In late February, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party introduced in the Canadian Parliament the long-awaited Online Harms Act, which provides the government with extensive and explicit authority to regulate “content that foments hatred.”
With the stated goal of “enabl[ing] persons in Canada to participate fully in public discourse and exercise their freedom of speech online without being hindered by harmful content,” the bill focuses on a standard of “detestation”—restricting expression if it generates “detestation or vilification” of people of
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