> but there might also be reasonable content that your platform could still risk a legal battle over
Yah that's totally fair, and like Michael Geist was quoted in the article as saying, the devil is in the details of this bill. I don't know what the letter of the law is here.
> What if -- say, it's early 2020 -- and someone writes a post arguing that Health Canada's official advice about masks is incorrect?
I understand where you are coming from, but I am personally (can't speak for the team) not worried about the legal liability here. If the law simply requires that platforms enforce the current letter of the law re: speech, then we will be just fine. I'll concede again that the devil is in the details of the legislation. If it's a bad law, bad things will happen.
Furthermore, there's usually carve outs for not-huge organisations (this is true of the link tax as well).
FWIW, we've already deleted or limited posts that have been COVID-denialism related when they are disruptive and/or harmful.
(that's why I chose a specific example of when Health Canada was in the wrong, and they later turned around and admitted masks do protect people, which was already clear to many people early on).
Carve-outs for small organizations would be great here, though!
Yah that's totally fair, and like Michael Geist was quoted in the article as saying, the devil is in the details of this bill. I don't know what the letter of the law is here.
> What if -- say, it's early 2020 -- and someone writes a post arguing that Health Canada's official advice about masks is incorrect?
I understand where you are coming from, but I am personally (can't speak for the team) not worried about the legal liability here. If the law simply requires that platforms enforce the current letter of the law re: speech, then we will be just fine. I'll concede again that the devil is in the details of the legislation. If it's a bad law, bad things will happen.
Furthermore, there's usually carve outs for not-huge organisations (this is true of the link tax as well).
FWIW, we've already deleted or limited posts that have been COVID-denialism related when they are disruptive and/or harmful.