Bill C-11 is inching closer to becoming the law, and Canadians are weighing in.
The legislation, if passed, will take aim at Canadians’ online feeds. One such affected feed could be their homepage on YouTube, where content would be prioritized based on goals set out by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
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On Monday, prominent Canadian internet and e-commerce law professor Michael Geist said trust is waning in the CRTC because it acts like an arm of the government instead of acting like an independent regulator.
“Just last week […] Rodriguez told an industry conference that he could ‘direct the CRTC on many things and in many ways,’” wrote Geist on Substack.
On Twitter, he wrote the government may have “lost the script” about Bill C-11.
Watching Minister @pablorodriguez flippantly dismiss fears of thousands of Canadian creators, mislead TV/film production community on their concerns, and reject an extensive Senate study on Bill C-11 suggests government has lost the script on this bill.https://t.co/nPXIG3zSoc
Outstanding remarks -Bill C-11 is an affront to freedom of expression, an assault on Canadian creators, an infringement by Trudeau/Rodriguez on my right to choose what content I view
This Canadian effort echoes President Biden’s apparent attempt last year to outlaw “disinformation”, by putting the talentless Nina Jankowicz in charge of the thankfully short lived Disinformation Governance Board.
What has gone wrong with society? Why are there such attempts to encroach on our most fundamental liberty, the right to communicate openly with our fellows? Why is the Canadian Government pushing Bill C-11? Why did Biden push his Disinformation Governance Board?
Whatever the answer to this question, I hope the next administrations, in both Canada and the USA, puts a stop to it.
Gender re-assignment surgery will go a long way towards that goal over here.
QODTMWTD
February 12, 2023 3:15 pm
What has gone wrong with society? People have embraced the idea that they’re the means to each other’s ends. Once you reject the idea that every person is an end in himself it’s only a matter of time before you fall into one of two camps: the rulers or the ruled.
When sociopaths and psychopaths reach a certain threshold level in any government, that nation or state will begin to attack its own citizens as the enemy! Until we learn how to ID and isolate the criminally insane, we will continue to lose our wealth, rights and freedom!
Psychopaths, prevalent as politicians, CEOs and conmen, see everyone around them as a danger. Those that submit will be rewarded; those that rebel must be destroyed!
“Until we learn how to ID and isolate the criminally insane, we will continue to lose our wealth, rights and freedom!”
How would you propose that we go about screening people? I ask sincerely because I agree whole heartedly with you.
The Marxist religion is displacing conventional religions.
As a long time atheist, I don’t understand the need for a religion, but I can observe that most people do want to be part of a conventional or secular religion.
Climate change is a subset of Marxism. It is all about political power and control for the ultimate rule by leftist “experts”, who are actually not experts in any subjects except political power and control.
Their goal is controlling many people, like us, who want freedom, and do not want to be controlled by fake “experts”.
I believe this Marxists revolution, already in progress in the US and Canada, will eventually lead to a second US civil war, with guns. Canadians will likely not fight back, except for the truckers. That’s why leftists also want to confiscate guns.
Richard,
exactly where in Marx’s collected works does he mention climate change? Marxism is primarily a view of history that argues that the best way of understanding it is through the lens of “means of production” and thw struggles between different groups bound together as a result of belonging to the same economic class.
Climate change has nothing to do with Marxism and if anything Marx would refute the idea that it drives politics since it doesn’t change the way the ruling class create a surplus.
He also didn’t mention space rockets and satellites, but the the USSR operating under Marxist doctrine still managed to put them into space.
What a silly comment you’ve made Izaak. Stop trying to excuse the desire for total control that the eco-mentalists demand.
Marx also didn’t talk about space rockets and satellites, but the USSR, under Marxism, managed to produce them.
What a silly comment you’ve made Izaak.
Totalitarianism requires an enemy, censorship, and the destruction of what works in the existing economy.
Climate change is the new enemy
Nut Zero is part of the destruction of the existing economy, along with open borders, election fraud, racial division, Critical Racist Theory. attacks on Christian values, attacks on small businesses (lockdowns), leftist brainwashing in schools, including promoting alternate sexual choices over Christian values, etc.
