Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To “Protect” People From “Misinformation”
by Didi Rankovich | Reclaim The Net
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week complained that governments have allegedly been left without the necessary tools to “protect people from misinformation.”
This “dire” warning came as part of Trudeau’s effort to have the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63)– one of the most controversial of its kind pieces of censorship legislation in Canada of late – pushed across the finish line in the country’s parliament.
C-63 has gained notoriety among civil rights and privacy advocates because of some of its provisions around “hate speech,” “hate propaganda,” and “hate crime.” Read Full Article >