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Canada Proposes Life Sentences for Those Found Guilty of Online 'Hate Speech'
Red State ^ | February 27, 2024 | Ben Kew

Posted on 03/12/2024 10:18:44 PM PDT by Angelino97

The Canadian government is proposing a bill that would raise the maximum punishment for online hate speech from five years to a life sentence.

The proposal forms part of the latest Online Harms Bill, put forward by Justin Trudeau's left-wing government, which seeks to its assert control over online discourse:

The National Post reports:

"Bill C-63 aims to force social-media, user-uploaded adult content and live-streaming services to reduce exposure to online content deemed harmful, to strengthen the reporting of child pornography and to better address hate propaganda and provide recourse to victims of hate online.

"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."

Some of those provisions, including a clampdown on child pornography and other adult content, are obviously noble causes. Yet it is the definition of what the government calls "hate propaganda" that should cause all conservatives concern.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billc63; blackfacehitler; canada; dissent; freespeech; hatepropaganda; hatespeech; lifesentence; marxisttyranny; onlineharmsbill; onlinehatespeech; turdeau
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To: DoughtyOne

Meanwhile, the idea of Conservatives funding, staffing, managing and maintaining our own social media sites seems like. The Impossible Dream. Some do exist, but they are as scarce as Hens teeth and constantly under tech attacks by the libs. Similar to the country of Israel being surrounded by enemies.


21 posted on 03/12/2024 11:37:55 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Angelino97
"Canada Proposes Life Sentences for Those Found Guilty of Online 'Hate Speech'

Since Trudeau's been in office must seem to Canadians a life sentence.
22 posted on 03/12/2024 11:44:11 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: fidelis

Corollary:
Hate sounds like truth
to those who truly hate.


23 posted on 03/12/2024 11:53:44 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: All

Well as I’ve commented before, devil’s in the details of this proposed legislation which may not even get passed by parliament before an election, and then would face further obstacles in Senate and courts.

I am not getting the impression that “life sentences” would be handed out for the sort of speech being discussed here, it would be a possible sentence for more like incitements to kill Jews (or any identifiable group) and that sort of thing, but as always we remain vigilant and very concerned about details knowing track record and associations of some Liberals (not necessarily all).

You can read this story and think, if I lived in Canada and posted my usual stuff on line there, I would be going to jail for life. I don’t think so, but as I say, vigilance required. Also an election, which may solve the problem too.

This legislation is proposed but not passed into law, and I know for a fact there will be strong opposition to various parts of it coming from both political opponents and legal groups including some of a leftist variety.

Trudeau’s political career is probably nearing its end anyway, this may be a sort of desperation move designed to unite a party that is increasingly fractious. I am 99% certain this would be tossed by the Supreme Court in Canada, based on past decisions; they have tossed much tamer legislation than this over past decades.


24 posted on 03/12/2024 11:58:07 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (You don't have to like rainbow crosswalks to know a thug when you see one. )
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To: lee martell

X under Elon Musk is a lone outpost in social media where conservatives can debate leftists without getting banned.


25 posted on 03/12/2024 11:59:00 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: jimtorr

Yes,

That’s what it will come down to.


26 posted on 03/13/2024 12:01:00 AM PDT by Red6
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To: mass55th
Unintended consequences..
Wolverine... wait in Canada it's Caribou
just remember Justin...

27 posted on 03/13/2024 12:05:16 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Angelino97

Yeah right, it’s Canada. They’re going to crack down on the genocidal “From the river to the sea” slogan. /s


28 posted on 03/13/2024 12:17:39 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Peter ODonnell

Lesson.

The left always starts with the least defendable positions and then moves in.


29 posted on 03/13/2024 12:38:47 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: lee martell

Agreed, and with a similar complete lack of reasoned logic.


30 posted on 03/13/2024 12:55:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Angelino97

Canada is our fascist neighbor to the north.


31 posted on 03/13/2024 1:01:05 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Angelino97

The left wants a totalitarian state with them holding the whip. Hate Speech is a matter of opinion.


32 posted on 03/13/2024 1:15:02 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Angelino97

Whoever controls speech, controls thought. Whoever controls thought, controls the people!


33 posted on 03/13/2024 1:20:55 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“It didn’t take long for Canada to go from “mostly harmless” to Cuba jr.”

Well rumor is Trudope is Castro’s kid, so it makes sense. He can take a DNA test and prove a lot of people wrong.


34 posted on 03/13/2024 1:46:48 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Canada is our fascist neighbor to the north”

We might have to seal the boarder. Only semi /s. We have plenty of wood, don’t need there oil or food. Tough $hit for Ford or other USA companies doing business up there.It really could be done IMO. There aren’t enough Fascists in the world to take up the slack for Canada to export to.


35 posted on 03/13/2024 1:56:28 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Angelino97

I forgot I was reading about Canada, & assumed you were talking about Raskin.


36 posted on 03/13/2024 2:19:21 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Angelino97

Wow.

Tyrants and demagogues of yesteryear are salivating over their missed opportunities because they didn’t have the technology we do.


37 posted on 03/13/2024 2:51:18 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: mass55th
Might as well just kill the people you hate then, since the sentence won’t be any harsher than simply speaking your own mind freely.

Most certain to not be.

38 posted on 03/13/2024 2:53:43 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Angelino97

And remember - THEY define what is “hate speech”


39 posted on 03/13/2024 3:04:55 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: All

Closer to home.......The City of College Park, Maryland, hired a “racial equity” leader to spearhead its mission to eliminate systemic racism in its departments who has made statements defending violence and promoting the idea of a revolution against the United States.

Kayla Aliese Carter supports “Black liberation” through revolutionary means and said she is working with some activists to plan “how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down.”

She was hired in 2022 to be a “Racial Equity Officer” under Muslim Mayor Fazlul Kabir from Bangladesh.


40 posted on 03/13/2024 3:20:41 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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