Trudeau’s Campaign Against Hate Speech
Segment # 162
The only question one should ask is who is the arbiter of hate speech. Clearly, it is not the people it is Trudeau and the Canadian government. See this bill’s definition of hate speech;
“The Act defines "hate speech" as the content of a communication that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group on the basis of prohibited grounds of discrimination, such as race, national/ethnic origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, family status, disability, or conviction for an offense with a pardon/record suspension. Additionally, for it to constitute "hate speech" under the Act, the communication must be made in a context where it is likely to foment (incite) detestation or vilification of the individual or group on those prohibited grounds. The definition focuses on both the content expressing extreme detestation/vilification, as well as the likely consequences of fomenting hatred against the targeted group.”
You can bet criticisms of Trudeau or his government will be hate speech.
Canada and Trudeau go full Orwell behind anti-speech bill: Fear the Maple Curtain
By Post Editorial Board
When it comes to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s Orwellian Online Harms Act, tech titan Elon Musk gets it: “This sounds insane.”
Insane is putting it mildly; look at some of the law’s provisions.
Rewarding people who snitch on their “hateful” neighbors up to $20,000 and making the thought criminals pay up to $50,000. It allows individuals to file complaints about online hate speech to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which can then order remedies like taking down posts or paying damages up to $50,000 if the speech meets a high bar of expressing "detestation or vilification" towards a protected group. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/government-says-only-extreme-online-hate-speech-would-be-probed-by-human-rights-body-1.6797025
Allowing the possibility of a literal life sentence for online hate crimes, including speech.
Letting judges, based on snitch testimony, jail people for up to a year because someone thinks they might commit a hate crime.
The law would also empower the cops to comb through your old posts — including those made before the law even passed — and punish you.
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And if social-media companies or other platforms don’t take down your hate speech, they can be fined astronomical sums, up to 6% of gross global revenue.
In other words, the law is the end of online speech, period, and a giant step toward ending any public free speech anywhere in Canada.
Like so many other authoritarian policies, this one was brought into the daylight in the name of “safety.”
Justice Minister Arif Virani, ludicrously, has compared it to product regulations for toys.
No: Playing with your GI Joe wrong never landed anyone in prison.
But the “safetyism” doesn’t stop there.
In a bid to hide the ugly ideas at the heart of the bill with appeals to emotion, the Trudeau government is cruelly exploiting the deaths of actual teens as cover — the tragic suicides of kids caught up in sextortion schemes and victimized by bullies.
It’s unclear why all Canadians should be muzzled in order to punish a few psychopaths, of course.
But that was never the real purpose of the law, only the window dressing.
The real meaning can be found in Trudeau’s wholesale crackdown on any and all ideological opposition.
He froze the assets of Canadian citizens for supporting the trucker protests against his crazy and harmful COVID response.
The proposed new law is simply the next logical step in nakedly, directly outlawing criticism of him and his policies.
The left will try to bring this to the U.S. Plan to travel to Canada: Forget it, spend your money in the U.S.