Since it sounds like we're getting C-63 redux with the cynical addition of a loose under-16 ban, here's my assessment of the last proposed Online Harms Act, from June 2024.
#wontsomeonepleasethinkofthechildren
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Have those leading the charge not read Ewert v Canada? Or perhaps Parliament will amend correctional services legislation so that reliable evidence is no longer required for decisions affecting incarcerated folks. Admin justice, procedural fairness, substantive equality are all seemingly abandoned.
Haven't posted one of these in a while...
Number seven of my fave (mostly) indie (mostly) Canadian and Australian tunes from (roughly) the last 10 years.
Out of Toronto, from the incomparable Meg Remy (2018). This song's groove hits hard; its lyrics hit harder.
#best100 #MusicSky
2. On the public side, faced with governments that refuse to take adequate steps to regulate bad-actor online companies, a desperate desire to do something, anything.
A very interesting case with the potential to impact all search engines that provide AI summaries the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
It won’t work, it will leave the underlying attention-driven business model intact, but bans and duty of care are what’s left when you take effective action off the table from the very start.
Leaders are making the same mistake they made during Trump I: Mistaking a systemic sea change for a temporary crisis that’ll pass once Trump is gone.
This has always been the problem with tech exceptionalism, whether it involves generative AI or online shopping on Amazon: If long-established rules regarding accuracy, consumer protection and quality were applied online, many of these companies and services wouldn’t be allowed to exist.
The upcoming Canadian social media ban is evidence of two things:
1. On the government side, a years-long tendency to jump on the latest new idea, which itself is evidence of a lack of government capacity to do their own research.
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