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Justice committee No, I think our standard is.... Again, I can't speak to the definition of “lethal” or the use of the word in the document specifically, but we talk about “credible threats” of violence.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I appreciate your feedback, but if you go to “Community Standards”, we talk there about “credible threats” of violence.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I know. I hear you. I think that actually comes to the core of what we're talking about in terms of a free and open Internet. I think historically, it's been the case that people should be able to express themselves and that they don't need to seek permission from some authorit
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee That's correct, yes.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I understand.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee That kind of content would be removed on Facebook regardless of where it is because it's a violation of our global community standards.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I think there are some requirements in the law.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee There are people in Germany who do content moderation.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I don't have that information on it.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee I'll try. If I may say, Mr. Chair, I just want to be very clear. What we're here to do is to talk about how we regulate online speech. I myself have been subject to criticism, I think unwarranted, especially after I have moved against hate figures and hate organizations. I can t
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee Yes, there is. You're right that there has been debate, we've heard that feedback about whether or not we should be surfacing the reporting function more readily. I'll give you a bit of colour. We've done some experiments on this where we're trying to understand what the righ
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee Yes, absolutely.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee There are some countries where we don't necessarily have people, but yes, we do have people operating in most countries.
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee It's actually not that small relative to other countries. Let me start by saying that in terms of law enforcement, we do have a law enforcement group that does liaise with law enforcement around the world. In those cases we have relationships whereby if there is something that l
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan
Justice committee Madam, I agree that's the challenge. That is really the hard question. That's why I think what we're saying is that we don't think it's appropriate for us to make that call. To the extent that governments or legislatures want to put a framework around speech online, we obviously
June 6th, 2019Committee meeting
Kevin Chan