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Spread the word: Protests against Bill C-9 taking place across Canada on May 1

We’re entering a critical stretch in the fight against the Liberal government’s anti-religion Bill C-9.

This legislation directly threatens our fundamental freedoms of expression and religion, including the ability of Christians to live out their beliefs without fear of government prosecution.

Certain Bible passages will be effectively banned as “hate speech” if C-9 passes in the Senate.

Carney is making annexation more attractive by the day.

I hope the US accepts us as political refugees.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Child social media bans, the Trojan horse for the State surveillance of adults

Child social media bans, the Trojan horse for the State surveillance of adults

AUSTRALIA’S government was the first to introduce a ban on under-age use of social media platforms. Though the ban, introduced in December for under-16s, likely had some positive effects, many teenagers had little difficulty outwitting the systems designed to lock them out.

The whole saga should serve as a warning to other governments of the folly of attempting to micro-manage children’s access to a widely accessible communications technology. Governments need to take a step back and ask themselves how they can support, rather than supplant, the supervisory role of parents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

A New Online Harms Act Would Mean Canadians Talk Less Freely

A New Online Harms Act Would Mean Canadians Talk Less Freely

Once it was confirmed that, for the first time, Canada would be ruled by a majority government achieved through floor-crossing, it didn’t take long for talk of a renewed Online Harms Act to be proposed.

Heritage Minister Marc Miller was approached after his party—thanks to winning three byelections to hold seats it had previously won in last year’s election and gaining five floor-crossing MPs—had turned a minority government into a majority with unfettered legislative power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Because Shut Up!", "Cancel Culture", "Surveillance Society", freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Remember when you, a conservative-leaning, patriotic European, were ridiculed and laughed at for fearing that the game was being rigged, that the Left was coming after you, and that the days in which political institutions at least tried to simulate ideological neutrality were gone? Remember being portrayed by the press as a tin foil hat-wearing simpleton for fearing that Chat Control wasn’t actually—or, at least, not primarily—about destroying the horror of child sexual abuse, but, rather, about social, ideological, and therefore political control? Do you recall being painted as a silly conspiracy theorist for doubting that Marine Le Pen’s judicial prohibition from running for the presidency was really just the impartial courts doing their work? Well, the crumbling German government is tired of keeping up appearances: if it has its way, as in all likelihood it will, right-wing critics of the establishment will soon find it difficult to buy a house or any other form of real estate, for that matter. This will be done, they say, in the name of liberty and democracy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Germany

Toronto police’s new counterterrorism unit aims to tackle increase in hate crimes

Toronto police’s new counterterrorism unit aims to tackle increase in hate crimes

The head of the Toronto Police Service’s new counterterrorism squad says that local police forces have a crucial role to play in pre-empting, investigating and enhancing prosecutions around crimes hatched by extremists.

While terrorism investigations typically fall under the RCMP’s federal policing mandate, Toronto Police last month announced the new unit as part of its response to violence linked to the Middle East conflict. Canada’s largest city is grappling with an increase in alleged hate crimes and extremist violence, which include shootings targeting Jewish schools, synagogues sites and businesses, as well as bullets fired last month at the U.S. consulate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", hate crimes

How Canadian military members violated intelligence-gathering rules during COVID-19

How Canadian military members violated intelligence-gathering rules during COVID-19

Canadian Armed Forces members used their own personal social media accounts, computers and networks at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered information about Canadians, violating intelligence-gathering rules, according to a newly released report.

The internal military report obtained by CBC News provides a new look behind the scenes at how a controversial military operation went so wrong.

“Everything you could imagine in a military operation went wrong in this case,” said national security expert Wesley Wark.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "China eats weird animals disease", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns

‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns

In recent city council meetings in Dunwoody, Georgia, a spokesman for Flock Safety, a Georgia-based firm that provides automated license plate readers, has found himself in the hot seat again.

For two months running, some residents of the affluent north Atlanta suburb in the region’s tech corridor have been demanding an end to the city’s contract with the security firm, which has drawn similar protest from California to New York.

