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Canadian Government Scrapping Internet Predators Act

Posted by Unknown on from the except-for-the-warrantless-wiretapping dept.

dakohli writes "The Conservative Goverment of Canada is scrapping the controversial bill C-30 They will instead make 'modest' changes to the existing Warrantless Wiretap bill. This bill was widely panned by Privacy Critics and members of the opposition. Another victory for online privacy!"

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  1. Modest changes by EmperorOfCanada · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suspect that by modest changes they mean that they are going to gut our rights. Anyone who works in government quickly learns that control of information is power. It makes them angry that they can't get more information and it makes them scared that we can get so much.

    Exhibit #1: Egypt. They want to turn off Youtube for a month because of "blasphemy" what they really don't want people seeing is the growing discontent that is visibly displayed every day along with the misdeeds of the police; this will work of course because youtube is the only site on the whole Internet that hosts videos.

    We don't need a new internet law we need something at the constitutional level that protects us from government spying while also enshrining our rights to force the government to expose its secrets.

    1. Re:Modest changes by Luckyo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Ah, another "government is this monolithic entity that is sooooooo scary" post. Massive upmods incoming.

      Reality is, most of these bills in the West are drafted by interested parties. Most of which are no governmental but private in nature. And while many laws look (and are) quite terrible as they are drafted by people with massive vested interests in them, modern Western democracies have numerous checks and balances to thwart such legislation from becoming actual law. Which is what happened in this case.

      The fact that you chose Egypt, a country that essentially survived beginning of a civil war and still hasn't worked itself through it and has never been a democracy befiore as an example of average Western government shows that you're quite pants on the head kind of special poster.

  2. Omnibus bill by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably everything will get thrown into the next budget omnibus bill which will pass and then we'll only find out six months later what was contained in it.