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Canada used to be a fairly good place to be for digital freedom, encryption, and lax copyright enforcement but it seems like the tides are changing for the wors
by __turbobrew__ 3y ago
Canada used to be a fairly good place to be for digital freedom, encryption, and lax copyright enforcement but it seems like the tides are changing for the worse.
Canada will never have the political might to bend FAANGs to their will, there just isn’t enough money and people and also very little supply chain goes through Canada.
I’m honestly quite sad as a Canadian to see our country’s government squabble over small things which really don’t matter in the big picture while we cannot house our population, we cannot keep our population healthy, and we cannot keep ourselves economically relevant outside of resource extraction and real estate.
- tomComb 3y agoIt’s not that these are small things, but rather that these (Bill c-18) are nonsensical and harmful initiatives driven by the interests of the telecom companies. Note that they were expected to get 70% off the money from Google and Facebook. As Coyne wrote, it was a shakedown. This isn’t misguided priorities, it is political corruption.
- voisin 3y agoCanadians are used to these shakedowns. When it is elevated to the international stage our ministers are shocked that the rest of the world doesn’t bend to their reality distortion fields and blindly acquiesce.