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David Lametti, then the minister of justice, said the legislation was "designed to target the most egregious and clear forms of hate speech that can lead to discrimination and violence." "It is incredibly difficult to assess content at the margins when it comes to issues of terrorist propaganda and hate propaganda," she told CBC News. "That regime in 2021 would have incentivized over-removal of anything that had just even the whiff of political controversy."When the 2021 federal election was called, C-36 died without ever having gone to committee for debate.
Charters said that if this new legislation does not require reported content to be taken down within 24 hours, it should still require that companies identify harmful content and take it down when they can.We won't know the full details until the bill is introduced in the House of Commons this week. CBC News reported on Monday that the bill will include a new regulator, separate from the CRTC, to hold tech giants accountable for harmful content.