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From what I can tell it’s more the progressive wing of most countries who are pushing for authoritarian censorship of the internet. Just look at Canada
by canadiantim 4y ago
From what I can tell it’s more the progressive wing of most countries who are pushing for authoritarian censorship of the internet. Just look at Canada
- metadat 4y ago<Citation requested> Is this common knowledge? It's the first claim I've encountered of Canada attempting Internet censorship.
- zo1 4y agoI googled it and found Bill C-11. Not going to dig deeper into it and confirm details, but maybe you didn't hear about it for a reason?
- JacobThreeThree 4y agoIt's a big topic right now in Canada. Pre-Elon Twitter compared Canada's proposed regulations to North Korea and China. >Newly released documents reveal Twitter Canada told government officials that a federal plan to create a new internet regulator with the power to block specific websites is comparable to drastic actions used in authoritarian countries like China, North Korea and Iran. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-twitter-compared-liberal-governments-online-harms-plan-to-china-north/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-twitter-com...
- manuelabeledo 4y ago> ... it’s more the progressive wing of most countries who are pushing for authoritarian censorship of the internet China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Russia... Aren't progressive by any metric.
- blfr 4y agoChina is nominatively communist, the most progressive ideology in existence or at least in the running for the title. They even had one-child policy.
- manuelabeledo 4y ago> China is nominatively communist, the most progressive ideology in existence... There is no connection whatsoever between progressive social policies, and macroeconomic planning. Denmark is an extremely progressive country, way more than China in all aspects, yet they run under a free-market capitalist economy.
- earth_walker 4y agoI agree that the Liberal's current push to degrade Canadian's privacy is worrisome - and their excuse is "we need expanded surveillance powers to make sure your privacy is protected..."!?! I disagree that this is a partisan thing however. Whether it's Canada, the UK or anywhere else it seems each party in power just pushes for more surveillance and more censorship, just using different excuses to justify their actions. For example, Harper's conservative government put forth bill C-13 (online crime excuse) and C-30 ('think of the children' excuse), which arguably laid the way for much of the spying apparatus that is currently in place against Canadian citizens. And while Obama allowed the NSA's warrantless internet surveillance program, Trump extended it until 2024. All governments want to spy on you, and all governments want to be able to control what you say, period. They just want you to beg for it first.
- int_19h 4y agoBoth big government conservatives and big government progressives are pushing for more censorship. The only difference is the topics that they want to be censored. (Side note: the American Republican party is big government conservatives. Their rhetoric is irrelevant - look at what they do, not at what they say they want to do.)