Here is a recent example, from Canada - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lawyer-for-canadian-pastor-jailed-for-breaking-covid-rules-says-they-will-appeal-a-jud

Here is a recent example, from Canada - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lawyer-for-canadian-pastor-jailed-for-breaking-covid-rules-says-they-will-appeal-a-judges-shocking-final-ruling-limiting-his-free-speech/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lawyer-for-canadian-pastor... Or, more directly - the Mike Ward case, where a comedian was fined for telling a joke [0]. There are other examples from the Commonwealth countries. I am grateful that our current laws prevent things like ASBOs from the UK [1] from existing here. Further, by my reading, that "hate speech" law sounds very expansive. Just because the Canadian government isn't abusing that law the same way other countries are, doesn't mean it wouldn't be permitted under the letter of the law. The failure in "free speech" in the US isn't actually a failure in the law, but a failure in the marketplace, where unregulated tech / social monopolies have formed and there is no proper distributed platform that people use to interact. Otherwise, I actually think the free speech laws in the US would work - you don't counter misinformation with censorship, but with better information. This applies to "hateful" speech as well. [0] https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/comedian-mike-ward-seeks-permission-to-take-freedom-of-speech-case-to-the-supreme-court-1.4778825 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/comedian-mike-ward-seeks-... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour_order