Every leftist decision and plan is obviously intended to weaken and ruin America, and intended to advance the desired fundamental transformation from the current socialism, to fascism, and finally to Marxism in the long run.
The goal of the new Marxism is the same as the goal of the old Marxism, with its class antagonism enemy: Rule by leftist experts, total government control, with minimal personal freedom. Climate change fearmongering and Nut Zero are devious strategies to get there.
The big problem is that people like you WANT this to happen, so you deny that it is happening.
(I just typed up a long response (I don’t think Richard would have objected.) but I’d misspelled “Beauracry” I hit correct and it all disappeared.
Long comment short, ““”Totalitarianism requires an enemy.” It doesn’t require an “enemy” per say. It requires those who lust for power that will exploit any means to attain it.
It just drives Progressives spare that the rest of us are happy, and can make choices for ourselves. Especially when our individual choices are seen by them to be the “wrong” choices.
they are demanding their right to be not offended.
What if I’m offended by people not being offended?
DMacKenzie
February 12, 2023 3:36 pm
The Turdeau government departments won’t censor WUWT content, they will just legislate service providers to cut off Canadian’s ability to view it. Service providers will get a list of which IP addresses people are allowed to receive data from. Just like China and Iran.
The policing of this will likely require a huge government department that will be paid for by fees to either service providers or their customers. Easy-peasey….key words, phrases, and content memes will get you booted…and the appeal committee will be at your expense with incredibly high fees… a new revenue department income stream. The possibilities for control, surveillance, and revenue is staggering.
And, of course, they will require access to every bit of data a user sends or receives. How else do they know if you are complying ? Actually they can already do this….
Ardern tried that during the lock down VPN usage went through the roof
“The harder you squeeze the more the sand runs through your fingers”
This will promote internet skills amongst Canadians
Add in xmpp apps like Telegram and better still Briar and Session
Turd dough has a snowballs chance in hell of blocking stuff if china can’t this looser can’t
2 key encryption systems are already developing Quantum proof encryption
Linux is very usable now days a Linux system on a USB stick called Tails is brilliant just use your VPN to download it so they do not know you have it
And do not forget WUWT is also on GETTR
Your VPN provider has an IP address too. Easily traced….easily rendered inaccessible with one level of know-how above the average IT wonk. Say CGI, one of the world’s largest IT companies, with the Canadian Government their major sugar daddy client, could do this in their sleep. They can record keystrokes and screen clicks and your “encryption” too….
I think that any journalist coming from NZ must be interrogated in entry and exit; a true screening like someone from Irak, etc. But not to know if he is linked with ISIS. To know if he is linked with any organisation that ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers, who comment on their writings, etc.
If so, he should be required to read and learn a killer manifesto. His new org will be required to carry the killer manifesto. If not, he will be told that he can’t meet with anyone who ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers. He must ask any person he meets whether the person does before doing anything more than asking where the toilet is in a restaurant.
IOW, I ask for total segregation. Anyone from NZ cannot discuss with anyone who ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers, only that person is presumed a political opponent.
I would like to see (in the USA) a law that forbids anyone who lives off the government teat (aside from Social Security, which most of us have paid into) NOT get the right to vote.
Make it a condition of their request for benefits (or employment).
Limit voting to those who “have skin in the game”.
Turdeau believes that classical computers have too little memory, like those poor “budget” smartphones with 6 GB = 48 billions bits, and by stuffing more info per element (per bit), quantum computers will solve that problem with their at most 400 qubits – and nobody knows if 1000 qubits is even doable.
And the whole progressive world, the generation Z, the young people who were “born with computers”, applauded.
The CBC intelligentsia (or “The Independent”) think such melting pot of sciency terms is brillant.
Some specific fields may find a use for these computers if they work reliably, at scale, one day.
So I’m definitely now anti QC. I don’t think any investment in QC is by definition wasted. (But fusion as a energy source, notably TOKAMAK, is clearly a pure waste of resources.)
