Episode 126: Why Canada's Online Harms Consultation Was a Transparency and Policy Failure

April 25, 2022 00:17:17
Episode 126: Why Canada's Online Harms Consultation Was a Transparency and Policy Failure
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Episode 126: Why Canada's Online Harms Consultation Was a Transparency and Policy Failure

Apr 25 2022 | 00:17:17

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Show Notes

This week’s Law Bytes podcast departs from the typical approach as this past week was anything but typical. As readers of this blog will know, last week I obtained access to hundreds of previously secret submissions to the government’s online harms consultation. Those submissions cast the process in a new light. This week’s Law Bytes podcast explains why the online harms consultation was a transparency and policy failure, walking through what has happened, what we know now,  and how this fits within the broader Internet regulation agenda of the Canadian government.

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Show Notes:

Online Harms Consultation ATIP Results

Credits:

Canada 2020, Democracy in the Digital Age: Addressing Online Harms

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