Thread by @JuliusRuechel

Pay attention Canada, here it comes. Bill 36 is the bill that criminalizes wrongthink in Canada. And the police are all over it.

A few excerpts are in order to show you how grim this is about to get:
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westernstandardonline.com/2021/07/rcmp-a…

“In 🇨🇦we don’t have anything regulating speech,” said Statham. “Under Sec. 2 of our Charter Of Rights our freedom of expression is protected. So there is no such thing as free speech in Canada, only freedom of expression.”

AKA - freedom of expression is not freedom of speech
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Bill C-36 would define hatred as “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or disdain.”

I'm old enough to remember when crime was about actions, not words or emotions.
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"Bill C-36 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code threatens house arrest or $70,000 fines for any Internet publisher, blogger or social media user suspected of posting hateful content without incitement of any crime."

Suspected? Without incitement of a crime?
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Bill C-36 would make it “a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause to be communicated hate speech by means of the internet or other means of telecommunications..."

So, email and phone can be monitored too?

Remember enforcement requires monitoring.
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"Internet users suspected of vilification would be subject to house arrest “on reasonable grounds” regardless of whether a crime occurred."

👀

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They want to give govt control over your speech.

Govt officials love to claim they're being persecuted when they're being criticized.

It is never about hate speech. It's about speech the govt doesn't like. Political speech. Censorship.

Control.

This must be stopped.

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Another twist to add to this emerging horror story.

https://twitter.com/katewand/status/1418199515329347586?s=20