Trudeau government's online safety bill faces backlash over Orwellian imprisonment and speech concerns
• Canadian law Bill C-63 aims to make social media safer but is facing backlash for perceived government overreach • Law would allow judges to imprison people for life for advocating genocide and issue fines/house arrest without concrete proof • Author Margaret Atwood criticized bill as “Orwellian” and enabling “revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime” • Conservative writer Stephen Moore called it the "most shocking...totalitarian, illiberal...legislation...in the Western world in decades" • Justice Minister Arif Virani introduced the bill supported by PM Trudeau's government as a concerned father, argues need to regulate "screens in children's faces"