Congress is trying to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills that would severely impact human rights, expand surveillance, and enable censorship on the internet. On July 20, we’re launching a week of action to get loud about our opposition to legislation like KOSA and EARN IT and demanding that Congress focus on passing badly needed comprehensive privacy legislation to actually protect us from the harms of big tech companies and data brokers, instead of pushing through misguided legislation before August congressional recess.
Canada has an ‘Online Harms’ bill, just like the UK (same name, kinda sus). Promises to be extra draconian.
"… platforms would have to inspect all content — including images posted and remarks made by anyone, domestic or foreign, including Canadian citizens, residents, refugees, and foreign students; confidential and privileged communications between lawyers and clients, and between physicians, psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals and their patients; journalists, academics and anyone else — to judge if it crosses an as-yet undefined ‘hurtful’ threshold or falls into any of the five targeted categories.
Accomplishing that would require encryption be broken …"
Signed: A Luddite
Thank you, I was hoping you’d explain what the Canadian equivalent was for me. I had no faith in my government NOT trying to be skeezy about it, but I didn’t want to look it up.
You’re the real MVP and I appreciate you bro.