Omni G

[Omni G @OmniG7]

Canada stands at a perilous crossroads.

The systematic dismantling of independent local journalism through corporate consolidation, the creation of government-dependent media ecosystems, and the aggressive expansion of state surveillance powers under Bill C-22 (the Lawful Access Act, 2026) constitute a coordinated threat to the foundations of liberal democracy. This is not mere policy evolution—it is a deliberate architecture for top-down control that silences accountability, chills dissent, and endangers Charter-protected human rights.

In an era of "news deserts," where communities lack independent watchdogs, and with the CBC tethered to federal funding, Bill C-22 delivers the final blow: mandatory metadata retention on all Canadians, technical backdoors into encrypted services, and ministerial gag orders. This bill must be abolished immediately. It is unconstitutional in design, authoritarian in effect, and incompatible with a free society. Half-measures or amendments will not suffice; the entire framework must be rejected to prevent irreversible damage to privacy, expression, and press freedom.

The passion driving this critique stems from a recognition that lawfare against such measures is essential to safeguard Canada’s sovereignty and the rights of its people.

Corporate consolidation has eviscerated local news across Canada. Between 2008 (When mark was working at our Central Bank) and up too October 2025, 603 local outlets closed in 388 communities, with only 264 new survivors. Millions now live in news deserts or areas of news poverty, especially outside urban cores.

Hedge funds and conglomerates lead the charge. Postmedia Network, controlling over 130 titles, is majority-owned by U.S. hedge fund Chatham Asset Management. This foreign private equity model has triggered mass layoffs, closures, and centralized content mills that prioritize profits over probing local power.

Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian giant with tentacles in infrastructure, real estate, and renewables, exemplifies how concentrated corporate power influences policy and narratives. While not a direct media owner, its economic dominance intersects with government dealings that demand aggressive local scrutiny—scrutiny now largely absent

Empirical evidence is damning. U.S. studies (analogous to Canadian trends) show newspaper closures cause:

6.9% more federal corruption charges
6.8% more indicted defendants
7.4% more cases overall

Municipal borrowing costs spike, government inefficiencies soar, and corporate misconduct penalties rise 15%. Without local investigators exposing zoning scams, procurement kickbacks, and policing abuses, corruption flourishes in the shadows

Canada faces identical risks. Weakened local press leaves communities vulnerable to cronyism, particularly involving powerful conglomerates like Brookfield. The vacuum is filled by national players and Foreign Nation State Actors, with their own agendas.

The CBC/Radio-Canada receives approximately $1.38 billion in annual parliamentary appropriations, with past Liberal boosts pushing it higher before temporary cuts. This creates direct dependency on the governing party.

Critics rightly highlight pro-establishment bias, softer coverage of federal scandals, and alignment with Ottawa priorities. Regional distrust is pronounced in Western Canada. While the CBC provides some national coverage, it cannot replicate granular, adversarial local journalism on municipal contracts or provincial deals. Government "modernization" funding risks turning it into a subsidized narrative engine that crowds out true independents.

This state-aligned media, paired with corporate consolidation, produces a pincer effect: profit-driven chains gut investigations, while taxpayer-funded national media pushes top-down perspectives. Brookfield-style influence operates with reduced fear of exposure, and aggressively partners with Foreign Nation State Actors.

Tabled in March 2026 and currently in committee, Bill C-22 is a repackaged assault on privacy. Part 1 eases police/CSIS access to data. Part 2—the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA)—is the monster: it mandates "electronic service providers" (telecoms, apps, platforms) to:

Retain metadata (who, when, where, how) on all users for up to one year.

Build and maintain interception capabilities, including potential backdoors (with a fig-leaf "systemic vulnerability" exemption that critics say is meaningless due to override provisions).
Comply with secret ministerial orders under gag rules.

Michael Geist, EFF, CCLA, Apple, Google, and over 25 rights groups have eviscerated it. Mandatory blanket retention violates European precedents (struck down as disproportionate) and Canadian Charter s.8 privacy rights. The lowered "reasonable suspicion" threshold for subscriber data clashes with Supreme Court rulings like Spencer.

Backdoors create systemic security risks exploitable by adversaries, and Foreign Aligned Nation State Actors. Oversight is inadequate.

This is the infrastructure of authoritarian control, more so than China or North Korea. In a landscape of news deserts, it equips the state to monitor remaining independent journalists, sources, and critics using encrypted tools for sensitive stories—local corruption, corporate influence, policy failures.

Chilling effects will be devastating: self-censorship becomes rational survival. Combined with CBC funding leverage, it enables hybrid dominance—state narratives amplified nationally, surveillance suppressing alternatives. This is not "modernization for crime-fighting"; it is a digital panopticon that echoes top-down regimes where information is centralized and dissent is tracked preemptively.
Human rights violations are not hypothetical. Bill C-22 risks:

Unreasonable search and seizure (Charter s.8)
Chilled freedom of expression and press (s.2)
Disproportionate impacts on “vulnerable groups”
Mission creep into "misinformation" or political monitoring
Foreign data sharing abuses via Five Eyes

The government’s Charter Statement conveniently sidesteps key provisions like blanket metadata retention. This is willful blindness—or worse.

