Juno News - November 13, 2021


Trudeau doubles down on tackling ＂online hate speech＂


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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

195.38226

Word count

598

Sentence count

35


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Justin Trudeau wants to get tough on hate speech online. But what exactly is hate speech, and why does it need to be regulated? And why is it so important that it be done in order to protect the public from online hate speech?

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00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau talking about getting tough on hate speech, getting tough on misinformation,
00:00:11.180 yet again discussing the issue once again at an international gathering. Sounds nice
00:00:17.580 at first. Who likes hate speech? Who likes misinformation? No one. Sounds rosy. Why can't
00:00:22.840 we all agree with it? Hold on a second. No, the devil is in the details, as a lot of non-partisan
00:00:28.000 experts have been warning. This is not the first time Justin Trudeau has been going on about this.
00:00:33.020 This has become something of an obsession for the liberals, obsessing over the idea that everywhere
00:00:38.180 we look in the online sphere, there's these awful things going on, and we've got to do more. We've
00:00:43.960 got to bring in new laws and new initiatives and funding for this and that to do away with all of
00:00:49.580 this. Action must happen. Something must be done. Prior to the most recent election, you had Justice
00:00:55.460 Minister David Lamedi talking about this stuff. You had former Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeau
00:01:00.440 talking about it, saying a lot of things that shocked a lot of people, saying that public servants
00:01:05.840 cannot be criticized, and we've got to put an end to all of that. What's going on there? And he was
00:01:10.400 putting forward legislation that you had a lot of non-partisan experts stepping forward and going,
00:01:15.440 this is internet censorship laws. We don't want this. And yet they were doing it all under the guise
00:01:20.380 of, oh, we've just got to clean up that mean stuff on that internet that nobody really supports,
00:01:24.360 of course, so we've got to do away with it. You know, there's an old joke out there. What's hate
00:01:28.820 speech? Well, that's speech I hate. You know, if there's something that you dislike, there's something
00:01:33.820 that, well, you hate, you can say, well, that's hate speech, so, you know, let's do away with it.
00:01:37.800 Let's regulate it away. Uh-oh. That's a slippery slope. Now, you might say, Fury, what's the big deal?
00:01:44.020 Because there's going to be tightly defined legal parameters, technical parameters, defining
00:01:48.500 exactly what can and can't be written or said or what have you, so they'll figure it out. They'll
00:01:53.920 sort it all out. Well, we've actually been doing that in Canada over the decades, and there's been
00:01:58.040 very rigorous conversations about all of that, and there actually already are things that you cannot
00:02:03.380 actually say, or at least if you say them, be prepared to suffer the legal consequences. For
00:02:08.980 instance, you cannot make serious threats to people, and people are regularly charged for this sort of
00:02:15.080 stuff. They go through the legal system because they've made these threats. You can't libel someone.
00:02:19.260 You can't defame someone. If that has happened to you, you have legal recourse, and again, people have
00:02:24.700 faced legal repercussions for this, or if there's stuff online that is defaming them, there's orders
00:02:29.780 for it to be taken down, and so on. So, there's already a legal framework around this. What exactly
00:02:35.180 has so seized the liberals that they must obsess over this issue? People are saying mean things on the
00:02:40.840 internet that we don't like, and more must be done. Well, you've got to say what are the details,
00:02:46.760 because the devil can be in the details on these things, and as we saw with Stephen Guilbault's
00:02:50.940 legislation there, lots of concerns that it did not pass the smell test. So, there you go. The liberals
00:02:57.220 are at it again, and you've got to be very cautious, and you've got to say what exactly is in the fine print.