Canada's proposed online censorship proposal may be the worst yet in a growing pile of bad regimes. The potential harms are vast, especially since much of the details are left open to government and regulatory interpretation. 1/ eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
@EFF Canadian platforms could be forced to rely on automated filters to monitor all posts on their platforms for "harmful" content. Users caught up in these sweeps could end up on file with the local cops—or with Canada’s national security agencies. 2/ eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
@EFF Private communications are excluded from the Canadian proposal, but that is cold comfort—the Canadian government will be able to follow the examples of other countries and declare that encrypted chat groups of various sizes are not ‘private.’ 3/ eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
@EFF For example, Canada's content monitoring obligations echo proposals in India that have been widely criticized by civil society, not to mention three UN Rapporteurs. 4/
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@EFF But it's not just Canadians who need to worry about this. Dangerous proposals in one country have a way of inspiring other nations' policymakers to follow suit. 5/
@EFF Just as Canada has tried to one-up the most heavily criticized elements of online censorship regimes from around the world, we can expect other countries to build on Canada's censorship package. 6/
@EFF he Canadian proposal is dangerous to internet speech, privacy, security, and online innovation. We are glad to see @cippic @mgeist @openmediaorg fighting to send this bad internet idea to the scrap heap. eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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