Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government’s proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be forced to weaken the privacy protections it has built its reputation on. In an interview with The Globe and Mail

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    The more pathetic decisions governments push worldwide like this, the more I start to feel like we’re still in the middle ages. Of course the difference being now all the power-hungry degenerates know just how much to wring out of the lowly civilians without letting them figure out who to blame.

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      It’s worse. We’ve gotten some hard earned concessions from the ruling class, especially from labour organizing resurgence around the Great Depression, and they’ve been rolling back since the 70s. We’re backsliding from legitimate gains.

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      While we all have computer walkie-talkies connected to the questionable ether, human nature has never changed.

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        Oh I agree completely. People tend to not realize that we’re still biologically identical to Humans from over 100 000 years ago aside from the odd irrelevant difference. Nothing’s really changed in that regard.