Canada Considered Suing Citizens Over "False And Misleading" Social Media Posts

Canada Considered Suing Citizens Over "False And Misleading" Social Media Posts Authored by Cindy Harper via ReclaimTheNet.org, The Canadian government drew up a plan to take individual citizens to court over what they post online. That plan sat inside a 35-page internal memo from the Department of Industry, most of it blacked out before the public could see it. Blacklock's Reporter pried the document loose through an Access to Information request. Dated March 31 and titled "Misinformation And Disinformation Strategy," it belongs to the department run by Minister Melanie Joly, known as ISED. The memo weighs "legal action" against people who post what the government calls "false and misleading information" on Facebook,...

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