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🇨🇦 Freedom of Speech is your right. Beware of those who propose to limit free speech.

[ProCanadian 🐭🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧☮️💔🆘 @ProCanadian5]

Political prisoners in Canada update 👇 from Gord Magill arrested in 2022 in Alberta at the Coutts border during the truckers protest. Their arrests and charges were used to justify the invoking of the emergencies act(basically martial law in Canada) which has since been ruled by the courts as unjustified and illegal, yet this persecution continues while murderers and violent criminals are given house arrests.

[Gord ‘Human Truck Driver Respecter’ Magill @GordMagill]

It was a busy week in The Maple Gulag with ongoing persecutions of Tamara Lich + Chris Barber in Ottawa, but this graffiti reminds us that Tony Olienick, the last of The Coutts Four, remains a Political Prisoner, which should make every Canadian ashamed to be one.

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[nisten🇨🇦e/acc @nisten]

@tobi even after any further ammendment it will still break HIPAA/PIPEDA for any tyme of medical app requirement lol.
Whomever worked on it is objectively incompetent and I homenstly think it;s ground for our public safety minister to resign over blatantly lying to all canadians

[tobi lutke @tobi]

C-22 is a mistake. Not one part of it, the entire direction. ( Same for C-9 )

https://t.co/D5apl9nwvF

[Frank Caputo @FrankCaputoKTN]

UNACCEPTABLE.

We are studying Bill C-22 - a very contentious bill in Parliament.

During Committee study now, we learned that briefs submitted to members TWO WEEKS ago have not yet been translated. Problem: amendments to the bill were due YESTERDAY.

How can we do our jobs?

[Great Canadian Moose @Great_Cdn_Moose]

LISTEN UP ONTARIO:
Something big is happening in Ontario, and almost no one is talking about it.
Premier Ford has quietly passed a law that opens the door to water privatization across Ontario - and he's hoping you won't notice.

The Water and Wastewater Public
Corporations Act lets the government seize your local water system and hand it over to a for-profit corporation without your consent.
History is clear: when for-profit corporations control our water systems, the results are disastrous:

Bigger bills!
Bad service!
Dirty water!

Water is a human right not a commodity. It's not too late to stop this.
& Tell Premier Ford our water is NOT for sale. Take action now!

[Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella @Fynnderella1]

Don’t miss tomorrow’s Senate Hearing with @SenRonJohnson and testimony from many including @DrAseemMalhotra
Covered by @BrokenTruthTV

[Wiretap Media @WiretapMediaCa]

💥INSANE: In 2025, 126,000 skilled Canadian tradespeople were left unemployed — while the federal government issued 125,000 Temporary Foreign Worker permits to migrants for skilled trades.

"The great replacement is a conspiracy theory."

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

This govt is jamming Bill C-22 Lawful Access through Parliament, undermining democratic fundamentals. Witnesses are being heard while the door has already closed for proposed amendments. Parliamentarians haven't been provdied with briefs from witnesses. https://t.co/qMUh87542A

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

Read more on our site.
https://t.co/wTVKHMS1zg

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

FFS .. a freedom of information request reveals that UK justice ministers and the tech sector have had a cosy little meeting to discuss ‘tech justice’.

The summary of that chat is using robots to manage prisoners, implanting devices under people's skin to track their behaviour, (er what about bodily autonomy?) and computers to 'predict' what crime we may commit in future.'

Brilliant … now all we need is to get Ai to predict criminals using DNA at birth and imprison all dodgy DNA babies!

Can we please just stick to the basics and start arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning the right people instead!

[ProCanadian 🐭🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧☮️💔🆘 @ProCanadian5]

@LDBildy Perhaps this amendment will result in the wider senate quashing the bill entirely.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THIS IS THE ENTIRE AI INDUSTRY'S NIGHTMARE IN ONE QUOTE.

An author suing OpenAI says AI companies didn't just buy books.

They allegedly downloaded them from pirate sites.

Then, according to his claim, stripped away copyright pages and ISBN information before feeding the material into AI models.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

"For those of you who think that digital ID sounds convenient, let me warn you what happened in India."

"In India, the government linked people's food rations, pensions, and even hospital access to a digital ID system."

"The problem? Criminal networks learned how to hack and manipulate biometric data. When fingerprints didn't match, or when hackers swapped someone's identity, people were locked out of survival."

"Entire families were denied food. In just one state, at least two dozen people starved to death after being cut off from rations."

"This is the real danger of digital ID. It's not about safety or protecting children. It's about control."

"Once everything you need to live—food, money, medicine—is tied to a single ID, all it takes is an error, or a criminal, to cut you off."

[Kris Constable @cqwww]

Over 20 years ago I met a guy named Vince in Victoria, B.C. who shared a crazy story about the police arresting him, with no miranda rights, and no right to a phone call or a lawyer, and he was later force drugged by the Canadian (B.C.) government.

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

Thank you, @SecKennedy, for telling the truth about the widespread government lies and corruption during the COVID pandemic.

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

@CBAnatmag @signalapp @CFE_TMU @CMPAConline @OpenMediaOrg Sorry, hit "post" before tagging @CDNConstFound.

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

Tune in tomorrow as the #SECU committee has agreed to another hearing on Bill C-22 Lawful Access. Some great organizations to hear from, including @CBAnatmag, @signalapp, @CFE_TMU, @CMPAConline and @OpenMediaOrg. https://t.co/SM0JK6Gjfd

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Bodycam footage of the arrest of Henry Nowak, who had been stabbed moments prior by Vickrum Digwa

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

.@signalapp and @OpenMediaOrg among the witnesses appearing tomorrow on Bill C-22 as part of a newly added hearing on the lawful access bill.
https://t.co/qlv9lAvZZg

[Donald Welsh @DonaldWelsh16]

Great rant highlighting how Bill Gates rewards his syncopates in public health…and in the process destroys academic credibility.