{"id":13613,"date":"2012-02-17T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:48:34","slug":"even-the-folks-who-supported-lawful-access-are-rethinking-after-vic-toews-with-us-or-with-the-child-pornographers-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/even-the-folks-who-supported-lawful-access-are-rethinking-after-vic-toews-with-us-or-with-the-child-pornographers-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the folks who supported &#8220;lawful access&#8221; are rethinking after Vic Toews&#8217; &#8220;with us or with the child pornographers&#8221; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2012\/02\/17\/lorne-gunter-want-to-read-my-email-get-a-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorne Gunter<\/a> was about to write in favour of the Conservative government&#8217;s Orwellian &#8220;lawful access&#8221; legislation until Vic Toews clarified the issue for him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Want to read my email, Vic Toews? Get a warrant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vic Toews, stay out of my inbox. And no, it\u2019s not because I\u2019m trying to hide messages between me and kiddie porn providers.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to write a column defending the Tories\u2019 \u201clawful access\u201d bill, albeit with strong reservations. Then Public Safety Minister Vic Toews accused anyone and everyone who wasn\u2019t fully behind his bill of being supportive of the sexual creeps who prey on children by making and distributing pornographic images of them.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Mr. Toews? Could you have done anything else that would have more thoroughly confirmed civil libertarians\u2019 fears about your bill\u2019s assault on privacy and personal liberty?<\/p>\n<p>It is not a sign of indifference to the scourge of online child pornography to be concerned about giving police too much authority to snoop around in Canadians\u2019 online activities. That\u2019s a genie that cannot be put back in its bottle once it\u2019s been released.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorne Gunter was about to write in favour of the Conservative government&#8217;s Orwellian &#8220;lawful access&#8221; legislation until Vic Toews clarified the issue for him: Want to read my email, Vic Toews? Get a warrant Vic Toews, stay out of my inbox. And no, it\u2019s not because I\u2019m trying to hide messages between me and kiddie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,15],"tags":[186,58,98,154],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-police","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13614,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}