The Canadian government, under the far-left extremist government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is looking to pass legislation called the Online Harms Act, which will make “harmful content” a criminal offense. Harmful content includes content that “foments hatred.”
Excerpt from www.fasken.com:
The Act targets seven types of online harms that it deems to be “harmful content”:
- intimate content communicated without consent;
- content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor;
- content that induces a child to harm themselves;
- content used to bully a child;
- content that foments hatred
- content that incites violence; and
- content that incites violent extremism or terrorism.
“Intimate content communicated without consent” means a visual recording where a person is nude, exposes sexual organs or particular regions, or is engaged in explicit sexual activity, where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, and the person does not consent to the recording being communicated. Such content also includes a visual recording that falsely presents a person in the above manners, including deepfakes, if it is reasonable to suspect that the person does not consent to the recording being communicated.
Notably, the Act does not define hate, but does clarify that content does not incite hatred solely because it “expresses disdain or dislike or it discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends”.
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