Richard Warman used to sue neo-nazis he found online in front of the Human Rights Commission. He used an obscure provision called Section 13, which was repealed in 2014.
But it may be coming back.
The long-awaited Online Harms Act includes a section allowing users to sue each other for hate speech online. Free speech advocates are worried, but some say it’s time trolls start behaving.
Who gets to decide what’s hate speech? Is this the end of online hate or the start of something more sinister? To find out, Mattea Roach asked Emily Laidlaw, a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, and Richard Moon, a law professor at the University of Windsor.
Host: Mattea Roach
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator) Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Guests: Richard Moon, Emily Laidlaw
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