Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued for Calling People ‘Groomers’ on the Internet
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New court decision reinforces that there is no public interest in speech that exposes vulnerable groups to hate

Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good.

Oh no. Not that. Please no.

<Tee hee!>

  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Okay but the new law allows police to search your online messages and accounts without warrants. Warrants are intended to BE that balance.

    And I have little faith that the law will be struck down if it “goes too far”

    If we look to the south and their “patriot act” you’ll find that it went WAY too far and the abuses were RAMPANT. Yet to this day, it’s still around.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      It’s twenty-two years later and we still don’t have those laws here, so that is more of that fear mongering I am talking about.

      Can you send me a link about ‘the new law allows police to search your online messages and accounts without warrants’ because I haven’t heard of that and I usually keep myself pretty informed.

      • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        No no, the patriot act thing was about showing that “bad laws” can exist for a LONG time.

        I don’t have a link handy for it, I’ll try to look it up later for you.

          • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

            Yes, it’s not 100% accurate parallel, just the easiest one I could come up with.

            Sometimes bad laws exist for a long assed time and hurt a lot of people.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
              2·
              11 months ago

              But Canada has much different ways to deal with laws than the States.

              That’s why I don’t bring up Cambodia’s laws and law making when I’m talking about England, it would make as much sense as what you just did.

              • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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                11 months ago

                I think it still generally applies, and the American legal system and Canadian one have some similarities, though I’m not really qualified to say that. Seems needlessly pedantic, but if you want a Canadian example, how’s the residential schools? Women’s rights? According to Canadian law, women didn’t qualify as persons until 1929.

                There are plenty of Canadian examples of poor laws existing for far too long a timeframe.

                • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  I’m not quite sure how to read this comment of yours, are you saying the closure of residential school and women getting rights are examples of bad laws that have stuck around?