>Prevent hate speech
>Prevent terrorism
The 3 horsemen of bad legislation all gathered here for this occasion.
Some highlights [1]:
- 12 months retention policy if "[provider has] reasonable grounds to believe that their Internet service is being or has been used to commit a child pornography offence" (why is such a long retention policy needed)?
- extrajudicial "requirement to provide information" ("add a requirement for persons who provide an internet service to provide, without a requirement for judicial authorization")
- Creates more bureaucracy for yet another useless bill ("Digital Safety Commissioner of Canada" + 3 boards)
& more which I can't be bothered to list. The "invitation to comment by email" seems bad faith. How can you come with such legislation if you care about what people think?
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful...
If one has valid criticism or journalistic comments & opinions, could one ignore or workaround these laws through use of self-hosted, possibly TOR hosted, federated social media platforms like Mastodon? Original posts could be shared to masses with major difficulty in tracking the source commentator to a real identity.
