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The Online Harms Act, tabled Monday by the Liberal government, proposes changes to the Criminal Code and new regulatory bodies to protect children and adults from abuse online. Carol Todd, the mother of Amanda Todd, a B.C. teen who died by suicide after being sexually extorted, says if this legislation had been in place when her daughter was alive, 'it could have saved her life.'
The Liberal government plans to create a new digital safety regulator to compel social-media platforms to take action against online harms and remove damaging content including child sex-abuse material and intimate images shared without consent under penalty of millions of dollars in fines.
Justice Minister Arif Virani says the Online Harms Act won’t give the federal government the power to determine what content is and isn’t allowed online particularly when it comes to hateful content.
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