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.

  • Paragone@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    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.