OTTAWA – Government officials say online hate speech would have to portray a group as “inherently violent” or “unhuman” to meet the threshold to be probed by a human-rights tribunal under a newly proposed law.
Justice officials briefed reporters today on the Criminal Code provisions in the government’s proposed bill to tackle online harms.
Those changes have come under harsh criticism from civil liberties groups and legal experts who are voicing concerns about the potential to chill free speech.
During the Section 13 Wars the CHRC visited my blog every day. Even Christmas.
