I signed it; I recommend you do too.
Petition: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
It wouldn’t hurt to add your opinion on the Tories’ crime bill (Bill C-51), which if passed as it is, will turn out to be a major attack on our liberty, making simply linking to so-called hate sites a crime. Yes, you will become responsible for the content of the material you link to, including if the content changes without your knowledge. Read here, here, and especially here:
Here is how utterly clueless the people who wrote that bill are about the internet: a link is not, as they seem to think, some sort of stamp of approval, of “this is a site I agree with here’s the link.” All a link is is a pointer to some other website. It has no context of its own — it’s a method of citation.
I’d be remiss not to note that Free Dominion has been sounding the alarm about this internet surveillance bill for some time now.
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Done! It is amazing to me rgat Harper’s team would come up with such an out of character piece of draconian law such as the internet spying bill. Whoever is responsible should be pink slipped immediately – or perhaps this was the work of some internet freedom hating rogue bureaucrat.
Me 2, done. Lets hope it gets results.
I also added to end the CBC A.S.A.P.
Natasha; done, but not holding my breath. It’s problematic not addressing a single issue with a petition like this.
-some folks won’t sign on because they don’t necessarily agree with all the items.
-the intended recipient won’t know which items are the most egregious to the sender ie priorities.
-the intended subject, the crime bill, gets lost in the shuffle.
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