Criminalizing speech is not the way to track would-be terrorists

There is something disturbingly wrong with this: http://globalnews.ca/news/1803553/are-you-already-violating-the-feds-new-anti-terror-bill/ It takes less than half-hour to take online speech underground, using Tor and its hidden services. It can take months (if possible at all) of highly specialized computer forensic skills and very expensive equipment to track and make sense of the chatter underground…

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Count me as ‘Unsurprised’

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the previously disclosed Snowden documents: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/ https://openmedia.ca/news/breaking-spy-agency-cse-monitoring-our-private-online-activities-massive-scale-and-sharing-sensitive

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