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The terms of Canada's renewed Official Secrets Act causes fears in Canadian media in which they may not be free to report on abuses in the national security sphere because they could be prosecuted. The Canadian attitude to criminalizing speech associated with terrorism has so far been somewhat careful.
Video series is banned in Nova Scotia. [19] 1992 Dead Alive: U.S. unrated version banned in Ontario, however the heavily cut U.S. R-rated version was approved with a Restricted rating. [39] 1992 Tokyo Decadence: Briefly banned in Ontario in early 1994. The distributor appealed and the censor allowed the film to play only in "select venues". [40 ...
Hate speech laws in Canada include provisions in the federal Criminal Code, as well as statutory provisions relating to hate publications in three provinces and one territory. The Criminal Code creates criminal offences with respect to different aspects of hate propaganda, although without defining the term "hatred".
Banned under the censorship act of 1981 because it criticized exploitation of women by men. [119] 1981 Ghaire aze Khoudo Hitch Kass Naboud: Banned under the censorship act of 1981 because it depicts a lesbian relationship and a controversy. [119] 1996 Gabbeh: Banned for being "subversive". [221] 1996 Nūn o goldūn (A Moment of Innocence)
The Supreme Court may find that when social media platforms restrict, fact-check, take down or leave up content, this is constitutionally protected speech and the government cannot interfere ...
This preamble states Canada's constitution would be based upon Britain's, and Britain had limited free speech in 1867. Furthermore, free speech is considered to be necessary for a parliamentary government to function. [16] Free speech was later included in the Canadian Bill of Rights.
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.