The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 27, 2024


Liberals compare Canadians to 5-year-olds in censorship push


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

199.36916

Word count

1,222

Sentence count

69

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Justice Minister Arif Farhani has come out to literally compare Canadians to children in order to justify Bill C-63, the controversial online harm's bill that would put people under house arrest if someone complains that you might say something hateful online.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I don't know why I have to keep telling Liberal Party officials and ministers this, but don't talk down to Canadians like they're five years old. 0.85
00:00:07.920 People happen to hate that, especially when the person patronizing to them is deeply corrupt, arrogant, and incompetent.
00:00:16.240 But the Liberals don't like to actually learn good lessons, so Justice Minister Arif Farhani has come out to literally compare Canadians to children
00:00:24.880 in justifying the Liberals' Online Harms Act that would put people under house arrest if someone complains that you might say something hateful.
00:00:33.660 You haven't even committed a fake hate crime. You might commit a fake hate crime, and the Liberal government wants you to be put under house arrest
00:00:41.660 and in some cases put behind bars for life for something that was either already illegal that they're trying to justify the bill with
00:00:48.960 or they're just trying to invent new crimes based on a vague definition of hate.
00:00:53.100 And remember, this is an actual clip. Arif Farhani posted himself. Look, this is on his X account.
00:01:00.100 He was the one who posted this. Listen to this. It's insane that someone approved him going out and saying this because he's reading a script.
00:01:09.020 As a parent, one of the first things we teach all of our kids is how to cross the road.
00:01:15.120 So everyone, just letting you know, you're a five-year-old that Arif Farhani is trying to dictate how to cross the road to.
00:01:22.400 You're so stupid, Arif Farhani has to keep you safe on the internet because something hateful could happen.
00:01:28.880 So I won't cut him off too much, but just that opening line is insane.
00:01:32.040 As a parent, one of the first things we teach all of our kids is how to cross the road.
00:01:38.120 We tell them to wait for the green light. We tell them to look in both directions.
00:01:42.520 We trust our children. We also have faith that there are rules of the road and that the drivers will respect the rules of the road.
00:01:50.520 We trust that cars will stop at a red light and obey the speed limit.
00:01:53.900 Safety depends on a basic network of trust.
00:01:58.280 This is exactly what we are lacking desperately in the digital world.
00:02:02.280 The Online Harms Act establishes rules of the road for platforms so that we can teach our kids to be safe online with the knowledge that platforms are doing their part also.
00:02:12.220 I know he is trying to do this thing where, no, it's all about the actual kids at the end.
00:02:17.500 But in this metaphor he is drawing, or this simile, he is actively comparing Canadian people to five-year-olds, to Arif Farhani's own children.
00:02:27.420 That there's just not enough rules for the road to keep you, the young five-year-old, safe on the internet.
00:02:32.740 So the liberal government needs to come in and arrest people because they might say something hateful.
00:02:38.780 Hate being a term that the liberals do not actually want to define because if they defined it, they couldn't use the law arbitrarily to go after political opponents.
00:02:47.180 And this is the real motivation of Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act.
00:02:51.440 It's sneaking in this vague definition of hate so that the liberals can basically do whatever they want in terms of curbing free speech.
00:02:59.000 Because whatever you said could be defined as hatred or even discriminatory language, which is also outlawed by the bill.
00:03:06.780 And what that allows them to, because they haven't defined it, literally anything could be rolled into being hateful.
00:03:12.380 Because there's no objective definition to say, was this actually hateful, or is this just like a rude opinion, or is it just a correct opinion?
00:03:20.160 Because, mark my words, the liberals will go after people stating biological reality in order to put people behind bars.
00:03:27.960 They will find you saying that, you know, men and women exist and say that's discriminatory, could result in hate.
00:03:33.880 Now you have to stay in your house all year long and have the government bring you food.
00:03:38.240 This is what the liberals want to move towards.
00:03:40.700 And you could say, well, that seems hyperbolic.
00:03:42.580 They've never said that they want to do that.
00:03:44.700 Well, the law is set up in such a way that they can do that.
00:03:47.960 And the thing is that these people are smart and they know exactly what they're doing.
00:03:52.020 They know when they make a law with these vague definitions for hatred and they want to prosecute people for that, the vagueness was the thing that they wanted.
00:04:00.180 They want to be able to go after, like, conservative politicians, PPC-type people, conservative activists for saying something hateful so that you can't actually oppose them out in the public.
00:04:11.240 And the liberals know they're not going to be winning the next election.
00:04:14.100 What they want to do, and they know this bill is probably going to fail, the public hates it.
00:04:17.960 But by merely introducing a radical idea like this to the public, it kind of takes the shock away if they do it again in maybe 10 years when they're back in government.
00:04:27.140 I hope it's 20 years before the liberals are even close to winning an election.
00:04:31.100 But the mere act of proposing something this radical makes it a little bit less radical, especially in the progressive activists' mind.
00:04:39.360 This is why every once in a while you'll see something like the Alberta Board of Physicians or College of Physicians come out and say,
00:04:45.000 actually, you actually are forced to mandate or recommend MAID procedures for people.
00:04:50.700 You have to deliver them.
00:04:52.100 And then they'll pull back to the last segment saying, oh, sorry, yes, we will, I guess, respect the conscience rights of doctors.
00:04:57.660 But at the very least, they've made it so less people come out and oppose them next time.
00:05:01.980 Because who wants to come out every single year to oppose the College of Physicians on the same issue?
00:05:06.460 Eventually, people just wash their hands of it, and they want to live their own lives.
00:05:10.040 That's what the liberals are doing.
00:05:11.460 They want you to get used to the idea of hate speech laws.
00:05:14.820 And so that when they come back in 20 years, there's not going to be as much hoopla about the liberals prosecuting people for rude words they don't like.
00:05:23.140 Anyways, that's it for me today.
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00:06:04.700 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:06:07.120 Have a good one.