What’s not in government materials that really matters in Bill C-63? Huge power for Digital Safety Commission: levy penalties up to 6% of global revenues, inspection powers, potential to conduct secret hearings under some circumstances, establish regs and codes of conduct.
@mgeist Probably warrantless search and seizure like language police in Qc?
@mgeist This looks like a very bad bill. NDP will approve it though, which is horrific.
@mgeist You know women are going to get the worst of this. Imagine someone like Jessica Yaniv being able to spin up dozens of sketchy lawsuits with gag orders. Not to mention the Atheist community. Even ppl critical of some government policy. This is chilling.
@mgeist What? So we're back to the original Gestapo powers that were proposed in C-36 if not worse? Why wasn't this your take on it this morning prof Geist?
@mgeist 8% for operators, 6% for "persons". But then later they say no debtors prison, so bankruptcy I guess.
@mgeist I predict VPN use will explode and online only companies will move out of Canada.
@mgeist What is 'hate speech'? The term itself seems too ubiquitous and / or ambiguous. Everybody 'hates' something...clowns...cilantro...politicians. So how exactly will something be considered 'hate speech', to the point that they could be cancelled, fined, or incarcerated?
@mgeist Maybe not clear yet, but: are penalties only for failure to act on harmful material, or can they also be applied to improperly taking down non-harmful material? Because... the direction of incentives matters a lot.
@mgeist I know there are details to come, but how would enforcement work for services/websites that have no Canadian presence beyond being accessible via Canadian ISPs?