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CALGARY—New legislation just dropped. The long-awaited Bill-63, or the Online Harms Act, is the newest offering by the Liberals. And guess what? I don't hate it. As someone who is a consistent victim of online harms, including being targeted by white supremacists last summer, I—like other victims who have been harassed by hate mongers and incels—was anxious to see how this legislation would apply.
As noted by The Wire after Elon Musk bought the platform, “Twitter fired most of its trust and safety staff, the team responsible for keeping content that violates the company’s policies off the platform.” Academics have also found “the increase in hateful content began almost immediately after Musk’s takeover.” Currently, people can hurl racist and sexist insults to one another with impunity even though Twitter claims to have a hate-based conduct policy.
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