Tech companies on Bill C-22
• Shopify @Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke @tobi warned that Bill C-22 could become a “death blow to Canadian tech viability” and make Canada “essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”
• Signal's @signalapp VP of Strategy & Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari stated, "In its current form, Bill C-22 would convert the everyday tools Canadians rely on into a sprawling, insecure surveillance apparatus."
• Apple @Apple Senior Director of User Privacy & Child Safety Erik Neuenschwander warned that Bill C-22 allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products - “something Apple will never do.”
• Google's @Google Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Jeanette Patell warned that Bill C-22 “goes well beyond lawful access regimes in other G7 democracies, and risks creating new surveillance infrastructure that would introduce serious security vulnerabilities, undermine user trust and hinder our ability to innovate and offer pro-privacy technologies.”
• Meta @Meta warned that Bill C-22 could require companies to build or maintain capabilities that weaken encryption and that could force providers to "install government spyware directly on their systems."
• Proton VPN @ProtonVPN General Manager David Peterson warned that complying with Bill C-22 could conflict with Swiss and European privacy obligations. He said, “Complying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence...We’ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them.”
• NordVPN @NordVPN stated that “there isn’t a scenario in which we would compromise our no-logs architecture or encryption protections" and that it would consider limiting or removing its Canadian presence.
• ExpressVPN @expressvpn warned, “Legislation that mandates data retention or technical access, however well-intentioned, undermines the security that millions of users rely on."
• DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo stated that "if the bill passes, we will be forced to stop offering our VPN in Canada."
• Windscribe @windscribecom stated, “...they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens."
Privacy protects citizens. It also protects innovation.
Note: These statements were made before Bill C-22 was amended on June 18, 2026. In our view, those amendments did not meaningfully address concerns raised by tech companies, privacy experts, or civil liberties organizations. The companies above are free to tell Canadians whether the amendments have changed their assessment.
Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @RonDeibert, @OpenMediaOrg and @cancivlib - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22.
They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:
- force companies to keep metadata for up to a year, making a vast trove of personal information vulnerable to leaks and hacks
- make encryption meaningless by creating backdoors in software that allow police and gov. agencies to scoop up our personal data and messages
- give US police and spy agencies direct access to Canadians’ personal data without warning or oversight
So what is the Carney government doing? Ramming C-22 through in the dying hours of the session.
Meanwhile, Minister Solomon offers a retail sales pitch for potential powers of a new regulator that won’t even exist for at least 18 months.
Instead of just banning surveillance pricing and protecting us from other forms of digital spying and extraction.
Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.
People who say "Zionism is just the belief that Jews should have a homeland" are hilarious. Zionism isn't some abstraction; we can all see its material manifestations with our own eyes. We can all see that Zionism means genocide, apartheid, and nonstop wars and abuse.
This isn't some kind of theoretical debate where we all get to have our own opinions about what Zionism is and what it entails. It's 2026, not 1890. The facts are in and the case is closed, kids. This is what Zionism is. This is the only Zionism in existence. What you see is what you get. And what you see is quantifiably one of the most evil things happening on our planet.
Syria became a state in 1946.
Lebanon became a state in 1943.
Jordan became a state in 1946.
Iraq became a state in 1932.
All of them carved from the same Ottoman collapse.
All of them without prior independent statehood in the modern sense.
All of them recognized as legitimate states with legitimate populations whose rights no serious person disputes.
Palestine was on the same map.
The same Ottoman province system.
The same League of Nations mandate architecture.
The same post-war decolonization moment.
The only difference between Palestine and every neighboring state that successfully achieved independence is that Palestine's territory was committed to a different political project before its population could exercise self-determination.
"There was never a Palestinian state" describes the outcome of that commitment.
It does not justify it.
If you analyze ‘America’ politically, you’re making an error, unwittingly. ‘America’ is not a polity, people’s opinions have nothing to do with policy, it’s a business, pathologically. The war business is booming when bombs are flying and the healthcare business is making a killing when people are dying and the media business is talking money when they’re lying.
