VPN provider Windscribe has warned it will relocate its headquarters if Canada passes the controversial Bill C-22. Joining secure messaging app Signal, the company says the proposed surveillance law threatens the “entire essence” of user privacy.

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    Oh yes Canada, please, I can’t wait to get my bank account hacked and all my money stolen and suddenly have two mortgages and have zero recourse because officially I did it myself because the legal encryption backdoor that nobody could ever open was hacked and opened less than 24 hours after rollout of this bullshit

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      Real power doesn’t exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.

      Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing “Democracy is a lie”. But the reality is, it’s not necessarily a lie, but rather, it’s just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.

      Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.

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      Because Canadians want to strip themselves of their own rights&collective power? Otherwise they would have physically removed these politicians.

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    Lol. Windscribe and Signal are both like the shittiest-yet-somewhat-popular solutions to their perspective problems