Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: More on Canadia's Orwellian 'Online Harms Law' Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 00:32:23 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 02:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3c7372280cf7962f8c9c0e3db266138e"; logging-data="3187029"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cEXvtS9IOVoAxYeW99/DOIz9XeQCM5aI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:UmSfAFFGehgsgPhZCTDQdsxwfz4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3505 BTR1701 wrote: >This just gets nuttier and nuttier as well as more and more ominous for >anyone who is a mapleback. Effa's so worried about Trump's dictatorial >potential but Trump ain't got nothin' on Justin Trudeau's dictatorial >reality. He's actually managed to work in *both* pre-crime penalties >*and* ex-post facto law into the same bill. That's an achievement I >don't think even Stalin and Mao managed to accomplish: > The C-63 legislation authorizes house arrest and > electronic monitoring for a person considered likely > to commit a future crime. If a judge believes there > are reasonable grounds to 'fear' a future hate crime, > the as of yet innocent party can be sentenced to house > arrest, complete with electronic monitoring, mandatory > drug testing, and communication bans. Failure to > cooperate nets you an additional year in jail. > What is a hate crime? According to the Bill, it is a > communication expressing 'detestation or vilification'. > But, clarified the government, that is not the same as > 'disdain or dislike', or speech that 'discredits, > humiliates, hurts, or offends'. I expect to be deported to Canadia any day now for, er, detestation. > Unfortunately the government didn't think to include a > graduated scheme setting out the relative acceptability > of the words offend, hurt, humiliate, discredit, dislike, > disdain, detest, and vilify. Under Bill C-63, you can > be put away FOR LIFE for a 'crime' whose legal existence > hangs on the distinction between 'dislike' and 'detest'. Good heavens, and I say that with both dislike and detest. >And if that's not fucking terrifying enough, as mentioned above, Trudeau >has also added a retroactive ex-post facto feature to the bill: > Canada to Imprison Anyone Who Has EVER Posted 'Hate > Speech' Online > The Trudeau regime has introduced an Orwellian new aspect > to C-63 (The Online Harms Bill), which will give police the > power to retroactively search the internet for 'hate speech' > violations and arrest offenders, even if the offense occurred > BEFORE the law even existed. Cool. I look forward to Canadia repealing Magna Carta too. >If you don't thank every day whatever higher power you believe in that >you live in a country whose founders not only gave us the Constitution >but anticipated shitbags like Justin Trudeau and preemptively blocked >them from being able to do bullshit like this, then you and I have no >common frame of reference.