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Will Trudeau be punished for his blackface pictures causing harm....
That wouldn't make sense, but even if that was not a joke, it would be out of scope. The legislation is likely to focus on requiring platforms to moderate content more strongly; plus maybe penalties for cyberbullying, deepfakes and such.
Being insensitive online is unlikely to ever become a crime, let alone something that can prosecuted retroactively.
There's a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you're right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won't ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now "use"/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
All your examples indicate that if anything, having an actual black face is riskier than doing blackface in the long term.
Only if churches stop portaying Jesus as a white man. π
You can blame a certain emperor for making everyone paint his son as Jesus.
Cool - but why do churches keep painting Jesus white.
You used ellipses instead of a question mark. Will you be held accountable for the harm you've inflicted?
If he makes new ones in the future that would be possible if they could be shown to cause harm, but you don't actually get to retroactively charge somebody for something over a decade ago that wasn't a crime then.
Speaking of over a decade ago, maybe you should move on eh?
Apply that to other politicians. Move on. Heh.
It's not about the politician, it's about the pulling out crap that happened decades ago before he even was one.
Seriously, get a new schtick, it's not like there's a leak is current issues to pissed at JT (or as you say, other politicians) about.