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More social media censorship
- Thread starter bigpoppa
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pfbmgd
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Trudeau's heritage minister: ‘Online hate’ legislation coming ‘very soon’ - LifeSite
'Our approach will require online platforms to eliminate illegal content, such as hate speech.'
www.lifesitenews.com
It's coming here while you are distracted by the VID care of your government .
This doesn't make it any less horrible, but this certainly isn't unique to Twitter. There are a lot of countries that are perfectly willing to make good on threats of just completely cutting off access to your platform if you don't play by their rules. Twitter, Facebook, and Google have all become comfortable with this game, and various totalitarian governments have learned that they can easily bend these companies to their will using this tactic.
bigpoppa
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Did you hear about the Myanmar military coup on canadian news outlets yet?
POWERMAN
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Now that you mention it - not really.
Funny enough I first came across it on Reddit seeing that girl's dancing video lol
CBC and City and SUN all reported something about Myanmar yesterday.
Everybody has picked up the dancing girl video.
I personally have no problem with taking down material that promotes hate, racism and particularly child abuse.Trudeau's heritage minister: ‘Online hate’ legislation coming ‘very soon’ - LifeSite
'Our approach will require online platforms to eliminate illegal content, such as hate speech.'
It's coming here while you are distracted by the VID care of your government .
The big problem with this law is none of that is defined, so its basically whatever Trudeau says it is.
I think the other issue is that, for example, Twitter has no presence in in Canada. He could try to sue them in Canada, but even if Twitter entertained the concept, they would simply make the argument that the case needed to be heard in a California jurisdiction where they are indemnified under section 230. I suspect its much more about shutting down any one who had a different point of view.
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Complaining about fb or Twitter censorship is like complaining about me deleting a post for bypassing the swear filter. It's Paul's site and you agreed to his terms. Facebook is Zuckerberg's site and you signed off on everything there. Same goes for Twitter. Parler....well?
pfbmgd
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You have no problem with taking down material ? But the big problems is that JT decides what material to take down.
All this is already covered by our laws . JT will create a ministry of truth his truth and your ok with that .
In your last line I think you finally got it . It has nothing to do with racism or anything else . It has everything to do with a different opinion . He control the media in Canada already . Now he will control the content on the internet .
Prove it.
As a first step, we can see what is written in the regulation (or more likely what is not written, it will probably be wide open for interpretation). Step two is see who enforces the legislation. It should be civil servants with no backdoor input from politicians. If the politicians want to interfere, they should send a public memo with their message to the civil servants. That way if a political party wants to suppress dissent, they have to be on the record with their approach. Enforcement of this should be incorporated in the regulation (eg. if a politician (or a member of their staff) talks/messages/attempts to influence to a civil servant in that branch, that is grounds for immediate dismissal and voiding of their pension). We all know JT won't have anything remotely like this in the proposed regulation.
boyoboy
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I don't think the point is where someone gets info - this, to me, is more about being able to express a displeasure with what is happening to indian farmers - in a public forum.
Ya' might want to loosen up your tinfoil hat there bud
Trudeau controls the media in Canada? In what dream world is this we're talking about?
... and controlling the internet in Canada. You don't know much about Canadian internet. Canada doesn't control Canadian internet. A big part of of Canada's internet is switched in the US.
Today, if you post Canadian hate speech on FB, an American company's property, you'll currently be breaking the EULA of FB, but you're not breaking any Canadian laws... that any decent lawyer can"t beat.
With this new Canadian law, Canadian hate speech is against the law and punishable anywhere it's posted. Canadian prosecutors will have a legal route to force FB, and the like, to reveal user's IP addresses in Canada.
Seems like a pretty typical Canadian law to me. High minded and entirely un-enforceable.
I can't see how any political group could use this law to suppress dissent.
Saying Trudeau is an idiot is dissent, but not hate speech or racist, so not illegal.
Saying Trudeau is an idiot because of his french-canadian heritage IS racist, so is illegal
I can spot the difference.
Remember, we as Canadian's don't have "Free Speech" guaranteed in our constitution. we just have laws against hate speech and racism, everything else is open for discussion.
You're allowed to say pretty well anything you want... and we're allowed to laugh at you for being a dipshit.
I like our system better.
Trudeau controls the media in Canada? In what dream world is this we're talking about?
... and controlling the internet in Canada. You don't know much about Canadian internet. Canada doesn't control Canadian internet. A big part of of Canada's internet is switched in the US.
Today, if you post Canadian hate speech on FB, an American company's property, you'll currently be breaking the EULA of FB, but you're not breaking any Canadian laws... that any decent lawyer can"t beat.
With this new Canadian law, Canadian hate speech is against the law and punishable anywhere it's posted. Canadian prosecutors will have a legal route to force FB, and the like, to reveal user's IP addresses in Canada.
Seems like a pretty typical Canadian law to me. High minded and entirely un-enforceable.
I can't see how any political group could use this law to suppress dissent.
Saying Trudeau is an idiot is dissent, but not hate speech or racist, so not illegal.
Saying Trudeau is an idiot because of his french-canadian heritage IS racist, so is illegal
I can spot the difference.
Remember, we as Canadian's don't have "Free Speech" guaranteed in our constitution. we just have laws against hate speech and racism, everything else is open for discussion.
You're allowed to say pretty well anything you want... and we're allowed to laugh at you for being a dipshit.
I like our system better.
I think you need to re-read what I wrote...
"The big problem with this law is none of that is defined, so its basically whatever Trudeau says it is."
Trudeau's heritage minister: ‘Online hate’ legislation coming ‘very soon’ - LifeSite
'Our approach will require online platforms to eliminate illegal content, such as hate speech.'
It's coming here while you are distracted by the VID care of your government .
You forgot something something some sheeple, communist country, Trudeau something or other, media control, lefty, something something.
Yes, actually, for a day or two now since it started
Problem is people get their "news" from social media too often now (unfu*kingbelievable) and when the latest viral cat video and whatever Biden ate for lunch that Trump fanatics are up in arms about and causes the algorithms to trend that to the top instead of the "boring" actual news, well, here ya go.
If people look outside social media, use some critical thinking, and source their news from other places (Start with Reuters), suddenly the fog lifts.
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