Major tech companies threaten to leave Canada over radical internet surveillance bill
Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN are considering limiting or shutting down services in Canada if Bill C-22 becomes law.
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Google warns Canadian internet bill would lead to ‘surveillance infrastructure’
Google recently criticized Liberals’ Bill C-22, which mandates that internet companies include surveillance capabilities in their systems, saying that it would harm ‘global user privacy.’
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Canada’s Liberals say they will amend ‘dystopian’ internet bill after pressure from Big Tech
Despite the promised changes, the Liberals’ bill apparently would still allow police to investigate people’s online presence.
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UK’s new anti-pornography measures are a good start, but they don’t go far enough
The Online Safety Act is intended to reduce the number of minor porn users via a series of credit card checks and photo ID matching verification of age.
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Pro-freedom legal group fights to stop Brazil banning Elon Musk’s X
ADF International has called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to intervene in Brazil's censorship crisis after Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes suspends Elon Musk’s X, raising alarm over free speech violations.
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The Trudeau gov’t has destroyed Canadian news. Was it incompetence or malevolence?
As though the signaled intent to ban Canadian media on Facebook and Google isn’t irksome enough there is another, albeit terribly conspiratorial alternative: what if the Online News Act, in drastic contrast to its stated motive, is functioning exactly as intended?
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