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When it comes to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s Orwellian Online Harms Act, tech
titan Elon Musk gets it: “This sounds insane.”
Insane is putting it mildly; look at some of the law’s provisions.
* Rewarding people who snitch on their “hateful” neighbors up to $20,000 and
making the thought criminals pay up to $50,000.
* Allowing the possibility of a literal life sentence for online hate crimes,
including speech.
* Letting judges, based on snitch testimony, jail people for up to a year
because someone thinks they might commit a hate crime.
The law would also empower the cops to comb through your old posts — including
those made before the law even passed — and punish you.
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speech, they can be fined astronomical sums, up to 6% of gross global revenue.
In other words, the law is the end of online speech, period, and a giant step
toward ending any public free speech anywhere in Canada.
Like so many other authoritarian policies, this one was brought into the
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Justice Minister Arif Virani, ludicrously, has compared it to product
regulations for toys.
No: Playing with your GI Joe wrong never landed anyone in prison.
But the “safetyism” doesn’t stop there.
In a bid to hide the ugly ideas at the heart of the bill with appeals to
emotion, the Trudeau government is cruelly exploiting the deaths of actual teens
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victimized by bullies.
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ideological opposition.
He froze the assets of Canadian citizens for supporting the trucker protests
against his crazy and harmful COVID response.
The proposed new law is simply the next logical step in nakedly, directly
outlawing criticism of him and his policies.
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own Constitution.
If it passes, a Maple Curtain will descend and stretch across our northern
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