Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

Post by 0xDEAFBEAD » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 3:58 PM UTC

koe123 wrote: post #146

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> then will act surprised as Canada's tech sector finds it even harder to create any consumer facing businesses... That's not why an indigenous Canadian tech industry is non-existent. Heck, China, Israel, India, South Korea, and Taiwan all have larger tech industries than Canada and have much stricter internet speech requirements (and in Israel and Taiwan's case are much smaller than Canada population wise). Canadian…

One thing I have been thinking about is digital tariffs. The US is perfectly willing to slam billions into ventures that lose money for years. EU for example doesn’t work that way. Consequence: US can develop faster, unconstrained by profitability, and capture the entire market before EU. This seems as US being more “innovative”, but realistically they are just running a perhaps similar engine way hotter at the cost…

Post by ShinyLeftPad » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC

EmbarrassedHelp wrote: post #66

alephnerd wrote: post #13

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> then will act surprised as Canada's tech sector finds it even harder to create any consumer facing businesses... That's not why an indigenous Canadian tech industry is non-existent. Heck, China, Israel, India, South Korea, and Taiwan all have larger tech industries than Canada and have much stricter internet speech requirements (and in Israel and Taiwan's case are much smaller than Canada population wise). Canadian…

> Heck, China, Israel, India, South Korea, and Taiwan all have larger tech industries than Canada and have much stricter internet speech requirements (and in Israel and Taiwan's case are much smaller than Canada population wise). That's actually not true for most of those countries. None of those countries other than maybe China have laws requiring encryption backdoors. Suspicionless bulk metadata retention is also i…

Post by Whoppertime » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 4:40 AM UTC

HerbManic wrote: post #147

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in a three-party system, there's provably no optimal voting system. Most people who would normally vote NDP voted strategically in the last election to prevent a conservative majority. While it's true in the literal sense that we got what we voted for -- I mean, that's tautological; whoever wins an election is "voted" for -- it's not really the whole picture.

There is always the Australian system. Mandatory voting, preferential votes, majority rule. The Preferential part is the most important, it means you can vote for who you want but also have the second preference get a vote if the first fails to get a wide enough margin. That first vote however will get additional resources based on vote tally with the next election cycle. If either of the last two majority parties fa…