Trudeau gov’t considers regulating ‘political’ and ‘private’ communications
Allowing so-called disinformation online ‘erodes the foundations of democracy,’ according to government advisers.
(LifeSiteNews) — Furthering their censorship goals, advisers for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government now say “misleading political communications” needs to be regulated.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, advisers to Trudeau’s Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, the minister behind internet censorship bill C-11, included among the proposed regulations “private messaging services.”
“A range of harmful content was said to be important to scope in including fraud, cyberbullying, mass sharing of traumatic incidents, defamatory content, propaganda, false advertising and misleading political communications,” wrote Rodriguez’s staff, quoting members of the “Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety” convened by the minister in March.
“Many experts voiced concern over misinformation and disinformation and highlighted it was not included,” they added.
Rodriguez’s staff also stated that the advisers “stressed that Canadians’ ability to have conversations about basic policy disagreements has been severely impacted and complicated by the phenomenon of disinformation,” and allowing so-called disinformation to continue “erodes the foundations of democracy, polarizes people and reduces social dialogue to confrontational encounters.”