Internet Police
Internet Police is coming soon and likely followed by Thought Police (The UK and EU are leading the way with Internet Police etc.,)
In this example, Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act) in its first reading of the Canadian Federal Parliament, a lockstep copycat of the UK's Online Safety Act (2023) and EU's Digital Services Act (2022), seeks to criminalize online content and create a new branch of government for administration and enforcement.
This Bill on the surface seeks to protect children from online sexual exploitation (though government authorities turned the other way from Epstein...) Obviously, protecting children online is a worthy, long overdue endeavour.
However, beneath the surface, the government authorities will amend the Criminal Code in order to criminalize persons and internet operators for content deemed hateful, incites violence, and/or incites violent extremism or terrorism.
In addition, the Canadian Human Rights Commission will be empowered to deal with online hate and discrimination and public complaints about such content.
The fines for persons and operators are extreme such as 3% of a person's gross global revenue or a maximum of $10 million dollars.
What will be next in terms of criminalizing online content?
The hypocrisy needs to be commented on: the very governments that are administrating and enforcing the criminalization of Internet users and providers are engaged the most extreme acts of hatred and violence.
As an example, the Government of Canada has been since at least 2015 training, arming, and funding neo-Nazis forces in Ukraine, refused to extradite a Ukrainian Nazi SS member for crimes of mass murder (and even gave him a standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament), engages in Russianphobia, continues in complicity to support the murder of Palestinian civilians through cut funding to UNRWA (now apparently funding resumed), allowed Canadian military companies to provide millions in lethal weaponry to Israel, abstained in 2023 at the UN on a humanitarian truce), and is complicit in the slaughter of approximately 500,000 Ukrainian men (canon fodder in the Proxy War).
More details on C-63:
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