Fuck, they just wonβt quit with this bullshit.
Is there anything regular people can do to stop this?
Fuck, they just wonβt quit with this bullshit.
Is there anything regular people can do to stop this?
Carney is basically pushing the 2015 conservative party program and everyone praises him. The "left" basically doesn't exist anymore in Canada, you have the choice between the right and far-right. I'm so tired.
Gonna need a VPN to connect to your VPN.
Does Canada care? π²
Nobody in Canada wants this to pass, only the police lobby that is intrumentalized to promote this is interested.
Is there organizing happening up there? I've been disappointed at the amount of my friends and neighbors here in the US who understand it, contacted their congressperson, and then hung up their hat like the job was done.
My plan is to move away from things that can be tracked as much as possible. Dropping Android when I can no longer get GraphineOS working, moving to a dumb phone and a data hotspot with a cyberdeck the size of a phone.
The gov won't listen on these issues because it is a law giving them more power. No amount of protesting is going to get them to stop spying because it is all supose to be secret anyway.
Yeah, but then we also need to rally about C-30, that re-authorizes all kind of known dangerous chemicals for the environment but also for our health, and rally against new pipelines, privatization of ports and airports, etc.
Move fast and break (every)thing, so when people complain too loudly, it's too late, there's nothing left to salvage, and they're already putting their hand on something else to divest attention from everything else they broke so far.
Theres petitions and such going around and people are vocal about it, but no rallying up for it yet.
I am going to give you one guess on who wrote the bill and is pushing the police lobby. All LE in Canada has an existing relationship with this company.
Yep. I use all of these, and it would be utter bullshit to lose access over poorly thought out lawmaking.
Why does humanity have to keep fighting the same fights against different governments over and over again?
Cannot governments, for once, be even slightly on the side of a free society?
States are built on control. They literally only exist because they are the dominant power structure in a specific area.
States pushing for more freedom is antithetical.
I agree with that (unlike the other answer I got to this; yeah, Soviet-aligned states were definitely very free societies amirite /s), but then again, sometimes there are more or less successful movements toward more freedom. The history of the 20th century alone is that of the century ending with much more freedom in the world than there was during most of it. How have we completely forgotten those values?
Yes. Just to be clear Iβm not a pessimist, I donβt believe we canβt achieve more freedom. Iβm just an anarchist. I believe to truly end domination and have self-determination, the move towards freedom must ultimately aim to end the state.
The problem is that tracking people is big money, so tech companies like Google, Meta, Palantir, Flock, etc stand to make a lot of money. So they're heavily bribing lobbying governments to make it easier to track people
Place your bets everyone, which way do you think this will go?
Canada doesn't pass the surveillance law
The law passes and some/all of Signal/DDG/NordVPN remain anyway
The law passes and they exit Canada
(something else)
I'm thinking the law passes but the courts kill it due to it violating our Charter. I also feel that the tech companies will not wait for the court case to conclude before leaving Canada.
Or
#2 DDG might not leave, Signal might do something maliciously compliant, and NordVPN will just leave.
2 or 3
I guess signal has more to lose in reputation, than Canada brings them as country
For the other ones, I don't know
XMPP, TOR, and a few 20 4get instances will still be there. All good.
4get.ca
I can now quickly identify various birds, minecraft areas, and those weird anime plushy things no problem.
What do they have over Canada? why should they care?
If Signal were to make a backdoor for the government, that would compromise the security of all users world-wide.
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