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Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet (pressprogress.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good.

Oh no. Not that. Please no.

<Tee hee!>

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[–] blargerer@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Gotta love Canadians that think they are ruled by American laws. Every Canadian should know slander and libel laws here are much more restrictive on speech.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

about as inspiring as Canadians that WANT to be ruled by American laws.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This seems to be the whole point of the Conservative Party these days. Wannabe US Republicans.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They may be shitty but they have a long way to go to be GQP shitty.

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 0 points 11 months ago

Agreed. It's creeping in but they're still just the party of rich people who want less taxes in large part.

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