I posted about antisemitic graffiti at a Toronto bus stop. What came next has left me thinking about the enormity of the challenge of dealing with online hate.
Dr. Geist, you were caught in a censorship dragnet with this one social media corp, censorship that big tech already has in place, to silence discussion of "controversial" topic that needs to be discussed. So, you cannot even communicate the issues of antisemitism. you are seeing in front of you. Do you not think Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has the potential to exponentially amplify this over all social media platforms? With financial penalties that could be employed against people for speaking out against antisemitism because big tech algorithms are set up to delete discussion, and if someone is offended by your opinions about antisemitism and their "group" finds your valid points showing reality about what you are seeing in front of your eyes "hateful". Or even govt corruption, independent voices exposing truth that govt and its political supporters do not like. This sort of dragnet can now be widened by various means to silence those questioning the govt and revealing actual truth of corruption, by shutting down discussion, if certain political party supporters want to target independent voices through tribunals using the mob to make complaints to shut any discussion down. The potential for real abuse of Bill C-63 to silence whomever the govt and its supporters, or their stakeholder "groups" do not like is huge. Have you considered this based on your recent experience?
Based on my experiences, I suggest that the vile antisemitic comments in your feed were made by psychopaths employed by CSIS who use 5th Generation Psychological Warfare tactics to suppress the voices of dissidents and whistle-blowers. I have been libeled online repeatedly by a CSIS honey-trap and vexatious litigant who was hired by my former employer, Canada Post.
Professor, Geist has been instrumental in exposing numerous Charter-violating bills making their way through Parliament providing much-needed resistance to the Canadian Government's alarming authoritarianism.
So sad Michael. Keep up with the fight . We’re with you.
Dr. Geist, you were caught in a censorship dragnet with this one social media corp, censorship that big tech already has in place, to silence discussion of "controversial" topic that needs to be discussed. So, you cannot even communicate the issues of antisemitism. you are seeing in front of you. Do you not think Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has the potential to exponentially amplify this over all social media platforms? With financial penalties that could be employed against people for speaking out against antisemitism because big tech algorithms are set up to delete discussion, and if someone is offended by your opinions about antisemitism and their "group" finds your valid points showing reality about what you are seeing in front of your eyes "hateful". Or even govt corruption, independent voices exposing truth that govt and its political supporters do not like. This sort of dragnet can now be widened by various means to silence those questioning the govt and revealing actual truth of corruption, by shutting down discussion, if certain political party supporters want to target independent voices through tribunals using the mob to make complaints to shut any discussion down. The potential for real abuse of Bill C-63 to silence whomever the govt and its supporters, or their stakeholder "groups" do not like is huge. Have you considered this based on your recent experience?
Based on my experiences, I suggest that the vile antisemitic comments in your feed were made by psychopaths employed by CSIS who use 5th Generation Psychological Warfare tactics to suppress the voices of dissidents and whistle-blowers. I have been libeled online repeatedly by a CSIS honey-trap and vexatious litigant who was hired by my former employer, Canada Post.
Professor, Geist has been instrumental in exposing numerous Charter-violating bills making their way through Parliament providing much-needed resistance to the Canadian Government's alarming authoritarianism.