In Conclusion the Abolishment Bill C-22 to Reclaim Democracy is the only Sane path forward.

The convergence is lethal to democracy, corporate consolidation creates news deserts and enables local corruption; CBC funding introduces state narrative influence; Brookfield-style power thrives in the dark; and Bill C-22 supplies the surveillance tools to lock it all in. This is not democracy—it is managed decline toward centralized authority.

Bill C-22 must be abolished in full. No amendments can salvage a framework built on mass retention and backdoor mandates. Parliament must reject it outright, demand warrant-based, targeted tools with robust independent oversight, enact foreign ownership limits on media, support genuine nonprofit local journalism, and reduce funding strings on public broadcasters to restore independence.

Canadians deserve better than a surveilled information ecosystem where local accountability is extinct and powerful interests operate unchecked.

The fight against this bill is a fight for the soul of our nation—by using every legal and democratic tool available. We must Abolish it now, before the architecture of control becomes permanent.

The future of a free Canada depends on it.

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[Seth Thompson @Setheroo88]

@kmcnam1 It'd be hard to pick one. I'd need to find a way to blend the looks of all 6 into one appearance.

[sudox @kmcnam1]

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[UwU Underground @uwu_underground]

We are officially hosting an UwU Underground cosplay competition this year at defcon.

We will have $ rewards + more

We dont care if your cosplay is Gender swap, amazon ordered, dumpster hot, or god tier build, just show up

Details + cosplay guides drop soon!

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

In case you’re not getting it: AI cybersecurity risk isn’t threat actors using Mythos. It’s your own company being stupid with AI agents.

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

@HumanMythical So many people live in an alternative universe it seems

[Market Mania 🏴‍☠️ @MarketManiaCa]

Canada is experiencing Stagflation.

That's actually worse than a recession.

It's a f*king depression for a debt based economy.

[UwU Underground @uwu_underground]

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[The Bingus Man @NotNordgaren]

Alright, which one of my followers is going to be the one to crack Vanguard at DEF CON?

[Omni G @OmniG7]

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@HimugLamuh @uwu_underground

[Anonymous @4N0NYM0U5_5H311]

The government is literally giving hackers a reason to continue to exist just to piss them the fuck off

[Omni G @OmniG7]

@vxunderground 10/10 research sir!

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Chat, we are cooking.

Previously on Dragon Ball Z, someone DM'd me a spoopy GitHub they found. They asked if it was malware. It was malware.

The GitHub contained HEAVILY obfuscated Lua. The malware payload is using Prometheus Obfuscator.

Upon review, it was determined this malware is SmartLoader. SmartLoader is a malware campaign heavily associated with Rhadamanthys Stealer and StealC Stealer.

SmartLoader is relatively new and is being tracked by AhnLabs, TrendMicro, Hexastrike, McAfee, and the GitHub security team. It first emerged around March, 2024.

SmartLoader is pretty sophisticated. It is multi-staged, uses Polygon Smart Contracts for C2 information retrieval, and despite being Lua, it is also makes usage of NTDLL makes low-level WINAPI function invocations. One interesting attribute also is it programmatically inflates or deflates its file size for pseudo-polymorphism. This is extremely cool.

I mention this, and the whole cookin' thing, because after I made a post complaining about the obfuscated Lua, a very, very, very gifted person in Lua obfuscation and de-obfuscation contacted me and successfully deobfuscated it. I don't know if they want credit or not, because they're so cool and badass, but they're extremely famous in the Roblox hacking scene.

Anyway, the de-obfuscation is so precise it borders on having the actual source code to SmartLoader. I am very happy. I will share it when I am not dealing with my baby.

[Omni G @OmniG7]

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[Garnett Genuis @GarnettGenuis]

Liberals passed a draconian motion to skip ALL stages on Bill C-26, so that the bill could not even be studied or amended at committee. This bill spends $1.7 billion of your money.

I asked the Liberal Housing Minister if he would at least come to committee to answer questions about the bill. He refused.

The authoritarian Carney Liberals are undermining the work of Parliament.

[Omni G @OmniG7]

@JustWantToQ1 @Freedom77015202 Pushed though by foreign intern it sounds like

[Voidwalker @JustWantToQ1]

@Freedom77015202 Name whoever did sign off on it. They need to resign.

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

A big 🇺🇸 tech company approved my use of its advanced AI research model.

The application was basically swearing I’m not Russia. No ID or anything.

Either Russia hasn’t developed the tech to lie, it has the disease Sir Mix-A-Lot had, or “banned” models is marketing hype. 1/3

[Omni G @OmniG7]

@ZackKorman Hell no, it's never that simple. Regardless of what the movies tell you