Fuck these pieces of shit and fuck every person who passively supports the slow fucking march to complete enslavement, again.

Find and email your MP here to voice your opinion.

Thanks for sharing! Email sent. That tool made it super easy.

For those of us not affected immediately by this, let's fire up some i2p, tor and simplex routers in order to contribute.

ip2

tor

As with tor, where you have the choice to run bridges if you are unable to contribute with a node/server that is vulnerable to identifying your person, simply installing i2p and letting it run is enough to contribute with bandwidth to the network, even if you're not using it yourself.

Edit: and for i2p, you don't even need a public IP, as opposed to tor bridges.

I'm not super plugged into Canadian politics. But for our friends to the north, I really hope this won't pass. Wasn't a similar bill voted down in the EU recently? Chat Control? So maybe there is hope for Canada too?

It seems like it's the same story everywhere.

Some gov: "We shall require identity verification! We shall require encryption backdoors!"

Randos: "Nah. We'll VPN around that shit."

Gov: "Holy shit! Randos are VPNing! We must ban VPN!"

Randos: "Holy shit! They're banning VPN! We better find ways to circumvent that!"

Gov: "Holy shit! Randos are circumventing our VPN ban! We better improve our VPN detection and blocking!"

Randos: "Holy shit! They're better at detecting VPN now... We better tunnel over HTTPS..."

Round and round. Unfortunately, once the pain gets too high, it CAN be effective. Some countries went very far down this road already. It isn't like 100.0000% effective. But it doesn't have to be. Raise the tech bar enough. Make the legal risks too great. Eventually most ppl will give in. A handful will be super determined. But most won't.

Holy shit, this is worse than Chat Control (that required "only" on-device OS equivalent of MS Recall)

With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.

I don't think this analogy sells just how bad this is. Building a backdoor means fundamentally weakening the encryption. Instead of having an extra key it's more like building a lock with a concealed button that lets you completely bypass it and open the door, and then just hoping nobody finds it besides the 'right' people (i.e cops and gov).

Luckily my MP is one of the good ones. That's a nice website, makes it easy to contact your MP based on your postal code

I think it is time for me to explore whether i can create a messaging platform that relies on i2p, nothing they could do against this.

PGP exists. If your threat model requires pretty good privacy, the absolute minimum you should do is manually add a second level of encryption with PGP with manually exchanged keys somewhere off-grid.

Go offgrid