This is China tightening the noose on another country.
Could you elaborate?
Canada's awful new proposals on “harmful” content
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Singapore would be a toss up in terms of privacy, but it is excellent and friendly for work-focused, law-abiding, norm-conforming kind of people. I don't mean it in a bad way.
Canada is 'becoming a police state' somehow, and the answer is to move to a bastion of freedom like Singapore. Just... I... ugh.
Yeah, I found that pretty questionable of a move as well.
On the opposite side of the political isle, you could observe the same thing, with a bunch of republicans loudly proclaiming on the internet their "plans" to move to Canada whenever Obama implemented Obamacare or tried to raise taxes on anything. Given that Canada has socialized healthcare and higher taxes, they looked just as ridiculous as people in this thread "planning" a move to Singapore due to Canada pushing anti-privacy laws. That's the taste of self-hating north americans for you.
A good quote in relation to this comes to mind: "There is no geographical solution to personal problems." Note: it doesn't mean that moving to another country due to your current one becoming unlivable is bad idea. But it seems weird to want to leave your country due to poor internet laws for a country with even worse internet laws and privacy. Which is what you can see with those mentions of Singapore, they didn't quite think it through at all. That's the taste of a group of self-hating north americans for you.
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#63I expect Canada to become a police state (its already on the way) and the brain drain to accelerate. Bill C-10 and C-36 are horrific China emulating policies, loose definition of "hate speech", bypassing courts in favour of human rights tribunals with 100% conviction rates and no requirement of evidence, preventative enforcement by police. With C-36, even saying something truthful, if causes perceived harm is a punis…
An elephant in the room is worth noting: democracies were built to avoid dystopias, yet there are growing trends of "it is better to leave" in long established democracies - "Contact your representative then" increasingly seems to no longer be an established, working idea. Several factors may accompany this phenomenon: polarization; perceived failures in education¹; sometimes anti-centrism in the government; politica…
>An elephant in the room is worth noting: democracies were built to avoid dystopias
Or so the commoners have been lead to believe. Those in power, in a democracy or otherwise always knew that the masses can be manipulated in their favor. Now a 'democracy' does have the advantage in providing an illusion to the common citizen that they are in control, which actually favors those in power because now they need to worry less about the masses revolting.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netherlands, although not perfect still has some classical liberal ideals. Singapore is a "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", who in their right mind would go there.
I lived in Eindhoven for three years. I found it very uncomfortable.
In what ways if I may ask?
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> In what country can you give away 40% of your paycheck making less than 6 figures to then pay for dental work, prescriptions and education out of pocket while needing to make 3x the average salary to afford an average house? Yeah, I dunno... Maybe there's a little bit of the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" effect going on here, but as an American, if I hadn't read the rest of your post, I would ha…
I think a big difference between the US and Canada is that living in Denver, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, etc... is way more desirable than living in Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa or Winnipeg... In Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are the only real 'destinations' and they're SF and NYC expensive but with jobs that pay less than half...
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