{"id":68562,"date":"2024-06-11T19:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68562"},"modified":"2024-06-11T19:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:18:38","slug":"trudeau-pushes-online-censorship-bill-to-protect-people-from-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68562","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To \u201cProtect\u201d People From \u201cMisinformation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To \u201cProtect\u201d People From \u201cMisinformation\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week complained that governments have allegedly been left without the necessary tools to \u201cprotect people from misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cdire\u201d warning came as part of Trudeau\u2019s effort to have the\u00a0Online Harms Act (Bill C-63)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 one of the most\u00a0controversial<\/a>\u00a0of its kind pieces of censorship legislation in Canada of late \u2013 pushed across the finish line in the country\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n

C-63 has gained notoriety among civil rights and privacy advocates because of some of its provisions around \u201chate speech,\u201d \u201chate propaganda,\u201d and \u201chate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the first two, people would be punished before they commit any transgression, but also retroactively.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0in a podcast interview for the New York Times<\/a>, Trudeau defended C-63 as a solution to the \u201chate speech\u201d problem, and clearly, a necessary \u201ctool,\u201d since according to this politician, other avenues to battle real or imagined hate speech and crimes resulting from it online have been exhausted.<\/p>\n

Not one to balk at speaking out of both sides of his mouth, Trudeau at one point essentially admits that the more control governments have (and the bill is all about control, critics say, regardless of how its sponsors try to sugarcoat it) the more likely they are to abuse it.<\/p>\n

He nevertheless goes on to declare that new legislative methods of \u201cprotecting people from misinformation\u201d are needed and, in line with this, talk up C-63 as some sort of balanced approach to the problem.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s difficult to see that \u201cbalance\u201d in C-63, which is currently debated in the House of Commons. If it becomes law, it will allow the authorities to keep people under house arrest should they decide these people could somewhere down the line commit \u201chate crime or hate propaganda\u201d \u2013 a chilling application of the concept of \u201cpre-crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To \u201cProtect\u201d People From \u201cMisinformation\u201d Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week complained that governments have allegedly been left without the necessary tools to \u201cprotect people from misinformation.\u201d This \u201cdire\u201d warning came as part of Trudeau\u2019s effort to have the\u00a0Online Harms Act (Bill C-63)\u00a0\u2013 one of the most\u00a0controversial\u00a0of its kind […]<\/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":[120,33879,34698,4169,1426,34548,33878],"class_list":["post-68562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-government-censorshp","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-misinformation","tag-online-harms-act","tag-reclaim-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562","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=68562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68563,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions\/68563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}