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The bill is the first in a series of three bills intended to address online platforms and their influence in Canada, alongside a proposed "online harms" bill that will seek to address online hate speech. [23] On February 16, 2021, the bill completed its second reading and was referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC). [24]
The Online News Act (French: Loi sur les nouvelles en ligne), known commonly as Bill C-18, is a Canadian federal statute.Introduced in the 44th Canadian Parliament, passed by the Senate on June 15, 2023, and receiving royal assent on June 22, 2023, the act will implement a framework under which digital news intermediaries (including search engines and social networking services) that hold an ...
The Online Harms Act (French: Loi sur les préjudices en ligne), commonly known as Bill C-63 or the Online Harms Bill, is a bill introduced in the 44th Canadian Parliament. It was first introduced in 2021 by Justice Minister David Lametti during the second session of the 43rd Canadian Parliament as Bill C-36 , and died on the order paper when ...
But on the other side, some MPs – including a number of senior Tories – and free speech campaigners have warned the Bill could be used as a tool for online censorship, incentivising or even ...
One of the most famous ongoing censorship controversies in Canada has been the dispute between Canada Customs and LGBT retail bookstores such as Little Sister's in Vancouver and Glad Day in Toronto. Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Canada Customs frequently stopped material being shipped to the two stores on the grounds of "obscenity".
Trump made opposing online censorship a major issue in the presidential campaign — after he was banned from most mainstream social media websites after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in which his ...
Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; however, in practice the Charter permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limits censoring speech. Hate speech, obscenity, and defamation are common categories of restricted speech in Canada.
Bill C-63, known as the Online Harms Act, is aimed at targeting hate speech and looks to hold social media services accountable for reducing the amount of harmful content on their platforms.