[jerod]

'Fake' news is apparently fine with the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, as long as it's news denying one the most documented and proven atrocities in human history.

[thesharkboy]

So free speech isn’t an inherent right to you?

[WKUHilltopper]

So is Canada going to arrest people who deny the existence of God too? And if not, why not??

[freedumb2003]

>>’Fake’ news is apparently fine with the Ontario Civil Liberties Association, as long as it’s news denying one the most documented and proven atrocities in human history.<<

You either have free speech or you don’t.

As bad as it has become here we have it..

Canada does not.

Nor does Europe.

[MeganC]

If the Holocaust is so well documented and proven then where’s the threat in someone challenging it?

I mean should it also be illegal to argue that the world is flat?

[Gay State Conservative]

Denying that the Holocaust occurred is beyond foolish,stupid and delusional for 100 different reasons..perhaps the most powerful one being all the photos,videos,eyewitness accounts from Americans,Brits,French as well as survivors themselves.Add the millions of Nazi Government documents that are available and you have a delusion of breathtaking scale.

But to criminalize claims that it didn't occur is going at least a bit too far,IMO.

[thoughtomator]

Once you accept the principle of jailing people for their political opinions it is only a matter of time before you yourself end up on the wrong end of it.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Free Speech. If someone wants to argue that the earth is flat, the moon is made of green cheese, the Holocaust didn't happen or the pope invented Islam, whatever.

Better to let the crazies say their piece than have them, and shortly thereafter all the rest of us, restricted to "approved thoughts" only.

[escapefromboston]

What’s next ? Locking up Flat Earthers ?

[Sam Gamgee]

Problem is Canada, under the human rights tribunals, have a penchant for shutting down freedom of speech. It is all done on the basis that there is some army of holocaust deniers out there that need to be put in their place.

If you truly believe in free speech, we should support even the right of a holocaust denier to have an opinion. Some dirty fat old man behind a key board is hardly a threat.