Re: More on Canadia's Orwellian 'Online Harms Law'

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

This just gets nuttier and nuttier as well as more and more ominous for
anyone who is a mapleback. Effa's so worried about Trump's dictatorial
potential but Trump ain't got nothin' on Justin Trudeau's dictatorial
reality. He's actually managed to work in *both* pre-crime penalties
*and* ex-post facto law into the same bill. That's an achievement I
don't think even Stalin and Mao managed to accomplish:

    The C-63 legislation authorizes house arrest and
    electronic monitoring for a person considered likely
    to commit a future crime. If a judge believes there
    are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime,
    the as of yet innocent party can be sentenced to house
    arrest, complete with electronic monitoring, mandatory
    drug testing, and communication bans. Failure to
    cooperate nets you an additional year in jail.

    What is a hate crime? According to the Bill, it is a
    communication expressing 'detestation or vilification'.
    But, clarified the government, that is not the same as
    'disdain or dislike', or speech that 'discredits,
    humiliates, hurts, or offends'.

I expect to be deported to Canadia any day now for, er, detestation.

    Unfortunately the government didn't think to include a
    graduated scheme setting out the relative acceptability
    of the words offend, hurt, humiliate, discredit, dislike,
    disdain, detest, and vilify. Under Bill C-63, you can
    be put away FOR LIFE for a 'crime' whose legal existence
    hangs on the distinction between 'dislike' and 'detest'.

Good heavens, and I say that with both dislike and detest.

And if that's not fucking terrifying enough, as mentioned above, Trudeau
has also added a retroactive ex-post facto feature to the bill:

    Canada to Imprison Anyone Who Has EVER Posted 'Hate
    Speech' Online

    The Trudeau regime has introduced an Orwellian new aspect
    to C-63 (The Online Harms Bill), which will give police the
    power to retroactively search the internet for 'hate speech'
    violations and arrest offenders, even if the offense occurred
    BEFORE the law even existed.

Cool. I look forward to Canadia repealing Magna Carta too.

If you don't thank every day whatever higher power you believe in that
you live in a country whose founders not only gave us the Constitution
but anticipated shitbags like Justin Trudeau and preemptively blocked
them from being able to do bullshit like this, then you and I have no
common frame of reference.