Understanding ‘America’ through its politics is like trying to understand Coca-Cola through its advertising. Coke isn’t trying to make ‘moments’ or ‘memories’ or ‘open happiness’ or anything so humane, they’re a corporation, do I need to explain? In the same way, ‘America’ isn’t trying to deliver ‘human rights’ or ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’, are you insane? They’re all just lying in order to sell you something. Like Michael Corleone said, it’s not political, it’s strictly business.
III. The receipts of catching the mouse.
Roughly 42,000 kilometers of high-speed rail. The United States, in the same period, built less than 1,000 km. Roughly 54% of global crude steel production. The world’s largest shipbuilding sector — roughly half of global tonnage launched in 2024. BYD overtaking Tesla in Q4 2023. CATL alone at ~37% of global EV battery cells. The world’s largest port infrastructure — Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Tianjin, Guangzhou. Roughly 80% of global solar panel production. A domestic semiconductor program producing 7nm-class output under sanction.
These are receipts. They are not narratives. They are not presentations. They are not slide decks. They are objects in the world that did not exist in 1978 and do exist in 2026.
The CCP did not run a Marxism seminary. The CCP ran a factory.
IV. The Soviet-American identity at the regime level.
Russia in 2026 and the United States in 2026, at the level of state apparatus and elite institutional class, are the same kind of country. Presentation-culture. The Soviet Politburo and the contemporary American institutional priesthood are the same archetype with different scripture. Davos. Aspen. Sun Valley. The Council on Foreign Relations. The Valdai Discussion Club. Both nations’ regimes spend enormous amounts of public time talking about how great they are while losing operationally to the doing-cultures.
The Soviet Union pretended to be a workers’ paradise while the shelves were empty. The contemporary American regime pretends to be an innovator’s paradise while individual American operators source from Yiwu because the domestic supplier base has been hollowed out. Same architecture. Same failure mode. Different scripture, same deck.
A clarification. the kitchen has documented elsewhere that American individual operators — the Apple supply chain manager, the Tesla parts buyer, the Amazon seller, the Etsy shop sourcing from Zhejiang, the engineer doing red-line markups on Chinese factory drawings — are doers. That is the people. The people are doers. The American regime — the state apparatus, the institutional priesthood, the seminary — is a Soviet-style talker culture wearing different vestments.
The people built the country. The seminary now talks about how great the country is.
V. Iran also belongs in the doer category.
Forty-six years under increasing sanctions. The Shahid drone program, the missile force, the domestic pharmaceutical capacity, the nuclear program, the IRGC operational architecture, the Houthi-Hezbollah-Hashd-IRGC network across four countries, the Strait of Hormuz closure mechanism that the kitchen has been auditing for eighty days. Iran is under maximum sanctions and is producing kinetic systems that have shut down the world’s primary oil chokepoint.
When Ghalibaf da Gangsta announces the toll booth at Hormuz, he is announcing an operational fact, not a presentation about an aspirational outcome. The toll booth is collecting.
Iran is the only country in the Middle East that runs an actual state. The others run press offices.
Very much appreciate this timely, comprehensive letter to PM Carney from 190 former Canadian diplomats. They write with a "strong sense of urgency about the need for immediate action, in concert with our European partners, to halt the Israeli government's stated intention to annex the West Bank; and the need to bring an end to its daily attacks against innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon."
Their thoughtful recommendations for immediate action by the Canadian government:
- inform the Israeli government of Canada's intention to undertake an immediate review of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), including the application of rules of origin to exclude coverage of products from the illegal settlements; - notify Israel of Canada's intention to terminate the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership MOU within six months, should the government continue to support the expansion of settlements in the West Bank;
- expand economic and travel sanctions to include any Israeli cabinet member, member of the Knesset, government official, settler, or organization that promotes violence against Palestinians or the seizure of their land;
- take legal action against Canadian companies that bid on or participate in construction projects in the settlements;
- announce Canada's unequivocal support for, and implementation of, decisions and actions taken by the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice regarding allegations of war crimes and genocidal acts in the region;
- strengthen bilateral relations with the State of Palestine including increased support to the Palestinian Authority and other civil institutions through training and technical assistance with a particular focus in the areas of governance, finance, the judiciary and security;
- appoint a Special Envoy to coordinate with international partners in addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to advance support for a negotiated twostate solution with a requirement to report semi-annually to Parliament on the situation;
- accelerate efforts by the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of all entities supporting illegal settlements or facilitating recruitment or funding for the Israel Defence Forces;
- collaborate with international partners to support non-governmental organizations providing protective accompaniment and legal advocacy to Palestinians facing settler violence in the West Bank; and
- advocate with partners to lift Israel's restrictions on Non-Governmental Organizations and journalists in Gaza to ensure effective aid delivery and independent reporting.
