Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills

An anonymous reader writes "One of the major unanswered questions about Bill C-30, Canada's lawful access/online surveillance bill, is who will pay for the costs associated with responding to law enforcement demands for subscriber information ('look ups') and installation of surveillance equipment ('hook ups'). Michael Geist recently obtained documents (PDF) from Public Safety under the Access to Information Act that indicates the government doesn't really have its own answer. But he reports that the police do — a new 'public safety' tax to be added to Internet and wireless bills."

Comments

Re: who will pay?

[Surt]

There's a simpler way to look at it:

Taxes, prices, consumption, production, it all comes down to labor producing assets and those assets (proxied by money) flowing around the system. In the end, who winds up with the assets that are produced by the labor? The 1%. Arguing over any of the rest is just fighting over the scraps. If you're unhappy with the way the world works, find a way to kill a 1%er. It's the only way things will actually improve.