Heritage Department restarting consultations on online harms bill

CBC, Actualités Raffy Boudjikanian ·
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-heritage-pablo-rodriguez-1.6514081

07/09/2022

Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is set to restart countrywide consultations Friday on the government’s proposed online harms legislation after a group of experts convened by his department disagreed on the best path forward.

Over the course of a 10-page summary report, released Friday along with the announcement, it was revealed the 12 academics Ottawa gathered earlier this spring could not come to a consensus on whether software companies should be forced to proactively monitor or remove harmful content, whether private messages should be included in the legislation, and how to define « harm » itself.

« Some experts argued that legislation should move away from an approach that identifies specific types of harmful content. Instead, they argued that harm could be defined in a broader way, such as harm to a specific segment of the population, like children, seniors, or minority groups, » the report, which did not attribute any of the opinions to specific experts, explained.

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