https://t.co/1Au642Dgws
The current situation regarding Iran is increasingly unstable. Trump is stuck and has no way out. China refused to help. Iran refuses to budge:
1) The administration is split. The Pentagon and others favor renewed strikes to force concessions; others want to stick with diplomacy. Trump hasn't decided.
2) Trump's rhetoric may be backfiring. Analysts argue his insistence on framing any outcome as a total US victory makes a deal harder. Former negotiator Rob Malley: no country can accept being seen as defeated. Tehran reportedly reads his unpredictability as desperation and believes it can wait him out.
3) With November midterms approaching and polls showing the Iran war hurting his support, advisers and Wall Street contacts are pushing Trump to wrap things up.
4) The NYT reports the most intensive US-Israeli preparations since the ceasefire, possibly within a week. Options include special forces on the ground against deeply buried nuclear material at Isfahan, with military officials acknowledging "high risk of casualties."
5) The humiliation trap is mutual. Iran can't be seen as defeated, but Trump can't be seen as backing down either. Both are locked in by domestic audiences, pointing toward a frozen conflict with periodic flare-ups rather than a deal.
6) The situation Trump is constrained by midterms and impatience; Iran's leadership thinks in years. The side that needs a deal sooner pays more, and Iran has drawn out talks before, going back to the JCPOA.
7) The renewed strike option is not a good one. Strikes may accelerate, not prevent, weaponization. The lessons of North Korea (kept the bomb, survived), Libya (gave it up, regime fell), and Iraq (didn't have one, regime fell) push Iran toward the bomb if it concludes survival depends on it.
8) Air strikes alone likely can't finish the job. The ground-forces option exists because Isfahan's enriched uranium is buried too deep for bombing, and ground operations risk casualties plus broader combat with Iranian forces.
9) The Pakistan channel is plausible but limited. Islamabad has its own tensions with Tehran (including the 2024 cross-border strikes) and its own agenda with Washington. Sources claiming "positive progress" to Saudi media have reasons to shape the narrative.
In sum, the situation continues to favor Iran. They have a longer timeline and more importantly, a pathway to their main goal (survival) that is clear. Wait it out. The US does not have any clear path to its goals of stopping the nuclear program and opening the Straits of Hormuz, and its timeline is shorter. The longer this lasts, the more damage will be done to the global economy, and without achieving anything meaningful.
Leaked Footage from Israeli Airforce Shows IDF Apache Helicopter Firing on its OWN Citizens at Supernova Music Festival on October 7
“The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian.”
[…] “The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.” Middle East Eye
@VanessaBeeley
It’s still too early to tell what has been the real outcome of the confrontation between Iran and US forces near the Strait of Hormuz, but two things are clear:
1) Iran’s current strategy, while nearly optimal, is unstable, just like its strategy of nuclear ambiguity was, which led to the current conflict.
2) Just like the run-up to the war, the optimality of position is incentivizing Iran to not respond forcefully enough to the US military coercion to open the Strait.
First, let’s recount why Iran’s current strategy is nearly optimal: Iran's current plan seems to be: avoid challenging the ceasefire, engage in negotiations to buy time for oil shortages to bite, skirt the blockade without breaking it, and use the blockade as justification for keeping the Strait closed to the US and its allies.
