Don’t use post-9/11 vocab in future online regulations

The securitization of Muslims, who are enduring online hate and mass murder, is made possible by a vocabulary that helps conflate community or individual advocacy with extremism.

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is pictured in the West Block on Nov. 8, 2021. The federal government recently presented community groups with legal frameworks for possible future online regulations, but Ottawa can’t risk worsening a pattern in the name of national security, particularly in a time when the Emergencies Act has been invoked, writes Steven Zhou. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEVEN ZHOU

February 23, 2022

One constant and jarring example of someone who was taking part in the Ottawa convoy with a history of hate is Pat King, whose 200,000-plus Facebook followers helped turn the convoy into a national item. King did a livestream in 2019 where he said the elec...

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