A Reminder That the Online Harms Proposal is Still Waiting in the Wings

With Bill C-11 and Bill C-18 passed and the damaging effects beginning to be felt, the Online Harms proposal is still a threat.

We already have the expected results of the Online News Act (Bill C-18) which is the collapse of the news sector's presence on

https://www.freezenet.ca/a-reminder-that-the-online-harms-proposal-is-still-waiting-in-the-wings/

#Censorship #Canada #HateSpeech #OnlineHarms #website

UK Online Safety Bill Inching Closer to Passage

Controversial UK legislation known as the Online Safety Bill is moving closer to law. It is worrying digital rights advocates.

The UK is moving forward with a controversial piece of legislation known as the Online Safety Bill. Digital rights advocates have warned a

https://www.freezenet.ca/uk-online-safety-bill-inching-closer-to-passage/

#Censorship #Privacy #Security #encryption #freespeech #onlineharms #OnlineSafetyBill #UK

Canadian Government Cabinet Shuffle: Pascale St-Onge Replaces Pablo Rodriguez

The Canadian government had a major cabinet shuffle. For the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pablo Rodriguez is out and Pascale St-Onge is in.

The

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-cabinet-shuffle-pascale-st-onge-replaces-pablo-rodriguez/

#Censorship #Copyright #Technology #BillC11 #BillC18 #cabinetshuffle #Canada #DepartmentofcanadianHeritage #onlineharms #PabloRodriguez #PascaleSt-Onge

Canadian Government Attempted to Have News Article Deleted from Social Media

As the Canadian government attempts to exert more control over social media, the government attempted to delete a news article.

For the last couple of years, the Canadian government has been moving forwar

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-attempted-to-have-news-article-deleted-from-social-media/

#Censorship #BillC11 #Canada #government #misinformation #newsarticle #onlineharms #TorontoSun

Why Burning Down the Whole Internet to Stop Hate Speech is No Solution for Online Harms Proposal

If the Canadian government pushes the online harms proposal through unchanged, it would invariably cause more damage than it fixes.

There once was a village. In this village, there was a prob

https://www.freezenet.ca/why-burning-down-the-whole-internet-to-stop-hate-speech-is-no-solution-for-online-harms-proposal/

#Censorship #administrator #Canada #Internet #onlineharms #website

How Decentralized Social Media Can Thwart Canada’s Efforts to Regulate the Internet

ActivityPub, and the popularity of Mastadon could be a sign that Canada's efforts to regulate the internet with Bill's C-11 and C-18 may go down in flames.

Over the

https://www.freezenet.ca/how-decentralized-social-media-can-thwart-canadas-efforts-to-regulate-the-internet/

#Censorship #Copyright #Technology #ActivityPub #BillC11 #BillC18 #Canada #Mastodon #onlineharms #PeerTube #socialmedia

13 Civil Rights Organizations Share Their Red Lines for Canada’s Online Harms Proposal

If you thought Bill C-11 and Bill C-18 were bad, Canada's forthcoming online harms bill makes them look like minor inconveniences.

To be clear, Bill C-11 is a very dangerous bill that would effectively abolish

https://www.freezenet.ca/13-civil-rights-organizations-share-their-red-lines-for-canadas-online-harms-proposal/

#Censorship #Canada #Internet #onlineharms #OpenMedia #siteblocking

The Long Term Goals of Freezenet and How the Canadian Government Threatens Them

The Canadian government currently stands as the single biggest obstacle to Freezenet's growth, we explain how specifically.

Trying to build a website is by no means easy. In fact, it is, arguably, much mor

https://www.freezenet.ca/the-long-term-goals-of-freezenet-and-how-the-canadian-government-threatens-them/

#Censorship #Editorial #BillC-11 #BillC-18 #Canada #freespeech #Freezenet #onlineharms

ATIP: Government Filtered Out Opponents of Online Harms Proposal as “Non-Allies”

The "consultation" of Canada's online harms proposal is continuing to earn the title of being a fraudsultation.

The consultation surrounding Canada's online harms proposal has been a fraud from the very beginni

https://www.freezenet.ca/atip-government-filtered-out-opponents-of-online-harms-proposal-as-non-allies/

#Censorship #Canada #consultation #government #onlineharms #onlineharmsproposal

RT from Graham Smith (@cyberleagle)

How often must we say this? Speech is not a tripping hazard. Safety-related offline duties of care, concerned with risk of objective physical injury, are a terrible analogy for people’s subjective reactions to online speech. #OnlineHarms https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2024/pdf/