Canadians Respond To Internet Spying Bill By 'Revealing All' To Politician Backing It
from the internet-memes-against-internet-regulation dept
We recently wrote about a new effort in Canada around "lawful access" (a nice way of saying internet spying by government). The really ridiculous part was that the Public Safety Minister pushing the bill, Vic Toews pulled out the ridiculous logical fallacy that anyone against the bill was "for child pornography." That, of course, is insane. But, because this is the internet, it responds as it does best, by creating a meme. Tons of people on Twitter are revealing all sorts of random information with Toews on Twitter using the hashtag #TellVicEverything. Apparently a bunch of people are leaving him voicemails as well. Watching the Twitter feed is fun, as you find out when people go to sleep, when they wake up and when they have trouble sleeping. Then there are some amusing confessional tweets, like the person who confesses using zucchini instead of meat in spaghetti sauce, or the person who admits to lying to a telemarketer when asked if he's "busy." Who knows if Toews will back down, but when you become a national joke, perhaps it's time to rethink your legislative strategy.
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I'm for it...
It seems the politicians believe Im for terrorism, child porn, and rampant piracy.
Just because I want to watch The Big Bang Theory when I want to watch it.
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Short answer: mr TOEwS will not back down.
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Me Too!
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This is rediculous in the extreme. To take away the rights of thirty million Canadians just to catch a few child pornographers? Especially when police have caught over 30 child pornographers in Canada over the last 2 years.
Vic Toews is a part of a problem in most developed countries. They are politicians who feel a need to take away our rights so they can "keep us safe" without ever really knowing how to do that.
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"They are politicians who feel a need to take away our rights so they can "keep us safe" without ever really knowing how to do that."
It has nothing to do we keeping us safe. It's all about controlling the masses.
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He must be passing this law to control the masses. Once you know what people think, what they do and everything they say to each other, you can stop legal protests before they happen, you can shill and spread propaganda very effectively (you know exactly what will convince your strongest opponents), you can prevent the leaders of opponent groups from doing their job... the possibilities are endless, but they all come down to controlling society.
I'll die before I bend.
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@vikileaks30
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Precedent
In the US Constitution the citizens are guaranteed the right to a speedy trial.
However, when they go to court the first thing they're required to waive prior to proceedings IS their right to a speedy trial.
Which is why you'll have people who've spent years in prison prior to their trial--literally "innocent" people being kept in prison for multiple years.
It's disgusting--reeks of the corruption in the system.
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/justice/california-ice-shooting/index.html?hpt=ju_c2
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http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1131446--conservative-bill-c-30-wi ll-let-police-spy-on-canadians-online?bn=1
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Oh, as a side note, my child has a classmate named Lamar Smith. Is it wrong to severely dislike this kid, despite the fact that I've never met him?
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More importantly, how is it that this idiot still has public support despite being one of the most nefarious enemies of the internet?
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Such is the plight of the boy named Sue :P
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Anyway, back to the leak, News reports say that they've tracked down the IP of the poster and it comes from an IP address in the House of Commons. Toews has asked the Speaker of the House to conduct and investigation into who it is or who it might be.
One way or another, you know, when you live your life in public people are going to find out things about your past even including a very nasty divorce. And that's what got spread all over Twitter.
Worse than the warrentless search itself is that Teows went back of the promise of his predecessor that such a thing would never happen.
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More interesting it is also appears the bill allows them to appoint inspectors who can just wander in and look at all the records whenever without a warrant or oversight.
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/17/canadas-spying-bill-also-all.html
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Internet Spying Bill??
Being a politician does not require technical knowledge obviously!
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