Former Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commissioner Timothy Denton has some very direct words for Canadians regarding our Liberal Government’s proposed Internet Censorship legislation.
Freedom of speech
Proposed hate speech rules go too far: B’nai Brith
A prominent human rights group is leveling some serious concerns over Canada’s proposed online hate speech legislation.
Penned by B’nai Brith Canada, a report entitled How Social Media Algorithms Fuel Hate Speech And Misinformation says the new rules are so far-reaching it would do a better job censoring fair and legitimate comment over actually battling online hate.
Washington Post: We Must Create Rules Banning Media Outlets from Treating Republicans As ‘Normal’
“You have to have new ground rules for the media. They have to stop treating Republicans like normal politicians. They are not normal politicians … This is a party that spends its entire time cooking up ridiculous culture memes and fanning violence and coming up with outright lies,” Rubin said during an interview with MSNBC.
Leftist-packed commission urges Biden to fight ‘disinformation,’ ‘conspiracy theories’
The Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder released a number of recommendations Monday, which included calling upon the Biden administration to have an “apolitical team” (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) develop a national strategy to tackle the issue. The group said that although the federal government has recognized the effects of false and misleading information “on public health, elections, businesses, technology, and continued campaigns on communities of color,” it has failed to create a strategy or put leadership on the problem.
Trudeau Pushing Ahead With Dangerous Agenda Of Restricting Free Expression
Existing laws already give the government the ability to confront hate both online & offline. Power-hungry politicians like Trudeau ignore that reality, in order to ‘justify’ restricting your right to speak freely.
CSIS sees ‘unprecedented’ increase in violent online rhetoric during COVID
Public health officials and politicians continue to be targeted by the anti-vaccine movement, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) told Global News that increasingly violent online rhetoric around the “arrest and execution of specific individuals” is a growing cause for concern.
Peter Menzies: Stop messing with free speech on the internet
When it comes to communications regulation, let’s be clear: the election did not give Justin Trudeau’s government a mandate to continue messing with free speech on the Internet.
OZ Thought Police
Armed police show up at a man’s house, in the dead of night, to ask him about his anti-lockdown Facebook posts six months ago. pic.twitter.com/BW8jIWqU5w
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) October 10, 2021
Biden Administration Caught Colluding to Silence America’s Parents. Mark Levin Has the Receipts.
“The federal government is using its power to silence and intimidate American citizens,” said conservative talk radio host and author Mark Levin, who released a bombshell letter on his program Thursday. “They’re trying to chill free speech.”
"They just say, “You’re a terrorist,” because when someone says you’re a terrorist, everything could be done against you. There is no definition, and I have a big problem with that.” @MohamedouOuld pic.twitter.com/ucVeoXUThn
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) October 8, 2021
Canadian government’s proposed online harms legislation threatens our human rights
The Canadian government is considering new rules to regulate how social media platforms moderate potentially harmful user-generated content. Already, the proposed legislation has been criticized by internet scholars — across the political spectrum — as some of the worst in the world.
As America Has Become More Secular, It Has Become Less Free
Why freedom in America is threatened as never before.
Here is something any honest person must acknowledge: As America has become more secular, it has become less free.
Individuals can differ as to whether these two facts are correlated, but no honest person can deny they are facts.
It seems to me indisputable that they are correlated. To deny this, one would have to argue that it is merely coincidental that free speech, the greatest of all freedoms, is more seriously threatened than at any time in American history while a smaller-than-ever percentage of Americans believe in God or regularly attend church.
Immigration Policy Brings Erosion Of Free Speech, Internet Censorship To Canada
Immigration is Canada’s most under-analyzed social policy. It’s justification being reduced by government and media to the most simplistic of rationalizations:
Immigration policy exists in response to an aging population. Add to this an aging workforce. Stop the press. An exaggeration this may be, but not one without a point. This specious approach has for decades served to cover-up a plethora of related implications.
Facebook is starting to share more about what it demotes in News Feed
The way that Facebook controls its News Feed is often controversial and largely opaque to the outside world.
Now the social network is attempting to shine more light on the content it suppresses but doesn’t remove entirely. On Thursday, Facebook published its “Content Distribution Guidelines” detailing the roughly three-dozen types of posts it demotes for various reasons in the News Feed, like clickbait and posts by repeat policy offenders. That process, which relies heavily on machine learning technology to automatically detect problematic content, effectively throttles the reach of offending posts and comments without the author knowing.