RaskolnikovsAxe

Yes torrent and file-sharing in most cases violates copyright and is therefore illegal.

That fact won't stop people, especially teens, from doing it. But it is a fact.

As with most things involving kids, open, healthy and honest communication is the best way. If you don't have that then no constraints will really contain them, they will find a way around them, they will sneak around behind your back, and you will lose their trust.

Edit - I'm curious, do you believe it's acceptable to spank children?

If they implement age verification on porn sites, what will be the other nonillegal ways to get porn without ID?

Collecting and reselling any data is far easier done by a website than it would be by the corner LCBO.

But did you or did you not say the LCBO scans the ID and sells the data? I have to admit I've never seen that happen. What do they scan it with?

Anyway there is no way to argue that handing a guy your ID for a glance to buy cigs, weed or alcohol is less safe than uploading to some random porn site on the internet, even if they didn't store your data (and I believe strongly that they would store your data for documenting the verification... either they would, or the third party that does the service)

This bill is garbage.

If it's protecting teens, believe me they know how to sail the high seas.

This is puritan security state nonsense. It's meant to appeal to the socons

Do you have proof that the LCBO or gas stations scan and resell your ID?

That sounds like the very definition of 'big if true'.

In today's western democracies leader cults and charismatic authoritarianism tends to cluster on the right, not the left, despite what the "both sides!" people want to believe.

Donald Trump is the obvious endpoint of pseudopopulist anti-intellectual conservatism. Thankfully the US got there first, so we can all see where the conservatives around the world are headed.

I believe the majority of reasonable Canadians want to reach a just and fair reconciliation that rights the wrongs of the past. Any reconciliation that we expect to be done in mutual goodwill must consider the other innocent parties as well.

If private land is affected, then the land owners releasing title need to be fairly compensated by the government. That is the true and total cost of reconciliation.

Many people in this country are sympathetic to righting the wrongs of the past, but they are not going to destroy their own lives to do it. Let's not forget that ancestry and history do not change the fact that people born in this country, whether indigenous or not, have known nothing other than this country, it is their home no less and no more than anyone else born here, and they have nowhere else to go.

There also needs to be a very transparent and clear timeline and total cost for reconciliation with a clear endpoint milestone.

Fighting against these things will simply create an expanding group of malcontents that will eventually have enough political power to push back in highly unproductive ways.

The unusual twist on this situation is that it appears that the people who may have any real sway in pressuring the government to understand the above seem to be the indigenous groups themselves.

Well we don't have a respectable conservative party in this country that could push back, especially since this is exactly what they would have proposed.

But a few questions:

What provisions would likely be in danger of override?

Is there any regulatory efficiency measures that would be acceptable?

What would proper oversight look like?

Thanks for letting me know, those guys are solid, glad to hear they did this.

Fuck yeah he did, even wrote a song about it.

This is one reason why we need a Guthrie revival. He bashed Trump's father Fred Trump in a song. We need to bring it back and update it for the son.

Woody started the lyrics for us, but he never recorded it:

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Beach Haven family project

Edit to add: whatever the song becomes, it should mention protecting pedophiles.

I doubt many of them even know that antifa is short for anti-fascist.

And even if they did find out, I highly doubt they would have the normal "are we the baddies" moment. They would rationalize it.

Then there is the proportion that are happy to be called fascists.

I fully agree with your sentiment and I have immeasurably immense respect for Americans that are fighting this. I wish them luck and we all know they'll need it.

I'm not American and the best I can do is fight the inevitable diffusion of this into my own country.