But to believe that QC is to your current computer what the PC/AT at 6 MHz was to the Apollo guidance computer (which is clearly what Trudeau was trying to say)… lol.
Agreed. TOKAMAK is a complete waste of money (except for the possible new knowledge about fusion), and so is the NIF (National Ignition Facility).
All they are doing is building a new steam engine, with no regard for the massive amounts of highly radioactive waste those plants would produce.
There may be no radioactive by-products in the fusion process, but the recovery of the energy (fast neutrons) by stainless steel cooling jackets means embrittleness and ablation, requiring replacement and disposal of same.
Science and a political agenda so solid that everything contrary must be banned.
martinc19
February 12, 2023 4:44 pm
We shall see … TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) was originally designed to be bomb-proof. Literally. It does not recognise censorship. If the link doesn’t work just go another way. Some operating systems (eg M$oft Windows) try to pretend otherwise, hence Linux etc.TOR and other “dark-web” entities are best avoided by most of us, but there are VPNs that work to protect against viruses and malware, and if they can do that, they can handle censorship as well.
I once asked (on the phone) a relative which Web browser he used. He said “internet” so I asked again; after I insisted he said “Google”; I asked “you use Google Chrome?”; he said yes.
I asked a friend who had his bank account blocked (after an incorrectly specified operation) and thus had his Internet access blocked if he could access anything on the Internet. He said “nothing is accessible” and I pushed him again and again. He was very assertive and definitive (and unpleasant) while I was on the phone trying my best to help. According to him, everything was blocked: he tested many Web sites.
The case occurred again to him, is Internet access was blocked (same cause: incorrect operation on his account) and he finally admitted that he only ever tested Google Search, as he was trying to enter a name in the search bar.
That’s when I realized that to help people with computers, I needed to acquire (police like) interrogator skills, like doctors learn to.
Conclusion: for many people, the Internet = their search engine; so nothing is more centralized than what they view as “the Internet” or “the Web”.
Around 90% of people believe whatever they are told, based on Aussie vaccination rates, but around 10% of the believers will examine the evidence and change their minds if contrary evidence presents. At least half the remaining believers will pull back if the evidence against their initial belief is overwhelming. Freedom isn’t dead yet.
We have had constant anti nuke propaganda in France. As a child, I remember that every time an “independent group” was quoted by mainstream media about EDF, about CEA, about any incident, it was an anti nuke group.
Yet a lot of the population is pro nuke, and pretty much all of the right and far right voters, plus the communist voters.
To me it proves that long term propaganda is a lot less efficient than people think.
“The harder you squeeze the more the sand runs through your fingers”
This will promote internet skills amongst Canadians
Add in xmpp apps like Telegram and better still Briar and Session
Turd dough has a snowballs chance in hell of blocking stuff if china can’t this looser can’t
2 key encryption systems are already developing Quantum proof encryption
Linux is very usable now days a Linux system on a USB stick called Tails is brilliant just use your VPN to download it so they do not know you have it
And do not forget WUWT is also on GETTR
Ron Long
February 12, 2023 5:27 pm
Trudeau and his Climate Hosers are making the McKenzie Brothers (“…got the back bacon on the Coleman…it’s a beauty way to go”) look really smart. If 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the USA border why the hell wouldn’t they welcome the chance to spread out a little?
Shoki
February 12, 2023 5:37 pm
The Canadian government reported another balloon shot down over Ottawa today but it turned out to be Trudeau’s inflated ego.
I heard it was a Valentine from Chairman-for-life Xi to the little Fiddle for all his support!
Sorry, Eric, I had to steal it! I couldn’t help myself! Oh, wait…I did help myself!
Last edited 3 months ago by abolition man
MarkW
February 12, 2023 6:19 pm
What has gone wrong with society?
The problem isn’t with society, the problem is with the left. Censorship has always been the left’s reaction whenever someone disagrees with them.
Totalitarians on the Left and the Right agree; laughter, humor and truth are dangerous and must be suppressed! When you ridicule them, they respond with “How dare you!”
