Years in the making, the federal government is poised to introduce a new piece of legislation on Monday aimed at addressing a series of online harms.

  • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    That wouldn’t make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.

    Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.

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      8 months ago

      There’s a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you’re right, on that point.

      Pretending that such things won’t ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing

      • miscarriage
      • some brain-wirings/genders
      • violating christofascist supremacism
      • not being a Trump-cult member

      as the next few years will demonstrate,

      is naive/incompetent.

      Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now “use”/abuse law.

      That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.

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        8 months ago

        All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.