Why are they so determined to do evil?
They just got elected a 4th time in a row this is what the average Canadian wants...
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your point is that no matter where you are somebody with guns (police/bandits) can take your land and unrelatedly in some places there are also public services?
Let me try one last time. Tl;dr you either pay taxes to a legitimate state (hopefully) with rule of law. Or you don't live in a (well-)functioning state and pay criminals. "Police take your stuff" can happen in either kind of place. In only the first kind will "call a lawyer" be helpful, and only if it was done illegally. This whole discussion is about places with weaker government and rule of law. "Call a lawyer" wo…
> Tl;dr you either pay taxes to a legitimate state (hopefully) with rule of law. Or you don't live in a (well-)functioning state and pay criminals.
I see, your point is that people with guns can take your land but in some places when you pay taxes it gives you hope that it’s not the police that will do that and in other places paying the criminals could give you hope that they won’t take your land
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#153> Minister of Public Safety to demand companies create a backdoor to their services to provide law enforcement access to data, as long as these mandates don’t introduce a “systemic vulnerability.”
How is a backdoor not a systemic vulnerability?
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#154I've noticed a lot of bad digital rights stuff on HN over the last couple weeks - more pushes on age verification, attacks on end-to-end encryption, and now this. Is there something about the time of year? Maybe because the world cup is coming and people will be distracted?
In my hometown, we're quashing human rights to make room for the world cup! It's not a smokescreen, it's the justification. https://www.pivotlegal.org/city_of_vancouver_s_new_fifa_byla...
Just saw this, i had to laugh because at first i thought you were talking about Mexico and was picturing something much worse than a bylaw with some fines for things like unauthorized street vending which the maximum is less than what you would make renting out your tent spot for a few days during the tournament