They publish eight short articles every Wednesday and I read and recommend most of them on my own blog. The authors are anonymous but know what they are talking about. I often change the clever article titles to a title that better summarizes the article, often using a sentence from the article Honest Climate Science and Energy
“Why are there such attempts to encroach on our most fundamental liberty, the right to communicate openly with our fellows?”
Exactly, which is why the American bill of rights has freedom of speech as the FIRST amendment.
Jimmy Walter
February 13, 2023 5:08 am
Why the F are you calling it “Climate Change”? The climate is always changing. You have adopted their propaganda. Ask any scientist if the climate is changing and a rational one will have to say yes. Man Made Global Warming is what they are censoring. Man up! Say it right
Nansar07
February 13, 2023 10:47 am
That ignorant weasel Trudeau seems not to know about VPN and the ability of the Canadian public to get around censorship.
Now, now. There’s no need to denigrate those small, furry, 4-legged carnivores by equating them with Trudeau.
ResourceGuy
February 13, 2023 10:53 am
Let me know the outcome before I move ahead with any plans to visit Canada. I would rather not waste the time in setting up schedules and then have to cancel everything.
ResourceGuy
February 13, 2023 10:56 am
Do we also have to sew a badge on our clothing when in public or online? Let me know when the cattle cars start lining up outside the cities.
Edward Katz
February 13, 2023 2:02 pm
The Canadian government is always trying to cover up the fact that over the last three decades each one of its climate plans has fallen far short of its goal, and the current one is set to follow suit. So to compensate it talks a good game about taking more climate action, sends among the largest delegations to climate conferences (where they accomplish next to nothing), and makes certain its mouthpiece the CBC presents as constant stream of doomsday scenarios of what will happen unless governments and citizens take the appropriate actions. This means paying higher taxes and accepting more laws and restrictions. Except Canadians aren’t buying any of it because surveys consistently show they feel the brunt of climate action should be borne by governments and businesses, while citizens have few intentions of making any big lifestyle changes to combat any climate problems. Like cold winters, they are prepared to live with them, especially since jobs, the economy, inflation, healthcare, affordable housing, and education, to name a few, take precedence.
The surveys must mean that my fellow Canadians are either freeloaders or morons.
If they believe “government” should pay for climate change, they are freeloaders on the minority of people who bear most of the tax burden…and this includes taxation to service the debt if we finance decarbonization by borrowing, as we will.
If they believe “businesses” should pay, they are morons. Any costs imposed on businesses will be passed on to their customers, or taken out of the wage budget, whenever there is no relative competitive disadvantage to doing so.
Canadians are docile enough to pay carbon taxes on gasoline and heating gas but when the lights and the fridge won’t stay on reliably and private cars become unaffordable because there will never be enough lithium batteries, then they will vote out the current government. For now they are scared to death that the Tory Opposition will cut back on free healthcare and can’t bring themselves to vote for them. But change will come when the baby boomers start to die off.
Kpar
February 13, 2023 2:02 pm
OK, can someone clarify something for me?
Why would CANADA, of all places, be opposed to “global warming”?
A few thousand people live in the far north on welfare and they are afraid that melting ice and snow will soak through their mukluks. Since indigenous symbolism permeates everything Canadians profess to believe, we profess to be afraid of climate change, even though the obvious fact is that this current mild winter where 80% of Canadians live has been a godsend.
We are very scared that our 10 months of good sleddin’ and 2 months of bad sleddin’, will turn into 2 1/2 or 3 months of bad sleddin’.
Philip CM
February 13, 2023 2:11 pm
With a munificent government lavishing “for your own good” on the public, who needs the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights or any State Constitution if the Government can act as “knowing what is best” according to an ideology shared by a minority of any given population? 🤷♂️ 😒
But they are doing it for our own good! Just ask them.
He who controls the narrative controls the past. He who controls the past directs the future.
If 1984 concerns you look to 2024. 40 years and nothing’s changed
You’ve really been a shout in, haven’t you?
“I’m doing this for your own good”… every palace executioner.
History repeats.
Ich bin ein Denier!
The Canadian and Australian illiterate will soon be referring to anybody who dare disagree with them as “sub-human”.
