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Bill C-63 Unpacked: Making the Internet Safer for Kids
Bill C-63 requires social media platforms to minimize users’ risk of exposure to seven kinds of online harms, to responsibly design products likely used by children, and to immediately takedown two types of content: intimate images shared without consent, and child sexual abuse material.
In the third roundtable of our series on the Bill, we will discuss how these provisions make the internet safer for kids and where it falls short. Our panel will unpack the proposed duty to protect children, its alignment with international best practices, and the extent to which the Bill’s takedown measures and content-specific mandates ensure that children are protected when they’re online.
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Bill C-63 Unpacked: Criminal Code and Human Rights Act Hate Speech Amendments
Просмотров 5096 месяцев назад
Does Bill C-63 propose criminalizing thoughts? Life in prison for hate crimes? What is the value and risk of reintroducing hate speech to the remit of a human rights tribunal? What does hate speech even mean in law? “Those provisions” of the Online Harms Bill, which comprise approximately 10% of the bill, have generated most of the controversy. It is time to unpack them, dispel myths from reali...
Bill C-63 Unpacked: Expert Panel Members Weight In
Просмотров 3817 месяцев назад
The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy is pleased to present a virtual roundtable to discuss initial reactions to the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) by five members of the Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety to the Government of Canada. The panel will be hosted by Taylor Owen, Director of The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and Emily Laidlaw, Canada Research Chair in Cybers...
Digital Policy Rounds: Health Communications
Просмотров 154Год назад
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the essential role of communication in promoting public health. Public health officials, medical practitioners, health journalists, and civil society groups have shown impressive dedication and innovation in getting health messages to different communities. At the same time, during the pandemic we have seen huge quantities of false and deceptive information...
C-18 Testimony: Taylor Owen at CHPC
Просмотров 109Год назад
On Friday, November 4, Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications, Taylor Owen, testified before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on the topic of C-18. This bill is also known as the Online News Act and is presently being studied by the committee i
The Beatty Lecture presents a STUDENT CONVERSATION with Maria Ressa and Frances Haugen
Просмотров 275Год назад
Masters of Public Policy students of the Max Bell School at McGill University had an opportunity to engage with Maria Ressa and Frances Haugen. This discussion was moderated by Professor Taylor Owen.
2022 Annual Beaverbrook Lecture: Jameel Jaffer and Frances Haugen
Просмотров 205Год назад
The Supreme Court of the United States is set to consider the two cases involving Florida and Texas’s social media laws, signalling a hugely significant court battle in the United States about the questions of free speech and social media regulation. This court battle comes at a moment when democracies around the world grapple with similar issues. The 2022 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture will consid...
The Global Governance of Online Harms: on New Frameworks for Governing Online Nature of Online Harms
Просмотров 88Год назад
While governments, civil society and industry actors around the world are attempting to address a range of online hams, often through forms of national regulation, international governance coordination and innovation remain a challenge. This second panel will discuss ongoing and potentially innovative governance processes at a transnational or global level that can prevent and mitigate online h...
The Global Governance of Online Harms: on the Global Nature of Online Harms
Просмотров 90Год назад
The last few years have exposed significant political challenges and threats to democracy by way of our digital ecosystem. One core aspect of these challenges is the way in which digital platforms can be used to inflict significant harm against individuals and groups in society. This first panel will explore how online harms manifest as a global problem and what challenges they raise for their ...
The Global Governance of Online Harms: in Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Просмотров 118Год назад
The free flow of information is an integral part of the liberal international order. Architects of today’s open digital ecosystem hoped it would foster democracy and economic development globally. In recent years, the rise of various forms of online harm have cast doubt on this original belief. Mis- and disinformation, political polarization, the illiberal use of state and corporate power over ...
Roundtable on the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
Просмотров 4452 года назад
As part of its newly re-introduced overhaul of privacy legislation, the federal government has included a completely novel regime to regulate AI through the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA). AIDA marks the first such regulatory regime in Canada that expressly governs AI and there are many questions, concerns, and issues to be discussed as a result. To sift through the Act and provide...
Roundtable on the Online News Act (Bill C-18)
Просмотров 6132 года назад
Roundtable on the Online News Act (Bill C-18)
The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada
Просмотров 1592 года назад
The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada
Screen Time Podcast Trailer
Просмотров 272 года назад
Screen Time Podcast Trailer
“Discriminating Data” Book Discussion with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Просмотров 2982 года назад
“Discriminating Data” Book Discussion with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
Просмотров 2973 года назад
Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News
Coded Bias Q&A with Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya
Просмотров 1373 года назад
Coded Bias Q&A with Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya
2020 Beaverbrook Lectures Part II: Cory Doctorow
Просмотров 3073 года назад
2020 Beaverbrook Lectures Part II: Cory Doctorow
2020 Beaverbrook Lectures Part I: Shoshana Zuboff
Просмотров 3,4 тыс.3 года назад
2020 Beaverbrook Lectures Part I: Shoshana Zuboff
Introducing the Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy
Просмотров 3593 года назад
Introducing the Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy