Richard Underhill

Juno winning sax man, Shuffle Demon, cyclist. My music here! &

[Mitchell Tremblay @ODSPoor]

This 'social media ban' is simply gatekeeping those without ID like the most vulnerable homeless population, built into the bill is policing of language, what forments hate, what counts as extremism? This bill will be remembered as the greatest single loss of freedoms in decades. They will know your name, address and other data, which will be used for surge pricing or invasive policing by already corrupt forces.

Austrailia had no luck, it was all a scam. I used to go to an internet cafe as a homeless teen to access services, can you imagine banning a young mother who wants help, or someone who is isolated and needs to get help anonymously? Or all the freedom fighters who stay anonymous for fear of their own families being targeted by the right wing conmen and the neoliberal social murderers?

The second I can't access the Internet because I lack a form of ID required by a foreign company will be my I told you so, too little and too late. Being homeless 7 times and possibly again this summer, I've lost my wallet multiple times to theft or having to abandon a shelter.

Mayors, Prime Ministers and Premiers are all failing to protect the most vulnerable and it's now a culling, democide, social murder of the homeless, addicted, the workplace injured and people with disabilities or seniors. They are murdering us while you eat gaslights for breakfast...

[🏴‍☠️CyberTechWolf🏴‍☠️ @CyberTechWolff]

Supreme Court ruled banning 16s from social media as unconstitutional and your Satanic government assumes they can "bypass" the judges order.

[Leigh Beadon @leighbeadon]

This is an important point that too many people overlook even when opposing the bill. It's popular to say "of course social media is bad for kids but this has too many additional impacts on adults". But no: kids have rights too. A blanket ban is not so easily justifiable.

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

This is Yegor. He co-founded a tech company in Canada. They employ people here. Their mission is to protect people's privacy and security, including dissidents and activists who fear repression. Soon, he will not be able to do that from Canada due to Bill C-22 Lawful Access.

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

A statement from the CEO of Windscribe.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Wow. I saw this piece shared by a Palantir employee & assumed it was internal company propaganda.

Turns out it’s a Spectator piece. Same difference, it turns out.

[Lesley Peterson @culturetripper]

Yes, the Toronto islands are one of this city’s top natural assets. A gorgeous, central recreational attraction for tourists & city residents alike! Let’s keep it that way. #NoJets

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Being called a thug and the worst person ever to run for office by Donald Trump might be the highest compliment I have ever received.

[Editorial & Political Cartoons @EandPCartoons]

Matt Golding #AI

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

I think it’s fucking insane that no one making our laws sees any potential problems with a single citizen possessing more wealth than 176 of 195 countries

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
https://t.co/s3LE8vedNi

[Stephen Tustin @stustin]

Great, but here's the bottom line, the cut-to-the-chase: No expansion. None. Never. There, I fixed it for TPO. #waterfront @liberal_party @MarkCarney #Ontario #Toronto #airport

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.

Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.

I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.

This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.

We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Government officials say they plan to start the Bill C-34 kids’ social media ban soon after the bill passes. But their plan would sideline standards for age verification and a mandated privacy review just as millions are required to verify their age.
https://t.co/3mS1BqKEXv

[Jeepers H. Crackers @bonedryankles]

What's at stake if we expand Billy Bishop Airport?
- 14,000 new homes for 10s of 000s of new residents
- 100,000 jobs for skilled trades to build over decades
- $13,000,000,000 into the economy
- a brand new neighbourhood surrounded by park directly on our waterfront

[onion person @CantEverDie]

it continuously stuns me how rightwingers don't know how anything works at all on a systematic level so they assume nothing should be done about anything ever

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

The amount of fake glee over a midwit incel becoming wealthier than most countries despite never inventing a thing is suffocating.

Trillionaires are an obscenity on humanity. It is biblical depravity.

We must never again allow this type of parasite to take root in society.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇫🇷🇮🇱 France’s foreign disinformation watchdog says it suspects Israeli influence firm BlackCore of carrying out digital interference operations not only in France’s March local elections, but also in New York City’s 2025 mayoral race and elections in Scotland, as well as in Angola and Togo.

French authorities previously linked BlackCore to an online smear campaign targeting three pro-Palestine candidates from the France Unbowed (LFI) party. Officials now say their investigation indicates the group deployed similar online influence operations in multiple countries.

France has asked Israel for explanations and assistance in determining who may have been behind the alleged campaign. Reuters reports it remains unclear who directed the alleged interference.

🔗 Haaretz’s story is linked below. Video report from France 20h is ⤵️

[Gaibrie Stephen @SGaibrie]

All for protecting kids online but what is the age verification mechanism?

Because if every Canadian has to submit government ID or undergo facial recognition to use social media, that's a de facto national digital identity system being built through a child safety bill.

[Corruptario @corruptario]

As we have written about, Fortress Am-Can, which Carney and Ford are now calling Fortress North America, envisions essentially rolling up the Canadian military into the US military, and increased coordination between Cdn and US police forces.

It's well underway.