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.
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.
massive oversteps and oversights.
It’s ok, you won’t be needing those pesky privacy rights anyways.
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.
Exactly. I’ll look for Michael Geist’s analysis after the text is available.
I don’t like the government infringing on my right to bear harms
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Will Trudeau be punished for his blackface pictures causing harm…
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.
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.
You used ellipses instead of a question mark. Will you be held accountable for the harm you’ve inflicted?
Only if churches stop portaying Jesus as a white man. 😄
You can blame a certain emperor for making everyone paint his son as Jesus.
