{"id":7541,"date":"2014-10-24T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:47:23","slug":"legislating-against-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=7541","title":{"rendered":"Legislating against hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Ottawa and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, an article in the National Post<\/a> reports the government considering new legislation that would make it an offence to condone terrorist acts online.<\/p>\n

Sources suggest the government is likely to bring in new hate speech legislation that would make it illegal to claim terrorist acts are justified online.
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\n… the new legislation was crafted before this week\u2019s events and is not \u201ctrauma tainted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A number of years ago, I had been active in exploring issues associated with policing illegal content on the internet. We have explored the technical capability as well as many of the policy and purely logistical issues associated with identifying and dealing with hate and illegal content on the internet.<\/p>\n

Recall, it was just over a year ago that this government repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act<\/a>, but at the time, we were told the government was committed to “buffing up the Criminal Code to ensure that [disadvantaged] groups would not be left open to hate speech.”<\/p>\n

Over the past 8 or 9 years, much information has been gathered about hate and illegal content on the internet. As such, I thought it might helpful to review what has been written on this blog as the issue may become prominent over the coming months.<\/p>\n

A partial bibliography of related blog posts can be found here:<\/p>\n