Why answers to hateful content online are hiding in platforms’ own rules

Michael Geist: The reality is that no legislation can fully address online harms. But holding platforms to their own commitments offers what years of debates have failed to produce: A way to address harmful but lawful content while limiting government intrusion into speech regulation. The platforms have told Canadians, in their own published rules, that this content has no place on their services. The government should use the digital safety bill to make sure they keep their word…