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Comment by kmeisthax

This isn't C-18, this is way worse.

The context is that there's a Canadian Sikh who has been calling for parts of India to secede from India. In response, India had him assassinated.

India has laws on the books that allow them to remove content globally for things that violate Indian law. They enforce this on social media companies by requiring them to have employees on the country's soil in order to take them hostage.

C-18 just says you can't post links on Facebook without news companies getting a cut of ad revenue. India wants all discussion of their assassination of a Canadian citizen to be censored, and they're currently getting that censorship.

parent kmeisthax 3 years ago

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