Die Koalition fordert die Liberalen auf, das Gesetz zu Hassverbrechen fallenzulassen, und sagt, es kriminalisiere Proteste
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/coalition-calls-on-liberals-to-drop-hate-crime-bill-says-it-criminalizes-protest/
Die Koalition fordert die Liberalen auf, das Gesetz zu Hassverbrechen fallenzulassen, und sagt, es kriminalisiere Proteste
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/coalition-calls-on-liberals-to-drop-hate-crime-bill-says-it-criminalizes-protest/
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This is an odd article, because I am left unclear on what it is about the bill that the coalition takes issue with. The author mentions this:
>Among other measures, the bill would create new crimes of obstruction and intimidation aimed at protecting places of worship and institutions used by an identifiable group.
But, *somewhat suspiciously*, does not attribute this as being one of the concerns that the coalition has raised.
This is a direct consequence of social contracts breaking down – once protests start repeatedly interfering with other people’s constitutional rights to attend their places of worship, then unfortunately the government needs to step in and define limits to rights.
This bill is just a natural consequence for the kinds of protests that we saw the last couple of years.
Can those places of worship stop hosting events directly benefiting the IDF and illegal occupation of Palestinian west bank, that’d be great.
We need to stop trying to police speech broadly. As we see with the online age verification laws and the slow creep towards authoritarianism, the government will always reach for more and more power and control over the population and the more we give up, the less power we have to push back against the government.
Everybody is fine with banning genuine hate speech, then a bunch of people are fine with banning mean speech, then a smaller number of people are fine with banning speech that *can be interpreted as mean*, then nobody is fine with banning speech that is critical of the government but we’ve already given away so much of our freedom that we can’t really speak out because it’s “mean”.
You might think you benefit from the government protecting you from having your feelings hurt but you’re allowing the Overton window of acceptable censorship to continue marching further and further forward.
I’m what they used to call a normie lib, in the time when Biden was president down south. I’m not libertarian, I’m not conservative, I’m not a lefty. I like normal things like peace, justice, prosperity and the CBC. I’m not generally a guy who likes to protest. I like Carney.And yeah I’m a bit concerned about intrusions into my freedoms, I’ve seen how far it can go in the UK and the USA.