>Protect children<p>>Prevent hate speech<p>>Prevent terrorism<p>The 3 horsemen of bad legislation all gathered here for this occasion.<p>Some highlights [1]:<p>- 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)?<p>- extrajudicial "requirement to provide information" ("add a requirement for persons who provide an internet service to provide, without a requirement for judicial authorization")<p>- Creates more bureaucracy for yet another useless bill ("Digital Safety Commissioner of Canada" + 3 boards)<p>& 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?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful-online-content/discussion-guide.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful...</a>
Please write to the address listed here if you are Canadian and are concerned <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful-online-content.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful...</a>
I notice these laws often only target mass-market social media platforms such as FB/IG/Twitter/TikTok/SnapChat/etc.<p>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.