Discussion · Government Orders
William Stevenson Conservative
“I want the member to say more about how this bill lacks an appeal process. Someone could be falsely accused of hate speech and have to go through a long process just to get back online.”
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her eloquent speech. There were a lot of things in there that people need to consider. I am wondering about the implementation of some of this. It seems to me that we would be relying a lot on this online safety commission to make and implement the rules. One thing that came to mind during her speech was false accusations. She mentioned the appeal process. Can she speak further about how she sees that as a problem that is currently absent from Bill C-34? If somebody does not like something and reports it as hate speech or something when really it is not, then a person would have to go through the whole process to get put back onto the platform. Could the hon. member elaborate a little on that?”
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for her eloquent speech. There were a lot of things in there that people need to consider. I am wondering about the implementation of some of this. It seems to me that we would be relying a lot on this online safety commission to make and implement the rules. One thing that came to mind during her speech was false accusations. She mentioned the appeal process. Can she speak further about how she sees that as a problem that is currently absent from Bill C-34? If somebody does not like something and reports it as hate speech or something when really it is not, then a person would have to go through the whole process to get put back onto the platform. Could the hon. member elaborate a little on that?