{"id":88021,"date":"2024-03-13T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88021"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:19:51","slug":"the-true-online-harms-are-coming-from-inside-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/03\/13\/the-true-online-harms-are-coming-from-inside-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The true “Online Harms” are coming from inside<\/em> the bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even the state media lapdog CBC<\/a> admits that the Trudeau government’s proposed Online Harms Act<\/em> is an incredibly authoritarian piece of legislation:<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Arif Virani is defending his government’s Online Harms Bill after celebrated Canadian writer Margaret Atwood shared views comparing the new legislation to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The award-winning author took to social media late last week to share an article from the British magazine The Spectator<\/em> titled, “Trudeau’s Orwellian online harms bill”. <\/p>\n

“If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet<\/em> all over again,” Atwood wrote on X, referring to letters once sent out by the King of France authorizing imprisonment without trial.<\/p>\n

The federal government introduced late last month its long-awaited Online Harms Bill, which proposes to police seven categories of harmful content online, including content used to bully a child, content that sexualizes children or victims of sexual violence, content that incites violence or terrorism, and hate speech.<\/p>\n

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As part of proposed amendments, “hate speech” would be defined based on Supreme Court of Canada decisions.<\/p>\n

“The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting!” Atwood wrote.<\/p>\n

In Orwell’s cautionary novel about a totalitarian society, thoughtcrime is the illegal act of disagreeing with the government’s political ideology in one’s unspoken thoughts.<\/p>\n

Atwood famously tackled authoritarian regimes in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale<\/em>, in which a religious patriarchal society forces women to bear children and those who speak freely are severely punished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even the state media lapdog CBC admits that the Trudeau government’s proposed Online Harms Act is an incredibly authoritarian piece of legislation: Justice Minister Arif Virani is defending his government’s Online Harms Bill after celebrated Canadian writer Margaret Atwood shared views comparing the new legislation to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The award-winning author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,9,10,28,53],"tags":[459,186,354,58,887,593,417],"class_list":["post-88021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-georgeorwell","tag-internet","tag-justintrudeau","tag-socialmedia","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mTH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88024,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88021\/revisions\/88024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}