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Comment Re:SERIOULSY ? Let's link to the nutjobs !!!!!! (Score 1) 308

Yeah, my bad. Sorry about that. I hadn't had time to really process exactly how stupid that site was before I hit submit, and would remove it from the submission if that was at all possible. I apologize for that supreme fuckup, and offer you this much more compelling piece (which I should have linked to instead.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Terrible Summery (Score 2) 308

You may be correct that the summary is a little misleading, but I think C-13 is only addressed in one of the 3 main stories linked. Preventative detention & making certain forms of speech illegal are new ideas, as far as I understand, and are separate responses. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - I'm just a guy stuck in Costa Rica trying to make sense of this all from afar.

Comment Re:Formatting. (Score 4, Interesting) 308

Thanks for the kind words. I realize now that I forgot to mention it in the submission, but as a Canadian I was surprised to find that the very best analysis of this current situation came from Russel Brand, who I'd honestly never watched before, but was overwhelmingly prescient in his analysis (even if he does bounce about like a caffeinated meth head) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Formatting. (Score 5, Informative) 308

Not really sure why I should go to the trouble of properly formatting with paragraph tags, italics and footnotes (using Slashdot's own markup conventions) just to have the editors strip it all out again before pushing to the front page. If you want to optimize for mobile, just remove the option to use markup tags in the first place.

Submission + - Days after shooting, Canada proposes new restrictions on and offline. (nationalpost.com)

o_ferguson writes: As Slashdot reported earlier this week, a lone shooter attacked the war memorial and parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada on Wednesday.

As many comments predicted, the national government has seized this as an opportunity to roll out considerable new regressive legislation, including measures designed to* increase data access for domestic intelligence services, institute a new form of extra-judicial detention, and, perhaps most troubling, criminalize some forms of religious and political speech online. As an example of the type of speech that could, in future, be grounds for prosecution, the article mentions that the killer's website featured "a black ISIS flag and rejoiced that 'disbelievers' will be consigned to the fires of Hell for eternity."

A government MP offers the scant assurance that this legislation is not “trauma tainted," as it was drafted well prior to this week's instigating incidents. Needless to say, some internet observes remain, as always, highly skeptical of the manner in which events are being portrayed.

*Please note that some articles may be partially paywalled unless opened in a private/incognito browser window.

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