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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Insanity!! Just a few key points:

“ And it isn’t just stuff you’ve posted after the new law comes into force you can get into trouble for – oh, no – but anything you’ve posted, ever, dating back to the dawn of the internet. In other words, it’s a gold-embossed invitation to offence archaeologists to do their worst, with the prospect of a $20,000 reward if they hit paydirt. The only way to protect yourself is to go through all your social media accounts and painstakingly delete anything remotely controversial you’ve ever said.”

The maximum penalty for a violation is not more than 8% of the gross global revenue of the person that is believed to have committed the violation or $25 million,

Furthermore, the bill increases the punishment for an offence in s. 318 (1), advocating genocide, to imprisonment for life. The current punishment is up to 5 years. The bill also increases the punishments for offences in s. 319 (public incitement of hatred, wilful promotion of hatred, wilful promotion of antisemitism) from up to 2 years to not more than 5 years.

the content doesn’t necessarily have to directly express vilification; it only needs to be assessed as “likely to” vilify someone by a human rights tribunal.

Truth is no defence, and the standard of proof that will apply to Section 13 is “balance of probabilities,” not “beyond reasonable doubt,” as exists in a criminal case. (With up to 70k fines )


7 posted on 04/27/2024 6:35:40 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

I suspect that this is in the works for the USA.

The wayback machine has multiple saves a day for my FR account.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.freerepublic.com/~epluribusunum/

My bet is they plan on using it to prosecute me (and other Free Republic account holders) after they steal the 2024 election.


13 posted on 04/27/2024 6:45:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: HollyB

Canadians of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s seemed so reasonable [except in Quebec].

Now they have totally lost their minds.


14 posted on 04/27/2024 6:46:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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