{"id":13625,"date":"2012-02-18T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2012-02-18T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:27:52","slug":"even-hardcore-pro-tory-cheerleaders-hate-the-new-internet-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/even-hardcore-pro-tory-cheerleaders-hate-the-new-internet-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Even hardcore pro-Tory cheerleaders hate the new Internet bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun<\/em> chain of newspapers is without a doubt the most pro-Conservative media voice in Canada. When even they are calling Bill C-30 “seriously flawed”<\/a>, you’ve got to hope that the government will give up:<\/p>\n

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The legislation, Bill C-30, tabled this week as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, had virtually no safeguards to protect law-abiding Canadians, including the media, from being spied upon by police, bureaucrats, CSIS — even the competition bureau.<\/p>\n

Until Prime Minister Stephen Harper punted the bill straight to committee for a badly-needed overhaul, his government appeared unconcerned about its own inconsistency.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, for example, the long-gun registry was finally put down, killed by the Harper majority for one reason and one reason alone.<\/p>\n

It was rightly deemed to be an intrusion into the privacy of law-abiding Canadians.<\/p>\n

This leaves Bill C-30 indefensible in its present form.<\/p>\n

Requiring telecommunications providers to hand over personal information — without a warrant — to law-enforcement agencies opens the door to incredible abuses, and not just by Big Brother.<\/p>\n

“This is going to be like the Fort Knox of information that the hackers and the real bad guys will want to go after,” said Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s privacy commissioner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The bill also includes a lovely little gag order provision<\/a> that prevents your ISP from telling you when your information has been turned over to “inspectors” under the bill (and that doesn’t limit itself to the police: anyone<\/em> could be appointed as an inspector by the ministry).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sun chain of newspapers is without a doubt the most pro-Conservative media voice in Canada. When even they are calling Bill C-30 “seriously flawed”, you’ve got to hope that the government will give up: The legislation, Bill C-30, tabled this week as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, had virtually no safeguards to […]<\/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":[6,84,10,28,15],"tags":[186,58,213,154,258],"class_list":["post-13625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-newspapers","tag-privacy","tag-stephenharper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625","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=13625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13626,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions\/13626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}