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Should Laws Regulate Online Discourse?

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Should Laws Regulate Online Discourse?

Wael Hassan June 28, 2019

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Most Canadians woke up to news of the #RCMP #GRC launching a probe into hate speech by an Alt-Right group leader w

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ho is seeking national party status. The probe came after an Anti Hate group filed a report.

The news article was shared hundreds of times.

The RCMP probe is timely, because hate online is a virus that is attacking democratic society

While hate online is not new, fake news and hate online have the potential of impacting democracy.

At this moment, a dis-information article is one of the most shared. The post claims that more than 100K foreigners are registered to vote. That article has been shared more than 4 thousand times.

#fakenews article

Is dis-information online persistent?

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The answer is, it does fluctuate, however there is always a considerable amount of dis-information. The graph above shows how the volume of content indicating that illegals or foreigners are voting in Canada.

The bad news, currently there is no legal mechanism, to address this kind of discourse.

What do you think?

Tell us your opinion – here or through a twitter poll.

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