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> Advocating murder of group X -> ban (even if you're quoting a religious text). An alarming number of social justice advocates have been equating words with v
by ankushnarula 9y ago
> Advocating murder of group X -> ban (even if you're quoting a religious text).
An alarming number of social justice advocates have been equating words with violence. Canadian Bill C-16 (now law) is particularly troubling because under the Ontario Human Rights Code it makes debate over gender neutral pronouns a punishable offense. It seems to me that the folks at YouTube are, necessarily, responding with the most "conservative" policies to avoid "controversy" (i.e. boycotts).
- rpenm 9y agoC-16 just adds gender identity to the list of identities you're already not permitted to discriminate or advocate violence against (race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, sex, disability). It does not prohibit debate over pronouns. Go read it: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-assent http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-as...
- ankushnarula 9y agoThat's true - but the Canadian Dept of Justice indicated (and then removed the link from their website) that they would enforce it in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code. Go read it: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/code_grounds/gender_identity http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/code_grounds/gender_identity