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After another attack targeting Muslims, critics demand promised online hate legislation

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that online hate likely contributed to the radicalization of the man accused of killing members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario, over the weekend. That’s prompted human rights advocates to criticize his government for failing to meet its promise to deliver legislation to address the problem.

“They were viciously and inexplicably run down deliberately and we don’t yet know all the causes or reasons,” Trudeau told the Progressive Governance Digital Summit. “There is probably an element of online incitation to violence or access to things that we have to think about.”

On Sunday, four people —

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anti-hate-legislation-online-london-attack-1.6059915?cmp=rss.

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