Announcing the government’s new online harms legislation on Monday, Justice Minister Arif Virani led with the realities the bill is supposed to address.
After introducing two women who spoke about their own experiences with child abuse and harassment, Virani said his bill would create three “overarching obligations” for major online platforms: “a duty to protect children, a duty to act responsibly and the duty to remove the most egregious content.”
Specifically, Virani said, C-63 “targets the worst of what we see online, content that sexually victimizes children or revictimizes survivors, intimate content shared without consent, content that incites violence, extremism or terrorism,
