We are close behind.
Look how Bill C-63, also called the
Online Harms Act can be manipulated by the government. Same in the UK.
A year or two ago, I definitely sounded like a crazy conspiracy theorist when I was going on an angry rant about how the WEF & it's members can't spontaneously combust soon enough for my liking.
And in one of those rants I tried to point out that it
IS NOT A COINCIDENCE that multiple western countries are introducing the same kinds of legislation, addressing the same 'issues', and are even calling it the same thing, all around the same time...
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There is nothing 'conspiracy theory' about it.
Australia, Canada, and the UK are all bringing about online censorship legislation, and all are calling their respective versions the Online Harms Act = Fact
They were also all rolled out around the same time period = Fact
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We look at what's happening in the UK right now, and that is a country that has been utterly betrayed by their own elected leaders and their justice institutions.
We look at people being sentenced to YEARS of incarceration for social media posts - and many of those posts were simply sharing their opinion, or reposting what was already online.
We see their parliament basically calling for Elon Musk's head on a platter, or labelling Tommy Robinson as a terrorist...and think that's too stupid and absurd to ever happen here!
But I'm sure a lot of Brits felt the same way a year or two ago. It caught their population by surprise, and they've slowly learned the hard way that their elected officials & institutions have targeted
them, and not the people who are there illegally and are committing actual crimes...
Right now, I think Canadians are having a hard time imagining something so stupid being forced upon the general population. I certainly struggle to envision whats in the legislation as becoming reality, much less take it seriously.
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"It's absurd. It can't happen here! We have the Charter! Etc"
And yet, our government drafted up similar legislation in secret - then pushed it through using their NDP puppet to do so.
Are we the Brits but just don't know it yet??