It seems rather problematic to try to counter the threats posed by Russian and China by emulating their behaviour
to some extent by the time it’s introduced) it would establish a “digital safety commissioner” to monitor “online communication service providers,” like Facebook and Twitter, for illegal content, such as terrorist propaganda, incitements to violence and hate speech.
Taken together, it’s easy to see how the government could use its newfound powers to censor social media posts and punish podcast and video streamers that host content the government deems to be propaganda. And maybe it would even be justified.
Like Russia’s censorship apparatus — which started as a way of blocking content related to harmful activities and quickly turned into a means of subverting internal dissent and preventing outside information— Canada could quickly find itself on a very slippery slope.
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