Loading ...Liberals’ Plan to Curb ‘Internet Harms’ Puts Free Speech at Risk: Expert
The Liberal government’s upcoming legislation to address “online harms” could undermine Canadians’ freedom of speech and render diasporas from authoritarian countries more vulnerable, says the director of an internet security advocacy group.
“…its proposal to introduce new legislative and regulatory frameworks for social media platforms that aim to address five categories of “harmful content” online: hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, child sexual exploitation, and non-consensual sharing of intimate images.
The Liberal Party’s platform for the 2021 federal election promised to introduce the legislation within the first 100 days if re-elected.
“I have a number of concerns, but the primary one is that it will lead to over-censorship of content on the internet,”
Over-censorship! We don’t mind censorship, but we don’t like over-censorship. We also don’t like under-censorship. We like just the right amount of censorship. Canada is pink on all the maps because we’re embarrassed.
Restrictions on freedom of speech are contrary to a free and democratic society and opposed to it. “An informed voter is the sword of democracy”.