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   On 6/15/2024 2:51 PM, Alan wrote:   
   > There's nothing to deal with.   
      
      
      
      
   https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2024/03/22/free-speech-   
   s-under-such-threat-in-canada-it-would-make-orwell-blush/   
      
   Shockingly, the Canadian government is pushing new legislation that   
   would, among other abominations, allow you to be arrested if a judge is   
   convinced you are about to say something that is considered unlawful.   
      
   That’s right: You don’t have to say it to be arrested, just the   
   suspicion that you might. Canada is about to make a reality of what   
   George Orwell labeled “thoughtcrime” in his dystopian novel 1984.   
      
   Cuba, North Korea and other tyrannies are applauding.   
      
   https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawas-move-to-regulate-   
   ideo-posts-on-youtube-and-social-media-called-assault-on-free-speech   
      
   The Liberal-dominated House of Commons Heritage committee has cleared   
   the way for the federal government to regulate video content on internet   
   social media, such as YouTube, the same way it regulates national   
   broadcasting, under a new amendment made to a bill updating the   
   Broadcasting Act.   
      
   Critics denounced the move to give the country’s broadcast regulator the   
   ability to oversee user-generated content, and said it amounted to an   
   attack on the free expression of Canadians, particularly in light of   
   Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s recent plans to give Ottawa power   
   to order take-downs of online content it deems objectionable.   
      
   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/canada-online-   
   arms-act/678605/   
      
   In 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story   
   “The Minority Report,” the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us   
   the concept of “precrime,” describing a society where would-be criminals   
   were arrested before they could act. Now Canada is combining the   
   concepts in a work of dystopian nonfiction: A bill making its way   
   through Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate   
   speech and curtail people’s liberty in order to stop future crimes they   
   haven’t yet committed.   
      
   The Online Harms Act states that any person who advocates for or   
   promotes genocide is “liable to imprisonment for life.” It defines   
   lesser “hate crimes” as including online speech that is “likely to   
   foment detestation or vilification” on the basis of race, religion,   
   gender, or other protected categories. And if someone “fears” they may   
   become a victim of a hate crime, they can go before a judge, who may   
   summon the preemptively accused for a sort of precrime trial. If the   
   judge finds “reasonable grounds” for the fear, the defendant must enter   
   into “a recognizance.”   
      
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