The only thing these Marxists are missing are spiffy uniforms and a place to burn all of our books!
After the book burnings, they start burning dissenters.
They don’t have to burn you, they just move you to the top of the list for doctor assisted suicide! It’s for your own good, don’t ya know!
There’s a guy in Japan who’s recommending mass suicide as a solution to the problem of an aging society.
Him first.
Gender re-assignment surgery will go a long way towards that goal over here.
What has gone wrong with society? People have embraced the idea that they’re the means to each other’s ends. Once you reject the idea that every person is an end in himself it’s only a matter of time before you fall into one of two camps: the rulers or the ruled.
Perceptive and framing of that choice helps explain how tyrants gain power without consent of all governed.
When sociopaths and psychopaths reach a certain threshold level in any government, that nation or state will begin to attack its own citizens as the enemy! Until we learn how to ID and isolate the criminally insane, we will continue to lose our wealth, rights and freedom!
Psychopaths, prevalent as politicians, CEOs and conmen, see everyone around them as a danger. Those that submit will be rewarded; those that rebel must be destroyed!
“Until we learn how to ID and isolate the criminally insane, we will continue to lose our wealth, rights and freedom!”
How would you propose that we go about screening people? I ask sincerely because I agree whole heartedly with you.
How would you propose that we go about screening people?
Start with anyone who wants to run for political office. And I’m not sure I’m joking about that..
The Marxist religion is displacing conventional religions.
As a long time atheist, I don’t understand the need for a religion, but I can observe that most people do want to be part of a conventional or secular religion.
Climate change is a subset of Marxism. It is all about political power and control for the ultimate rule by leftist “experts”, who are actually not experts in any subjects except political power and control.
Their goal is controlling many people, like us, who want freedom, and do not want to be controlled by fake “experts”.
I believe this Marxists revolution, already in progress in the US and Canada, will eventually lead to a second US civil war, with guns. Canadians will likely not fight back, except for the truckers. That’s why leftists also want to confiscate guns.
Richard,
exactly where in Marx’s collected works does he mention climate change? Marxism is primarily a view of history that argues that the best way of understanding it is through the lens of “means of production” and thw struggles between different groups bound together as a result of belonging to the same economic class.
Climate change has nothing to do with Marxism and if anything Marx would refute the idea that it drives politics since it doesn’t change the way the ruling class create a surplus.
He also didn’t mention space rockets and satellites, but the the USSR operating under Marxist doctrine still managed to put them into space.
What a silly comment you’ve made Izaak. Stop trying to excuse the desire for total control that the eco-mentalists demand.
Marx also didn’t talk about space rockets and satellites, but the USSR, under Marxism, managed to produce them.
What a silly comment you’ve made Izaak.
Totalitarianism requires an enemy, censorship, and the destruction of what works in the existing economy.
Climate change is the new enemy
Nut Zero is part of the destruction of the existing economy, along with open borders, election fraud, racial division, Critical Racist Theory. attacks on Christian values, attacks on small businesses (lockdowns), leftist brainwashing in schools, including promoting alternate sexual choices over Christian values, etc.
Every leftist decision and plan is obviously intended to weaken and ruin America, and intended to advance the desired fundamental transformation from the current socialism, to fascism, and finally to Marxism in the long run.
The goal of the new Marxism is the same as the goal of the old Marxism, with its class antagonism enemy: Rule by leftist experts, total government control, with minimal personal freedom. Climate change fearmongering and Nut Zero are devious strategies to get there.
The big problem is that people like you WANT this to happen, so you deny that it is happening.
“Totalitarianism requires an enemy,”
Well, no….
(I just typed up a long response (I don’t think Richard would have objected.) but I’d misspelled “Beauracry” I hit correct and it all disappeared.
Long comment short, ““”Totalitarianism requires an enemy.”
It doesn’t require an “enemy” per say. It requires those who lust for power that will exploit any means to attain it.
(Perhaps I’m splitting hairs.)
It really is sad how so many alarmists can only resort in straw man arguments.
