From: Loran <loran@invalid.net>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Canada: Worst in the World
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:57:16 -0600
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Alan wrote:
> On 2024-06-14 12:17, AlleyCat wrote:
>>
>> 'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now
>> Last
>
> I can always tell when you're losing,
Like you have with your free speech rights:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2024/03/22/free-speech-is-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.
Thatâs right: You donât 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 âthoughtcrimeâ in his dystopian novel 1984.
Cuba, North Korea and other tyrannies are applauding.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawas-move-to-regulate-video-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 countryâs 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 Guilbeaultâs 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-harms-act/678605/
In 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story
âThe Minority Report,â the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us
the concept of âprecrime,â 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 peopleâs liberty in order to stop future crimes they
havenât yet committed.
The Online Harms Act states that any person who advocates for or
promotes genocide is âliable to imprisonment for life.â It defines
lesser âhate crimesâ as including online speech that is âlikely to
foment detestation or vilificationâ on the basis of race, religion,
gender, or other protected categories. And if someone âfearsâ 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 âreasonable groundsâ for the fear, the defendant must enter
into âa recognizance.â