Our heritage minister, Steven Guillbeault, is pushing for fines for companies who do not immediately remove illegal content within 24 hours. “That should include rules about hate speech, the letter said, as well as radicalization, incitement to violence, exploitation of children, or creation or distribution of terrorist propaganda”
Needless to say, the bars for hate speech and radicalization are subjective at best.
Venezuela is using its hate speech laws to go after its political opposition.
They’re using the “save the children” excuse to control the narrative online.
Since this is Canada, you can get your ass that this kind of legislation will absolutely be passed, and nobody will even know about it. I suggest you all pay for a VPN today, and use Brave or Tor web browser, enable DNS over HTTPS, avoid google where possible and use Duck Duck Go search engine.
If you want to go nuclear, get a router that can run a VPN directly instead of using one on your computer, install a version of Linux OS on your computer, or use Tails OS installed on a flash drive.
When this kind of legislation passes, if you're on this site, there's a target on your back. Think it can't happen? Look at what happened to Carpe Donktum. Trudeau loves Europe, he'll get behind any piece of legislation that makes Canada more like them.
Firefox with privacy badger and ublock origin over brave. One is open source and is aiming to protect your privacy, the other is a corporation whose business model is the appearance of privacy based on chrome.