Episode 135: Co-Chair Emily Laidlaw on the Work of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety

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Episode 135: Co-Chair Emily Laidlaw on the Work of the Government's Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety
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Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez created an Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety earlier this year to help craft a potential legislative and policy response to online safety and harms issues. The panel recently concluded its work and though the media focused on a failure to achieve absolute consensus from a group that by design had different views, the reality is that common ground was found on several key issues. Emily Laidlaw, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law at the University of Calgary, served as co-chair of the expert group. She joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about how the panel functioned, where it found consensus, areas of disagreement, and what could come next for one of the thorniest Internet policy issues.

2 Comments

  1. Are we really excited about the government deciding what online content is deemed safe or not? Haven’t we seen several issues with that lately? Especially for people who differ in opinions and run businesses like dumpster renting

  2. I agree with Lance here that we already struggle with having “free speech” online when certain ideas are stated. There’s so much censorship for one side that we don’t need any more government interference for small businesses like Milwaukie refinishing

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