It’s all the alarmists have.
It just drives Progressives spare that the rest of us are happy, and can make choices for ourselves. Especially when our individual choices are seen by them to be the “wrong” choices.
Everyone is offended by something, and they are demanding their right to be not offended.
they are demanding their right to be not offended.
What if I’m offended by people not being offended?
The Turdeau government departments won’t censor WUWT content, they will just legislate service providers to cut off Canadian’s ability to view it. Service providers will get a list of which IP addresses people are allowed to receive data from. Just like China and Iran.
The policing of this will likely require a huge government department that will be paid for by fees to either service providers or their customers. Easy-peasey….key words, phrases, and content memes will get you booted…and the appeal committee will be at your expense with incredibly high fees… a new revenue department income stream. The possibilities for control, surveillance, and revenue is staggering.
And, of course, they will require access to every bit of data a user sends or receives. How else do they know if you are complying ? Actually they can already do this….
Ardern tried that during the lock down VPN usage went through the roof
“The harder you squeeze the more the sand runs through your fingers”
This will promote internet skills amongst Canadians
Add in xmpp apps like Telegram and better still Briar and Session
Turd dough has a snowballs chance in hell of blocking stuff if china can’t this looser can’t
2 key encryption systems are already developing Quantum proof encryption
Linux is very usable now days a Linux system on a USB stick called Tails is brilliant just use your VPN to download it so they do not know you have it
And do not forget WUWT is also on GETTR
Your VPN provider has an IP address too. Easily traced….easily rendered inaccessible with one level of know-how above the average IT wonk. Say CGI, one of the world’s largest IT companies, with the Canadian Government their major sugar daddy client, could do this in their sleep. They can record keystrokes and screen clicks and your “encryption” too….
I think that any journalist coming from NZ must be interrogated in entry and exit; a true screening like someone from Irak, etc. But not to know if he is linked with ISIS. To know if he is linked with any organisation that ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers, who comment on their writings, etc.
If so, he should be required to read and learn a killer manifesto. His new org will be required to carry the killer manifesto.
If not, he will be told that he can’t meet with anyone who ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers. He must ask any person he meets whether the person does before doing anything more than asking where the toilet is in a restaurant.
IOW, I ask for total segregation. Anyone from NZ cannot discuss with anyone who ascribe ideology to lone wolf mass killers, only that person is presumed a political opponent.
“This will promote internet skills amongst Canadians”
There’s always a silver lining! 🙂
Why are CIVIL servants allowed to vote?
Good question.
I would like to see (in the USA) a law that forbids anyone who lives off the government teat (aside from Social Security, which most of us have paid into) NOT get the right to vote.
Make it a condition of their request for benefits (or employment).
Limit voting to those who “have skin in the game”.
“Turdeau”
I see what you did there.
OUTSTANDING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eak_ogYMprk
Turdeau believes that classical computers have too little memory, like those poor “budget” smartphones with 6 GB = 48 billions bits, and by stuffing more info per element (per bit), quantum computers will solve that problem with their at most 400 qubits – and nobody knows if 1000 qubits is even doable.
And the whole progressive world, the generation Z, the young people who were “born with computers”, applauded.
The CBC intelligentsia (or “The Independent”) think such melting pot of sciency terms is brillant.
Quantum computing is 10 years away, just like nuclear fusion reactors.
A quantum computer. Look at the beast. It’s huge.
Anyway, here is an article about the possible use of a very “small quantum computer” (only 7 qubits) for chemistry:
https://gmsciencein.com/2017/09/16/ibms-quantum-computer/
Some specific fields may find a use for these computers if they work reliably, at scale, one day.
So I’m definitely now anti QC. I don’t think any investment in QC is by definition wasted. (But fusion as a energy source, notably TOKAMAK, is clearly a pure waste of resources.)
But to believe that QC is to your current computer what the PC/AT at 6 MHz was to the Apollo guidance computer (which is clearly what Trudeau was trying to say)… lol.
Agreed. TOKAMAK is a complete waste of money (except for the possible new knowledge about fusion), and so is the NIF (National Ignition Facility).
