Canada Ping!
I'm an expatatriot from Belleville, Ontario, now living in the States.
Both countries have quietly surrendered freedom for supposed safety, and because of that deserve neither. My Canadian brethren have done exactly what the Americans have done: while claiming to dispise a big government type police state they vote time and again for proponents of such.
Consider the bell curve of intelligence. Half of the people have two digit IQ's (literally) and are easily duped. Convince them they need something, then promise to give it to them, and you have a solid voting block.
It has happened in Canada and it is happening here. Once half the population is beholden to the government the game is over. Welcome to European povertyville.
Ping to Canada police search of internet use.
Well now Canada will be just like America. A police state.
The biggest indicator that it is a complete scam: “It is to protect ‘the children’ from ‘predators’!”
Years ago, the US National Security Agency was very worried because public encryption had become good enough so that individuals and corporations could transfer enormous amounts of money internationally without the US government knowing about it.
So they asked congress to pass a law mandating that all means of encryption *had* to have a back door, accessible to the NSA.
But, because they thought this was too complicated to ‘sell’ to the public or congress, and because they didn’t want to give anyone ideas about how to evade US government financial monitoring, they officially touted this law, “Because pedophiles and child pornographers are using encryption!”
While an argument can be made that transferring millions of dollars around the world without the NSA knowing about it actually *might* be a “national security” thing, pedophilism and child pornography is not. If the NSA stumbles across a bunch of it, it does not care, because it is not its job. It is too busy to fuss with anything other than national security related issues, no matter how interesting it would be to other government agencies.
In any event, congress said no to requiring mandatory back doors. But it didn’t matter in the long run, because the NSA developed technologies that allowed it to scan vast amounts of electronic data to look for suspicious activity.
Canada Ping!
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