Thank God our government will always put in effort to stop the poor from potentially affecting the oligarchs bottom line.
It’s totally fine that antitrust is long dead though. The rogers merger is fine, and $70 insufficient funds charge is totally ethical and fine, etc.
It’s totally fine that the priority is so blatantly skewed towards the people who already own everything and want to ensure everyone else has no choice but to exist in their proprietary rent seeking environments, etc.
American companies and politicians are pushing Alberta separatist propaganda, but lucky our government is focused on making American companies especially comfortable like always.
Everything is totally fine.
Even just looking at internet policy, it’s clear the Canadian government isn’t working for the benefit of ordinary Canadians. They have Bill C-22, which potentially undermines privacy by compromising encryption, enhances surveillance through mandatory metadata retention, and could make it hard for anyone but large corporations to legally run online services in Canada. They have Bill C-34, which introduces a new commission with the power to censor and control what Canadians can access on the internet, and requires Canadians to hand over government-issued ID to access websites and online services, potentially to third parties run from the USA. And the Canadian government continues to increase intelligence sharing with the USA despite the USA clearly being hostile and a threat to Canada. Whoever they’re governing for, it’s not us.
You can’t even buy a car that doesn’t come with the built-in equivalent of a stalker’s tracking device anymore.
It is allowed to sell a washing machine that won’t last more than 5 years before breaking without possibility of repair.
It is increasingly difficult to buy a TV that won’t spy on you and inject ads.
It is tolerated to sell a peripheral that installs malware on your computer without your authorization.
It is allowed to sell a product that must be always connected to the internet for no good reason and to remotely disable or severely reduce its functionality after it was purchased unless you pay a subscription fee that was not clearly mentioned at the time of the purchase.
It is allowed to sell products that are completely locked-in that you cannot have reasonable control over and that are specifically designed so you can’t even repair them.
It is allowed to gain control of the majority of a market and dictate higher prices and anti consumer practices.
It is allowed for a private entity to gather data on people en masse to a level of intrusiveness that only 30 years ago would have required a warrant from a judge for law enforcement to do on a case by case basis.
And THIS is what they’ve decided they should spend their time regulating? Most of those companies don’t even pay taxes in the country. I so fucking hate that our government has so blatantly turned towards serving lobbyist interests instead of the People’s.
When the boycott the US movement started, I returned my recently purchased Mac mini and got a bunch of Raspberry pi’s and some Radaxa board (do not currently use it). Sadly my ipad and iPhone are older and out of their return window, I was only tipping my toes into the self hosting world but with all this stuff happening I have jumped right in the deep end.
I had already found out how to disable wifi on my TV and was using pihole to block ads and trackers and “hide” the things my isp could see. But I have turned it all up to 11 now with self hosting everything and having a VPN so that my devices are able to get my self hosted things back home. Sure I could get a VPN to go out of my LAN but the system I have now is what is working for me and my privacy.
Theyre worried about me pirating content that I would otherwise pay to Netflix?
They can fuck right off
Beyond the stupidity of prioritizing this over the wellfare of Canadians, won’t VPNs still work to access those sites? How futile it this?
It seems to be a matter of time before VPN crackdowns come to our shores.
The overwhelming majority of voters have zero concept of how open internet works, so they’ll gobble up what they’re told and will be in favour of losing their liberties.
And easily circumvented with purchasing a VPS overseas and connecting directly to it, or routing all traffic through it.
Essentially your own private VPN
Also, banning VPNs means pretty much every company would be breaking the law.
All you need is the torrent link, can easily be obtained through tor browser.
this won’t work. these “sites” change domains on the regular because they have to. torrent sites also don’t appear to be mentioned, hell the Pirate Bay still exists (literally just used it 30min ago to get the new episode of X-Men '97) and how many times has that been “killed”. jellyfin servers (for example) also circumvent this. command line alternatives also. and obviously VPNs. get a euro based VPN and you’re good to go.
I’ve been on the internet and pirating crap since the 90s…nothing is ever truly gone, just a new method to obtain it.
Don’t waste your time going and manually getting torrents get the *arr stack. I used to be big against the whole idea of pirating but the boycott the us movement started and I jumped back in to the high seas. First I was trying to learn python to write my own scripts to get torrents to download things, I failed missurabrly! But than I found Sonarr and its related apps.
The goal isn’t necessarily to outright prevent piracy (but obviously they would if they could). But, by keeping such sites constantly changing it prevents sites from gaining notoriety and keeps people who aren’t very tech savvy (the majority) away from torrenting. They may get a site they can trust from a friend, but when that site goes down in a month the hope is they just give up. The faster the churn the more normie users can be kept away from piracy.
Jellyfin is pretty great, but still requires the user be on somewhat close terms with someone tech savvy. Torrenting more generally has the (false) perception of being very risky. It’s not about stopping people in the know, we aren’t good consumers anyway, it’s about stopping tech illiterate people.
