Canada plans to make it a crime to link to any website that promotes hatred.
Here?s what the Library of Parliament says about the bill on its website: ?Clause 5 of the bill provides that the offenses of public incitement of hatred and willful promotion of hatred may be committed by any means of communication and include making hate material available, by creating a hyperlink that directs web surfers to a website where hate material is posted, for example.?
For simply posting a link to a website that has material someone else deems hateful, you could go to jail for two years and be branded a criminal.
In addition the Canadian government will have the ability to have ISPs to collect and store personal data, so the police could collect names & addresses, without a warrant and possibly a whole lot more.
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