Big Tech Sponsors Event With Canadian Pro-Censorship Justice Minister Advocating Online Censorship Canada's justice minister, Arif Virani, proposes speech-restrictive legislation at an event backed by corporate sponsorship from Meta and AWS.
German Intelligence Chief Advocates for Monitoring Speech and Thought
Thomas Haldenwang defends his efforts to police the "thought and speech patterns" of citizens, says even legal "expressions of opinion" may be targeted.
EXCERPT 01 But now DisinfoLab proposes to use "the structure already created by ICANN" against legitimate security threats, to police the internet for content that somebody decides to treat as "disinformation." It would require "minimal amount of diligence and cooperation" from registries, a blog post said, to accept ICANN-style reports and revoke a site's domain name.
EXCERPT 02 But, what authority would decide what's a "genuinely open-and-shut case"? DisinfoLab's idea: registries or registrars could "grant media trade associations 'trusted notifier' status."