bitwise

How long before a new government amends it again to strike the Criminal Code exception?

These people think we won't do anything about their bullshit, and they can't wait to call us all Convites if we show up in Ottawa to protest.

I think it's time for a general strike, regardless of whether or not they back down. This won't stop until we show them where it leads.

The speed is slower but the slope is slippery all the same.

Beware the fallacy fallacy.

What makes you think it will stop there? Once the groundwork has been laid for this framework, all they need to do is roll out v2 which requires a little more from the user, etc.

Most servers won't check this bit at first because they don't need to or care, but once the technology is in place, it won't be long before legislation mandating the checking of that bit begins to roll out affecting industries and providers that deal in topics and goods deemed to be bad for the children (it won't stop at porn).

Once that happens, minors will learn ways around the check (or parents will be lazy and give their kids access to adult logins, etc), and the "need" to enact stronger checks will be pushed for and...

Put all of it together and you're heading towards an Internet without anonymity in a couple of decades.

Any sort of hardware attestation that non-trivially identifies a person to verify their age is going to be used to track and exploit people.

Anything less than that isn't going to be effective for the supposed purpose.

The moment we need photo ID or government issued keys to access computer systems, things will get a lot more ugly real fast.

The IKEA chest rig really completes the look.

Cyberpunk without the cool implants.

Last time I had a sandwich from Tim Hortons, my farts smelled like egg replacer the next morning. There was no egg on the sandwich.

The Bethesda Model™

Relatively speaking, research suggests Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms hinders its security services from being able to detect and investigate terrorism-related offences given the greater importance placed on individual rights compared to Australia, where there is no such Charter equivalent.

Wow. Let's change the Charter to fight terrorism, everyone! We don't need guaranteed rights and freedoms, they just get in the way of keeping us safe!

Doing more risk assessment and planning to prevent this kind of thing doesn't require stripping citizens of their protection from government overreach. Sneaking this in there feels like someone astroturfing for Bill C-2.

I legitimately am never going back to disposables. It's awesome, and I've never cut myself with it. I 3d printed a used blade box to put the old blades in which solves the only problem with them.

I've tried other safety razors in the past with no luck, so I'm glad this one works as advertised.

They're only doing it cause almost no one wants to pay for the news.

Then again, so many of them make it painful; I bought a sub to the Guardian a few years back and my reward for that was to get even more popups telling me to subscribe to additional features.

Naturally, to cancel it, you have to call someone in the UK during their business hours.

That's why all these megarich assholes own newspapers and media companies; it's a cheap way to establish narrative control and kill off independent media.