All they are doing is building a new steam engine, with no regard for the massive amounts of highly radioactive waste those plants would produce.
There may be no radioactive by-products in the fusion process, but the recovery of the energy (fast neutrons) by stainless steel cooling jackets means embrittleness and ablation, requiring replacement and disposal of same.
This image is sure to be banned:
A pic of Fiddle Castro at a blackface party…
Science and a political agenda so solid that everything contrary must be banned.
We shall see … TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) was originally designed to be bomb-proof. Literally. It does not recognise censorship. If the link doesn’t work just go another way. Some operating systems (eg M$oft Windows) try to pretend otherwise, hence Linux etc.TOR and other “dark-web” entities are best avoided by most of us, but there are VPNs that work to protect against viruses and malware, and if they can do that, they can handle censorship as well.
I once asked (on the phone) a relative which Web browser he used. He said “internet” so I asked again; after I insisted he said “Google”; I asked “you use Google Chrome?”; he said yes.
I asked a friend who had his bank account blocked (after an incorrectly specified operation) and thus had his Internet access blocked if he could access anything on the Internet. He said “nothing is accessible” and I pushed him again and again. He was very assertive and definitive (and unpleasant) while I was on the phone trying my best to help. According to him, everything was blocked: he tested many Web sites.
The case occurred again to him, is Internet access was blocked (same cause: incorrect operation on his account) and he finally admitted that he only ever tested Google Search, as he was trying to enter a name in the search bar.
That’s when I realized that to help people with computers, I needed to acquire (police like) interrogator skills, like doctors learn to.
Conclusion: for many people, the Internet = their search engine; so nothing is more centralized than what they view as “the Internet” or “the Web”.
Around 90% of people believe whatever they are told, based on Aussie vaccination rates, but around 10% of the believers will examine the evidence and change their minds if contrary evidence presents. At least half the remaining believers will pull back if the evidence against their initial belief is overwhelming. Freedom isn’t dead yet.
We have had constant anti nuke propaganda in France. As a child, I remember that every time an “independent group” was quoted by mainstream media about EDF, about CEA, about any incident, it was an anti nuke group.
Yet a lot of the population is pro nuke, and pretty much all of the right and far right voters, plus the communist voters.
To me it proves that long term propaganda is a lot less efficient than people think.
You’d be surprised how many people don’t understand that “the cloud” is actually millions of computers.
When the DNC network was hacked, Trump wanted the server to be analysed by actual officials – not DNC paid hacks.
The pro Hillary shills are replied: iT iSn’T a SeRvEr, It’S oN tHe ClOuD.
They really believe the cloud isn’t made of computer boxes the FBI could seize.
(Not that the FBI would have done anything useful either.)
“The harder you squeeze the more the sand runs through your fingers”
This will promote internet skills amongst Canadians
Add in xmpp apps like Telegram and better still Briar and Session
Turd dough has a snowballs chance in hell of blocking stuff if china can’t this looser can’t
2 key encryption systems are already developing Quantum proof encryption
Linux is very usable now days a Linux system on a USB stick called Tails is brilliant just use your VPN to download it so they do not know you have it
And do not forget WUWT is also on GETTR
Trudeau and his Climate Hosers are making the McKenzie Brothers (“…got the back bacon on the Coleman…it’s a beauty way to go”) look really smart. If 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the USA border why the hell wouldn’t they welcome the chance to spread out a little?
The Canadian government reported another balloon shot down over Ottawa today but it turned out to be Trudeau’s inflated ego.
I heard it was a Valentine from Chairman-for-life Xi to the little Fiddle for all his support!
Sorry, Eric, I had to steal it! I couldn’t help myself! Oh, wait…I did help myself!
The problem isn’t with society, the problem is with the left. Censorship has always been the left’s reaction whenever someone disagrees with them.
Totalitarians on the Left and the Right agree; laughter, humor and truth are dangerous and must be suppressed! When you ridicule them, they respond with “How dare you!”
“The problem isn’t with society, the problem is with the left.”
There it is!
