Save the Internet: The SOPA/PIPA thread.

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Hey canadian dudes you should know about Steven Harper's new bill:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial...ans-online

One can only congratulate Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews for taking George W. Bush’s Churchillian call to freedom in 2001 — “you’re either with us or with the terrorists” — and raising him one with Monday’s House of Commons classic, “He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.”

Toews was speaking of a conscientious Liberal MP who had dared question the Harper government’s new bill allowing free-ranging police online surveillance of Canadians. Francis Scarpaleggia, the Liberal public safety critic, had been doing his job — rather well, in fact — by saying that the bill has police “preparing to read Canadians’ emails and track their movements through cellphone signals, in both cases without a warrant.”
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The bill also forces tech providers to provide police with a “back door” for easy surveillance. It also lets police get warrants to track any information sent online, who sent it and from where, and will let courts force other parties to preserve electronic evidence.

Emphasis mine. Note that Canada's political system makes it much easier for this bill to pass since the Conservatives currently have a majority (as far as I recall.) Of course, a petition has been started the moment this was announced:

http://openmedia.ca/StopSpying