Potential new law

[Convair]

I wonder how many potential sovcits this proposed new law will create if people are arrested and charged under it?

https://thebfd.co.nz/2024/03/09/bill-to ... opponents/

[Burnaby49]

The subject of Bill C-63, relates to proposed changes to the Canadian Criminal Code. The header to the Bill describes its purpose as;

An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

You can read the Bill, as currently proposed, here;

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/4 ... st-reading

The Bill is very vague about what constitutes "internet child pornography" and has controversial provisions such as this which allows anyone to lodge a complaint with the government based on their own personal definition of child pornography.

(f) provides that persons in Canada may make a complaint to the Digital Safety Commission of Canada that content on a social media service in respect of which that Act applies is content that sexually victimizes a child or revictimizes a survivor or intimate content communicated without consent and authorizes the Commission to make orders requiring the operators of those services to make that content inaccessible to persons in Canada;

It also strays from it's purported purpose through provisions like this;

It also makes related amendments to other Acts.

Part 3 amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to provide that it is a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause to be communicated hate speech by means of the Internet or any other means of telecommunication in a context in which the hate speech is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination. It authorizes the Canadian Human Rights Commission to deal with complaints alleging that discriminatory practice and authorizes the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to inquire into such complaints and order remedies.

There is currently a lot of controversy over these, and other provisions of the proposed Bill however these are, at the moment, entirely political and therefore not an allowed topic on Quatloos.