This strategy is nearly optimal because it avoids death and destruction, it buys time for the physical shortages of oil to kick in to force the US hand while keeping Iran’s economy going. It’s not perfectly optimal because as I explained in my previous posts, it’s leaving the narrative in paper markets in Trump’s hands, which gives him room to maneuver (see tweets 1, 2, and 3 below).
But it’s not a stable position to be in, just like the nuclear threshold state wasn’t.
In the nuclear matter, Iran’s position seemed optimal: not a nuclear state, but close enough to become one if need be. But the position wasn’t stable. Iran created enough incentive and excuse for its adversaries to attack it, but it didn’t create enough deterrence to prevent those attacks.
In the Strait of Hormuz matter, Iran’s position is nearly optimal, but Iran is making a fundamental mistake. It assumes the US will accept defeat and either accept Iran’s terms or simply be forced to leave the war because of the economic pressure.
Iran went into the Islamabad negotiations with the mentality that it has won the war and Trump had accepted its terms as basis for negotiations.
But there’s a difference between a) an adversary being militarily defeated, b) the adversary internally accepting that defeat, and c) the adversary being openly willing to acknowledge the defeat.
Military gains are converted into political wins only after step c. Until the defeated side is willing to acknowledge defeat, either through written instruments or leaving the field, it will keep searching for ways to reverse the battlefield outcome.
Steps b and c have not happened for Trump. They also have not happened, and will not happen for a long time, for most of the US foreign policy establishment.
Accepting defeat and publicly acknowledging it is not just a matter of national reckoning. It’s a matter of the status of the US in the world, and its relationships with its orbital states.
This means that unless Iran creates an unambiguous deterrence, the US will keep trying to force open the Strait.
Consider the sequence of events:
blockade in the gulf of Oman => US destroyers forcing their way into the Persian Gulf => US destroyers forcing their way out and launching Tomahawk missiles against Iran’s coastline.
Compare this to an earlier sequence of events: Soleimani assassination => bombing of the Iranian consulate => attacks on Iranian territory => 12-day war => current war.
In each case, failure to deter unambiguously at the early stage has led to further escalation.
Compare this with Ansarullah in Yemen whose demonstrated resolve and capabilities established a clear deterrent against the US.
(Western establishment analysts working from US-aligned premises have recently reached the same diagnosis about the lead-up to this war: Iran's failure was insufficient deterrence. See, e.g., Grajewski & Panda in Foreign Affairs and Eveleth in Foreign Policy.)
This is why, if you look at the US MOU draft proposal, it seeks to remove Iran’s main deterrent — the HEU and enrichment, because when the deterrent is gone, coming back will be easier.
Deixa eu explicar uma coisa básica.
Não existe um “direito de um Estado existir”. Estados existem. E ponto.
A própria ordem internacional admite mudanças, dissoluções e transformações de Estados. Isso já aconteceu várias vezes na história.
Portanto, defender a desconstituição de um Estado não é, por si só, ilegal.
Um exemplo simples: pessoas que defenderam a dissolução da União Soviética estavam defendendo o fim de um Estado. Isso não significava ódio aos povos eslavos, não era racismo “antieslavo”, não era perseguição étnica. Era uma posição política sobre uma estrutura estatal.
Inclusive, há diversos setores sionistas que defendem abertamente o fim do Irã, muitas vezes com discursos que envolvem guerra total e até uso de armas nucleares, o que implicaria a morte em massa da população civil.
Agora, quando alguém defende a desconstituição do Estado de Israel, isso não implica, necessariamente, em matar ou expulsar os israelenses que vivem lá. O que se propõe, na maior parte dos casos, é a substituição por um Estado palestino democrático, no qual esses mesmos indivíduos possam viver como cidadãos, com direitos garantidos.
Isso não é crime. E não é antissemitismo.
Ah, mas “os israelenses não querem”. Certo. Os palestinos que viviam naquele território também não queriam a imposição de um Etnoestado estruturado majoritariamente por pessoas que sequer nasceram ali. Tampouco aceitaram a apropriação de cidades de maioria árabe e a expulsão de grande parte da população, que permanece refugiada até hoje.