Between a recent change in terms of service that removed a line assuring customers that the company does not own and will not sell customer data – done to eliminate redundancy, Flock says – and videos circulating of hackers showing how they had obtained access to live video feeds from Flock cameras, Dunwoody residents and some members of the city council have been in revolt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Why Carney’s liberals are going to war with the Bible

Why Carney’s liberals are going to war with the Bible

Pastor Derek Reimer is not liberal Canada’s favourite free-speech champion. The Bible-bashing leader of Calgary’s Mission 7 ministry has waged a one-man war on his government’s progressive, LGBTQ-friendly agenda – especially its promotion of transgender rights.

In 2023, he was arrested three times after protesting against “family-friendly” storytime events at Calgary’s public libraries, in which local drag queens read to children. He denounced it all as “pervert grooming sessions”, and told a librarian that if she carried on “corrupting kids”, he would post her details online. He also quoted from Deuteronomy 22:5, which states: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak.”

So far, his protests have earned him a conviction for harassment, more than 100 days in jail, and limited sympathy from the wider public – who, whatever their views on transgender issues, often see his methods as extreme.

Yet in recent months, his name has frequently been cited in a growing row over freedom of speech – centred around a planned new law that would remove the right of religious activists to quote scripture as a defence against hate crime charges.

(more…)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, hate crimes

UK Police Scale Back ‘Hate’ Investigations

Britain’s Labour home secretary has confirmed that police will no longer investigate most alleged ‘hateful’ comments, although concerns remain over existing database records and whether the new approach still risks undermining free speech.

The recording of so-called ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHI)—statements believed to be “motivated by prejudice” but that don’t meet the criteria for criminal offences—has been under fire for some time, especially following high-profile cases, such as the one involving comedy writer Graham Linehan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

CARPAY: Ottawa froze protesters’ bank accounts — now Ottawa wants your phone records

Like many expansions of government power, Bill C-22 (dubbed the Lawful Access Act) arrives dressed in reassuring bureaucratic language. It speaks soothingly about “facilitating access” to “basic information” and “modernizing” certain provisions respecting the timely gathering of data. In reality, this legislation represents a significant step toward building the machinery of a surveillance state in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Police force that sent dozen officers to throw IT boss in a cell over blog post criticising senior officers is being sued

A police force that paid £20,000 compensation to a couple arrested over a school WhatsApp group is being sued by a company director thrown in a cell over a blog post.

A dozen Hertfordshire officers arrived at the home of IT boss Sam Smith after the force received complaints from two Facebook group members.

Mr Smith’s house was searched on March 8 last year, his devices were seized and he spent a night in a cell at Hatfield police station.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", WTF?

Christians warned to expected increased hostility, persecution after bill passes in Canada

Canada’s top pro-life group, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), is warning that the passage of a Liberal bill criminalizing religious expression and belief when quoting parts of the Bible, including about homosexuality and gender, will lead to the “actual persecution” of Christians.

In comments to LifeSiteNews, CLC said the passage of Bill C-9 earlier this week is a warning to Canadians of faith to “prepare for increasing hostility.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Christian Persecution

Canadians face ‘tsunami’ of transnational repression in coming years because Trump is Hitler cyber-research group says

Canada and the rest of the democratic world are facing a “tsunami” of transnational and digital repression with the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S., the arrival of artificial intelligence and a softening of attitudes on human rights, according to a respected Canadian cyber-research group.

The director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy issued the chilly warning in a presentation to be delivered Monday to a House of Commons committee studying transnational repression.

I agree technology inches us closer to a surveillance state every day but The Munk School suffers compulsive onanism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

John Carpay: Liberals have Canada leading the West in state surveillance

Among the western democratic powers, Canada is quickly emerging as a leader in internet regulation and state surveillance.

The federal government, whose efforts are encouraged by a mostly compliant public, is driving more and more of the human experience into a digital realm. This digital realm is a vast infrastructure of legislation, law enforcement and corporate partnerships in which people are becoming the objects of government analysis, modelling and manipulation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What Kind of Access to Private Data Would Security Agencies Gain With Bill C-22?

Lying Liberal DEI MP

The Liberal government is making a second attempt to establish a legal regime that would allow security agencies to more easily identify users of cellphone and internet services and access certain account data.

Law enforcement has welcomed the move as necessary to conduct investigations in the modern world, while civil liberties advocates are raising privacy concerns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government