{"id":81935,"date":"2023-05-06T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=81935"},"modified":"2023-05-05T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:35:19","slug":"the-federal-liberals-want-even-more-control-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/06\/the-federal-liberals-want-even-more-control-over-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The federal Liberals want even more<\/em> control over the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Wells<\/a> notes that a policy proposal at the Liberal conference this week indicates just how much the Liberal Party of Canada wants to control free expression on the internet:<\/p>\n

Here on the 2023 Liberal convention’s “Open Policy Process<\/a>” page are links to “Top 20 Resolutions” and “Fast-Tracked Resolutions”. The latter go straight to the plenary floor, the former go through a smaller preliminary debate and, if they pass, then on to the plenary. These things move fast<\/em> because, in most cases, Liberals are paying only listless attention to the discussions. Policy is for New Democrats. Well, I mean, it used to be.<\/p>\n

But sometimes words have meaning, so this morning I’m passing on one of the Top 20 Resolutions, from pages 12 and 13 of that book. This one comes to us from the British Columbia wing of the party.<\/p>\n

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It’s in two screenshots simply because it spreads across two pages. This is the entire resolution.<\/p>\n

BC Liberals want “on-line information services” held “accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms” by “the Government”. The Government would, in turn, “limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced”.<\/p>\n

This resolution has no meaning unless it means I would be required to clear my posts through the federal government, before publication, so the “traceability” of my sources could be verified. I don’t suppose this clearance process would take too much more time than getting a passport or a response to an access-to-information request. Probably only a few months, at first. Per article.<\/p>\n

After<\/em> publication, “the Government” would hold me accountable for the veracity of my material, presumably through some new mechanism beyond existing libel law.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what “the Government” \u2014 I’m tickled by the way it’s capitalized, like Big Brother \u2014 would have made of this post<\/a>, in which I quote an unnamed senior government official who was parked in front of reporters by “the Government” on the condition that he or she or they not be named<\/em>. But by the plain meaning of this resolution, I would not have to wonder for long because that post would have been passed or cleared by the Government’s censors before publication, and I’m out of recourse if that process simply took longer than I might like. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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