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Disinformation / online harm

The sticker is ‘harm’ or ‘safety,’ not a protected class. Platforms become the police. Once a duty-of-care exists, any classification can be listed as a harm category without Congress or Parliament writing a listed-speech offence.

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Supported

UK Online Safety Act 2023 is live platform duty. EU DSA is live. Canada Bill C-63 died. Canada Bill C-34 (Safe Social Media Act) had first reading 10 June 2026 and is not law.

C-34 is not law. C-63 is not law. Do not speak as if a Canadian digital-safety commission exists.

Sector hop onto platforms. The most portable overlay.

Creep row

Classification by sector. Live means a quoted instrument. Architecture means the statute already covers the sector. Unproven means no pack.
OverlayCriminal speechDirect offenceEducationSchools / campusEmploymentWorkplace dutyPlatformsOSA / DSA / duty of careOther fundedHousing, health, transitImmigrationStatus barPolice recordingBelow-crime incidentsProgrammePrevent / exchanges
Disinformation / online harmNot this formUnprovenNot this formLive, citedUnprovenUnprovenNot this formUnproven
  • Live, cited
  • Documented hop
  • Architecture only
  • Pointed, not quoted
  • Not this form
  • Unproven

This is a pattern grid over cited instruments, not a completed worldwide fact. Hover a cell where a note exists. Open a sticker for the quoted clause.

  • Platforms · Live, cited

    UK OSA 2023 live. EU DSA live. CA C-34 first reading — not law. C-63 died. Platform duty is not a listed-speech offence. A live platforms cell is not capture.

Cited venues for this sticker

3 venues with a cited mark. Open a region, then a country. Unproven cells stay off this list. A dash is a cited finding that this form is not the quoted law.

  • Crime — criminal speech or hate offence, cited
  • Duty — institutional / funding / platform duty
  • Def. — working definition imported
  • Prog. — programme, not a statute
  • — not this form

Quoted clauses

Also in the matrix
Proposed — not lawSupportedCanadaDisinformation / online harm

first reading 10 June 2026; at second reading with no second-reading activity as of 2026-09-05

Bill C-34, Safe Social Media Act

Target
Operators of social media, AI chatbot, and other prescribed online services
Test
Would enact a Digital Safety Act and a Digital Safety Commission. Replacement track for dead Bill C-63. Not law.
Max
n/a — not law