Então não existe essa ideia de que a autodeterminação de um povo possa se sobrepor à de outro. Se houve violação do direito de autodeterminação palestino, não se pode tratar o processo como se fosse legítimo de forma incontestável.
Por isso, não há nenhum crime em defender a desconstituição de um Estado enquanto estrutura política. Isso faz parte do debate político e jurídico internacional.
E ponto.
The Western colonial empire is dying in the very cities where it was born. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney.
You can see it in rents, in food prices, in the price of a doctor's visit, in the closed factory at the end of every regional town.
The headlines call it recession.
But its actually the empire eating itself, because the outside has stopped feeding it.
For 300 years the deal was to extract from the Global South, subsidize the Global North. Cheap cotton, cheap rubber, cheap oil, cheap tin, cheap cobalt, cheap labor, cheap everything. The Western worker was poor by global standards but rich by global standards at the same time, because the rest of the world was bleeding out so they didn't have to.
That deal is over.
Because the people doing the bleeding stopped agreeing.
The Gulf states have quietly dropped petrodollar exclusivity. China and Russia settle in yuan and ruble. India buys Russian oil in rupees. Brazil and Argentina trade in local currency. The African Sahel kicked French troops out of 4 countries in 24 months. Niger nationalized its uranium. Burkina Faso is mining its own gold. Mali built a refinery for the first time in its national history.
None of this was supposed to happen.
It is happening anyway.
I think most Western analysts cannot see this because they were trained to look upward at presidents and downward at GDP, and the actual movement is sideways across capital flows.
Notice how the headline countries, the US, UK, France, keep losing wars they pretended to win.
Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Niger. Ukraine.
The military is still the loudest instrument in the toolkit. It is also the only one left that still works, not by serving its colonial states, but by fattening private sector profits.
When a hegemon's only working tool is the gun, and the gun keeps missing, that is what decline looks like in real time.
Now, the toolkit the West built to control the colonies is being repointed at its own population.
Debt traps. Criminalization. Prison labor. Surveillance. Mass eviction. Drug-economy management.
Engineered scarcity.
Permanent renter classes.
Two-tier policing.
The same playbook that flattened Congo, Indonesia, Honduras and the Philippines is now being applied to Detroit, Marseille, Manchester, Newcastle. The boot is the same boot.
This is the part that should make a working-class American or a British retiree or a single mother extremely angry, and unfortunately not at the people they're being told to be angry at.
Migrants did not cause this.
Welfare recipients did not cause this.
China did not cause this.
The class that owns the boot caused this, and it owns the boot in every country including yours.
Some of you might call this overblown.
You might say the West is still rich, still strong, still the world's reserve currency, still where the world's billionaires want to live.
All true. For now.
Empires take a long time to fall, and the rich exit the building decades before the lights go out.
They have already exited.
Watch where the wealth is parked. Not in the country it was extracted from. The capital has gone where the growth is, which is not London and not New York.
It is Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Jakarta, Shenzhen, Sao Paulo. The owner class moved their money. Then they will move their passports. The flag will be the last thing they put down.
For the everyday person in the West, the next 20 years is going to be a managed contraction.
Real wages flat or falling. Public services rationed. Pensions clipped. Insurance unaffordable. Housing impossible.
They will tell you it is the migrants, then China, then the climate, then a new virus, then the algorithm.
It will be none of those.
For the everyday person in the Global South, the next 20 years is messier but freer. New patrons, new dependencies, but also new bargaining power. The petrodollar is no longer the only door. BRICS is no longer aspirational. The IMF is no longer the only lender. Africa is no longer waiting for permission. Latin America is choosing its own debtors.
I do not think this is a happy story for everyone.
Multipolarity is not peace. It is a different kind of pressure, distributed differently, with the violence rotating to new edges.
But the colonial age that started in 1492 is closing. Not gracefully. Not neatly. Not with a flag-lowering ceremony.
But forcefully.
Because capital dictates.
And it is dictating that the Western colonial empire is over.
The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts.
History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization.
It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.
Israeli soldiers beat, strangled, and tortured 13-year-old Palestinian child Thaer Hamayel after forcing him to kiss the Israeli flag during detention in the occupied West Bank.
