Canadian 'online harms' bill to make online hate punishable up to life in prison

nationalpost.com

23 points·pr337h4m··10 comments

Reality is now beyond parody. I don't even know what to say about this aggressive legislation of emotion... because it might be construed in the near future as hatred by someone in Canada, and I could be extradited to enjoy a very long holiday.

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Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513092

In that post and in those threads it seemed to only apply to owners of online platforms (like the EU digital markets act) and that was all that was discussed.

This thread is about a different aspect of the bill which is about regulating and punishing non-harmful word based "offenses" by human persons.

It is trope in legislation that is good and required to try to sneak in sections that are damaging and not required so both have to be passed. That seems to be the case here. It is good for this to be highlighted to potentially improve the bill.

It's still the same story and the 'life in prison' stuff sounds a lot like the whale sushi thing. It's just how HN dupery works, most stories don't get (or need) a second front page run just because someone is covering them from a different angle or as minor details dribble out. Additionally, proposed legislation is largely HN-offtopic anyway until it becomes actual legislation.

Can I encourage hatred of people who steal and sell children?

If not, then let me now state that I hate the authors of the bill.

If yes, then how does anyone know where the line is distinguishing what is and is not permitted?

Text of the bill: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-63/first-r...

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