{"id":57451,"date":"2021-04-13T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57451"},"modified":"2021-04-13T06:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:35:27","slug":"canada-to-censor-political-taunts-implement-internet-kill-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57451","title":{"rendered":"Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch.<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Constituents to remain fair game for abuse from party apparatchiks)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A colleague forwarded me the text of an article from Blackrocks Reporter<\/a>, which covers Canadian politics from Ottawa, our capitol.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a report on Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guibeault\u2019s ongoing vendetta against non-conforming political speech on the internet, in which he\u2019s calling for censorship of \u201churtful\u201d comments against politicians and implementation of an internet killswitch<\/em> to facilitate it.<\/p>\n

Blackrocks is behind a paywall, permit me to quote it here:<\/p>\n

\u2018Federal internet censors should target hurtful words against politicians<\/strong>, says Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault. The Minister added pending regulations may include an internet kill switch to block websites deemed hurtful<\/strong>, but called it a \u201cnuclear\u201d option.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen too many examples of public officials retreating from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families,\u201d said Guilbeault.\u00a0 \u201cI have seen firsthand alongside other Canadians the damaging effects harmful content has on our families, our values and our institutions. As a dad and a stepdad to six kids, I know more can and should be done to create a safer online environment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Guilbeault made his remarks in a podcast sponsored by Canada 2020, an Ottawa think tank affiliated with the Liberal Party. Legislation to censor internet content will be introduced shortly, he said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am confident we can get this adopted<\/strong>,\u201d said Guilbeault. \u201cOnce the legislation is adopted, clearly creating a new body, a new regulator like that in Canada, would take some time.<\/strong>\u201d\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The same story is covered here by the Post Millienial<\/a> (the rest of Canada\u2019s \u201capproved media\u201d, as in the ones who received hundreds of millions in tax breaks and subsidies<\/a> from the Federal Government in the run up to the last election, are not giving it a lot of airtime for some reason).<\/p>\n

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Canada to censor political taunts. Implement internet kill switch. (Constituents to remain fair game for abuse from party apparatchiks) A colleague forwarded me the text of an article from Blackrocks Reporter, which covers Canadian politics from Ottawa, our capitol. It\u2019s a report on Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guibeault\u2019s ongoing vendetta against non-conforming political speech on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30908,103,120,23383,14545],"class_list":["post-57451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bomb-thrower","tag-canada","tag-censorship","tag-mark-e-jeftovic","tag-narrative-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57452,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451\/revisions\/57452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}