Canada is becoming Cubada,
thanks to Justin TrueDope
My favorite Canadian website, and I hope they don’t get censored, is
Blog – Climate Discussion Nexus
They publish eight short articles every Wednesday and I read and recommend most of them on my own blog. The authors are anonymous but know what they are talking about. I often change the clever article titles to a title that better summarizes the article, often using a sentence from the article
Honest Climate Science and Energy
I subscribed to that website a few months back. An excellent site, very concise and understandable.
As a Canadian, I must ask you to stop posting pictures of our Prime Minister.
It is very upsetting to me and gives me the vapours. I’m sure I’m suffering irreparable harm.
The photo of Mr Trudeau at the top of the article reminds me of photos of Mussolini.
Has some resemblance to a prune too
It was probably meant to.
They’ll be looking at CDN too.
“Why are there such attempts to encroach on our most fundamental liberty, the right to communicate openly with our fellows?”
Exactly, which is why the American bill of rights has freedom of speech as the FIRST amendment.
Why the F are you calling it “Climate Change”? The climate is always changing. You have adopted their propaganda. Ask any scientist if the climate is changing and a rational one will have to say yes. Man Made Global Warming is what they are censoring. Man up! Say it right
That ignorant weasel Trudeau seems not to know about VPN and the ability of the Canadian public to get around censorship.
“ignorant weasel Trudeau”
That should be “ignorant, dangerous weasel, Trudeau”.
There’s a dictator behind that mask.
Now, now. There’s no need to denigrate those small, furry, 4-legged carnivores by equating them with Trudeau.
Let me know the outcome before I move ahead with any plans to visit Canada. I would rather not waste the time in setting up schedules and then have to cancel everything.
Do we also have to sew a badge on our clothing when in public or online? Let me know when the cattle cars start lining up outside the cities.
The Canadian government is always trying to cover up the fact that over the last three decades each one of its climate plans has fallen far short of its goal, and the current one is set to follow suit. So to compensate it talks a good game about taking more climate action, sends among the largest delegations to climate conferences (where they accomplish next to nothing), and makes certain its mouthpiece the CBC presents as constant stream of doomsday scenarios of what will happen unless governments and citizens take the appropriate actions. This means paying higher taxes and accepting more laws and restrictions. Except Canadians aren’t buying any of it because surveys consistently show they feel the brunt of climate action should be borne by governments and businesses, while citizens have few intentions of making any big lifestyle changes to combat any climate problems. Like cold winters, they are prepared to live with them, especially since jobs, the economy, inflation, healthcare, affordable housing, and education, to name a few, take precedence.
The surveys must mean that my fellow Canadians are either freeloaders or morons.
If they believe “government” should pay for climate change, they are freeloaders on the minority of people who bear most of the tax burden…and this includes taxation to service the debt if we finance decarbonization by borrowing, as we will.
If they believe “businesses” should pay, they are morons. Any costs imposed on businesses will be passed on to their customers, or taken out of the wage budget, whenever there is no relative competitive disadvantage to doing so.
Canadians are docile enough to pay carbon taxes on gasoline and heating gas but when the lights and the fridge won’t stay on reliably and private cars become unaffordable because there will never be enough lithium batteries, then they will vote out the current government. For now they are scared to death that the Tory Opposition will cut back on free healthcare and can’t bring themselves to vote for them. But change will come when the baby boomers start to die off.
OK, can someone clarify something for me?
Why would CANADA, of all places, be opposed to “global warming”?
A few thousand people live in the far north on welfare and they are afraid that melting ice and snow will soak through their mukluks. Since indigenous symbolism permeates everything Canadians profess to believe, we profess to be afraid of climate change, even though the obvious fact is that this current mild winter where 80% of Canadians live has been a godsend.
We are very scared that our 10 months of good sleddin’ and 2 months of bad sleddin’, will turn into 2 1/2 or 3 months of bad sleddin’.
With a munificent government lavishing “for your own good” on the public, who needs the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights or any State Constitution if the Government can act as “knowing what is best” according to an ideology shared by a minority of any given population? 🤷♂️ 😒