What a deeply troubled time. It's accelerating so fast. All this age verification/surveillance shit is intensifying super fast.
Meanwhile personal computing is being savagely destroyed, as consumer channels to ram and storage disappear.
It's so bad. These people need to be punished. This is so so so unacceptable and the forces for state intrusion into all digital systems and pervasive survelliance have gotten so so so far in the past couple years.
AlanYx•28m ago
It's a confluence of two things: (i) Canada's government policy community tends to be heavily influenced by legislative trends in the UK/Aus/NZ; this particular one is almost a direct import from the UK's ill-advised Online Safety Act, though worse in some ways, and (ii) a series of Canadian Supreme Court decisions, most notably 2024's Bykovets, which the security intelligence apparatus in Canada feels has totally hamstrung data collection.
Both (i) and (ii) have led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good.
Izikiel43•20m ago
> Both (i) and (ii) have led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good.
You can summarize a lot of government actions of any spectrum with: "The road to hell is full of good intentions"
dmitrygr•7m ago
> led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good.
I'll take the other end of the bet claiming that they think they are doing good. I am pretty sure they know what they are doing full well, and it ain't good.
fidotron•18m ago
Because we've removed the ability for anyone non-evil to succeed politically.
onlytue•26m ago
To the people whining on HN for the hundredth time about surveillance being spread across the globe: you’re all pussy ass bitches who won’t do shit about it. Simple as that.
glitchc•12m ago
What would you have us do beyond voting against it?
mcsniff•6m ago
Asking for your oppressor to stop oppressing you will never work.
Time to find a different way to effect change.
mcsniff•7m ago
You're gonna get destroyed in the comments, but you're right.
testfrequency•4m ago
Share resources on what to do
subarctic•10m ago
I'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?
josefritzishere•39m ago
jauntywundrkind•32m ago
Meanwhile personal computing is being savagely destroyed, as consumer channels to ram and storage disappear.
It's so bad. These people need to be punished. This is so so so unacceptable and the forces for state intrusion into all digital systems and pervasive survelliance have gotten so so so far in the past couple years.
AlanYx•28m ago
Both (i) and (ii) have led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good.
Izikiel43•20m ago
You can summarize a lot of government actions of any spectrum with: "The road to hell is full of good intentions"
dmitrygr•7m ago
I'll take the other end of the bet claiming that they think they are doing good. I am pretty sure they know what they are doing full well, and it ain't good.
fidotron•18m ago