that incites violence, that foments hatred, that incites violent extremism or terrorism, is used to bully a child, that sexually victimizes a child, that induces a child to harm themselves, or intimate content communicated without consent.

The bill also creates a new Digital Safety Commission, which will be responsible for enforcing rules and holding online services accountable, as well as a separate Digital Safety Ombudsperson, which will support and advocate for users and make recommendations to social media services and the government.

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Online services that do not abide by the rules could be subject to severe penalties as high as six per cent of global revenue or $10 million, whichever is greater.

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An earlier version of the bill, C-36, was introduced in 2021, but died shortly afterward, when an election was called. The government was planning to legislate on five categories of online harms, such as content inciting violence, the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, child exploitation, hate speech and content promoting terrorism.

 

 

At the time, the bill was heavily criticized by privacy experts and civil liberties groups for giving social media platforms only 24 hours to remove any content deemed harmful, or face punishment, potentially infringing on freedom of expression by encouraging companies to take down acceptable materials.

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KEYWORDS: canada; civilrights; despotism; dissent; eh; freedomofspeech; freespeech; linguisticgymnastics; mapleleafswastika; nazis; newspeak; northerncuba; snownazis; waronfreedomofspeech; waronfreespeech
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1 posted on 12/13/2024 8:05:04 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

I hate Canadians So sue me.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 8:06:23 PM PST by Veto! (Kamalala Sucks Rocks)
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To: Veto!

We have some great FREepers from Canada on FR. More spine and patriotism that too many Americans. No lawsuit - just wanted to give a shout out to valued FReepers from the Great White North.


3 posted on 12/13/2024 8:07:40 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Time to liberate Canada.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 8:12:48 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ransomnote

Why don’t they make taking bribes to not shoot down hostile drones punishable by life in prison?


5 posted on 12/13/2024 8:14:25 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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So....less time for murder then engaging in hate speech?


6 posted on 12/13/2024 8:18:08 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: ransomnote

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


7 posted on 12/13/2024 8:26:59 PM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR's own "nitzy")
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To: ransomnote

Why would North Korea do this?


8 posted on 12/13/2024 8:27:54 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: ransomnote

Canada is a country I guess I never have to visit, again.


9 posted on 12/13/2024 8:28:28 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The bill also creates a new Digital Safety Commission“

They should go all the way and call it the Ministry of Truth.


10 posted on 12/13/2024 8:28:38 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: ransomnote

So, if you say you hate Oreos, they can put you in jail for life? That’s a little overkill, isn’t it?


11 posted on 12/13/2024 10:42:10 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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Wow… just WOW! They seriously are trying to set up the machinery for totalitarian government and absolute suppression of all dissent.

THEY WHO CONTROL THE DEFINITION OF HATE CONTROL ALL SPEECH AND ALL BEHAVIOR.

I feel very sorry for our brothers and sisters up north. The same thing happening in Canada is happening in the EU and Britain.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 10:48:26 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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What exactly is “hate” speech?

I thought we hadd that old freedom of speech thing :)

Yelling “fire” in a crowded venue can be dangerous.

Saying “I hate Blacks/Italians/Hisppanics/Men/Women/Dogs/Cats is an opinion...a lousy opinion for grouping an entire ethnicity or thype of animal :)

But still an opinion.

Any term the left invented is ALWAYS bad.


13 posted on 12/13/2024 11:35:27 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: ransomnote

I hate Castreau, all leftists, all globalists and all neocons. Try and come get me, Justin Boy!


14 posted on 12/14/2024 12:40:31 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: House Atreides

“THEY WHO CONTROL THE DEFINITION OF HATE CONTROL ALL SPEECH AND ALL BEHAVIOR.”

Absolutely. And you can bet it is coming here eventually. And I want to say this before hand. Those faithful and moral who decide to support it “for the kids” need to think about it twice. The communists consider all things religious as hate speech. Any words related to Christ and all symbols will be outlawed. Supporting this concept based on faith or so called morality will be the undoing of your very own faith. They will not carve out a special immunity for Christianity. It will be the very first to go. Where is the morality in destroying your own faith “for the kids”?


15 posted on 12/14/2024 1:14:22 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: ransomnote

This is why Jordan Peterson is moving to the U.S. I think the term he used for Canada if they passed this was Totalitarian Hellhole.


16 posted on 12/14/2024 2:17:41 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I HATE CANADA
TRUDEAU IS A FAGGOT
TRUDEAU IS A TRANS WOMAN


17 posted on 12/14/2024 4:25:39 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ransomnote

Harmful content is defined in the legislation as

content that incites violence, that foments hatred,

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ok .

you know what has formented hatred in my heart ?

the following :

a new Digital Safety Commission,

which will be responsible for enforcing rules and holding online services accountable,...

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so ,,. are they going to jail themselves ?


18 posted on 12/14/2024 6:16:15 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: ransomnote

The criminalization of emotion.


19 posted on 12/14/2024 6:30:46 AM PST by TimSkalaBim
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“that sexually victimizes a child, that induces a child to harm themselves”

So any pro-trans propaganda agent that causes a child to undergo sexual mutilation from the so-called medical community will be punished? Hey, I like it!


20 posted on 12/14/2024 6:31:23 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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