Josh Dehaas/National Post: The government can only limit expression if the limit is demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. Some of the limits proposed in C-34 easily pass this test, including requiring social media companies to take down intimate images communicated without consent or child abuse images, and blocking AI from telling its users to commit crimes or to engage in self-harm.
But the “duty to act responsibly” also includes much more subjective speech like content that “foments hatred.” Plenty of content that one person (or AI chatbot) may believe is “hatred” is another person’s reasoned argument. It must not be censored…