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Entirely true. I'm a Canadian who now lives in the US working in tech, working in Canada again just isn't on the table since I'd be slicing my pay in half. For the big cities in Ca…

I've always been puzzled by accredited investor regulations. For an over-simplified explanation for most countries such as the US and Canada it means one has at least $1,000,000 of…

The timing of the release of this tool seems a bit innapropriate, given the state of rioting in a few US cities now. It's going to be incredibly draining on law enforcement in the …

Depends on how it's used. For example it could be useful for people protesting authoritarian governments, such as in Hong Kong. For blurring rioters during a crime spree, I don't t…

Another one: "I hate onions". Now, replace onions with a derogatory name for another group. We can't prohibit negative words on account they can be used to express negative opinion…

That's one of the many core dangers of disrespecting free speech for the sake of prohibiting "hate speech". It's a very, very short step for a government to persecute criticism of …

It could be an action from a rogue employee. Possibly not a management decision or specific company policy, just a filter added by an employee with access to it. There might be som…

This is a bit of a tangent, but one should be careful with that path. Not all employers are 'evil' and have negative intentions for their employees. Think of an example such as the…

I'd say it's not really their responsibility to do that, and could lead to something dangerous. Universality is important, so if they did that, the door would be wide open to them …

Probably this. No atrocities committed by any government were done because the government viewed itself as 'evil' so it must do evil things, the perpetrators always view their crim…

Many news media companies have been engaging in just that, trying to point out (hypocritically) where their competitors attempted to downplay the threat of the virus. It's not so m…

That's true. While yes the WHO is following regulations, they're following regulations that were created to exclude the Republic of China from it in order to entice the PRC to join…

Countries are finding out that most government institutions for viral disaster preparedness were completely unprepared for this pandemic. Little to supplies stored, no plans ready …

I think Twitter's motivation isn't to reduce the impact of the virus, or that their management trusts governments this much. They're anticipating politicians looking for scapegoats…

From what I've observed in the US, both major political parties are advocates of socializing the downside. The current Canadian federal government, though very left-leaning, is als…

Are you requesting people confirm that Spiked is approved by a specific orthodoxy before reading the article and judging for themselves?

Youtube has been doing that for a long time now, manually adjusting specific search results, basing it sometimes on geography. I don't know if they are still manually adjusting res…

If you speak to anyone who works in supply chain, they're all experiencing massive disruptions. Traffic from Chinese ports has slowed significantly, these things take some time bef…

China's social credit score system would be an easy place for them to look for "undesirables" to use for livestock, create an ever shifting minimal level of political servitude to …