Thaer returned from Israeli prison with his head shaved, carrying memories of humiliation, fear, and torture instead of childhood.
🔴 They called a child “a terrorist”
📌 Israeli soldiers beat and strangled 13-year-old Thaer Hamayel during detention.
📌 Blindfolded and tightly handcuffed, he was dragged between prisons for hours.
📌 Soldiers repeatedly called the child “H@mas” and “terrorist” while humiliating and threatening him.
“They told me, "kiss the flag if you don’t want to be beaten"”
🔴 This is childhood under occupation
📌 Israeli soldiers shaved the child’s head after detaining and torturing him inside Israeli prisons.
📌 At only 13 years old, Thaer returned home speaking about torture, humiliation, and fear instead of childhood.
@XH_Lee23 Love all the brainwashed takes on here about exploding Chinese batteries when those American and European batteries are made in the same Chinese factories.
Copied from a friend’s page:
A serious and deeply shocking UN report, jointly prepared by five prominent international organizations (intergovernmental organizations) in cooperation with three Israeli NGOs, is facing pressure, particularly from the US and the West, to prevent its release. Among the most prominent points in this "prisoner report" are:
1. 112 cases of rape were documented within Israeli prisons against female prisoners from Gaza. Three of these cases involved virgins, and the rapes were gang-raped. One of these women was transferred under international supervision to a secret location and is now pregnant.
2. Israeli forces executed 87 Gazan detainees inside their prisons by shooting them directly in the head with pistols and dumped their bodies in various areas of Gaza's streets.
3. Torture in the prisons is barbaric and insane, and what is happening is more horrific than what occurred in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the secret prisons.
4. (Israel) deliberately bombed, as part of a chain of command, families and children belonging to Palestinian organizations. The occupation army approved, from the second day, a plan to exterminate the families of activists, and the target bank includes 150,000 civilians.
5. (Israel) made excessive use of mercenaries and contracted with 22 military service companies. There is an American ship that is essentially a floating morgue containing 1,327 bodies of mercenaries whose families have not yet been notified of their deaths.
6. The amount of gold and money stolen, according to secret army estimates, is approximately $370 million.
7. (70%) of the bombs dropped on Gaza were filled with depleted uranium. The soil in the Gaza Strip is heavily contaminated with uranium elements, containing 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium. Uranium consists of three isotopes: uranium-234, uranium-235, and uranium-238. The depleted uranium dropped on Gaza contains the same types of radiation as natural uranium, but in lower quantities. The radiation emitted by depleted uranium is 40% of that emitted by natural uranium. Uranium-238, which constitutes 99.8% of the depleted uranium, emits alpha particles. Its half-life in Gaza is approximately 450 years. The smoke from the depleted uranium explosions caused cancer in the lungs of everyone who inhaled it.
8. (90%) of women and children in Gaza suffer from severe psychological trauma, and medical centers in the Strip have recorded more than 5,000 cases of complete mental breakdown, mostly among women who lost their children.
9. Approximately 213 (Israeli) pilots refused to carry out airstrikes on targets containing dozens of people. One pilot testified before an Israeli organization that he refused to bomb a residential tower in Tel al-Hawa where 48 children were located, as detected by thermal imaging aircraft. However, another pilot carried out the bombing 17 minutes later, killing everyone in the building. The result was the deaths of 128 civilians.
10. The purpose of establishing a temporary port is to facilitate the mass transfer of Palestinians and their passage to Europe. Three European countries are fully complicit in an agreed-upon plan to depopulate the Gaza Strip.
11. The Zionist war cabinet approved the use of starvation as a weapon in late November.
12. Israeli intelligence agencies made over 3 million phone calls to Gaza residents, threatening to bomb homes and kill families if they did not obtain field information.
13. Two Arab countries offered South Africa very tempting financial incentives in exchange for withdrawing the case from the Supreme Court.
14. The airdropping of aid to Gaza by Western aircraft was carried out based on advice from legal advisors to avoid accusations of complicity in genocide, especially since the weapons supplied were delivered without restrictions on their use against civilians.