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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Party leaders debate the meaning of ‘terrorist’

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says the man behind last week’s shooting in Ottawa was not a terrorist. Predictably, PM Stephen Harper took issue with Mulcair’s comments. Even more predictably, the intellectual heavyweight as he is, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau offered a deep thought in the form of “The RCMP was clear,…

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