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If they get the mjority they want... Private Browsing is gone in Canada!

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Sep 15, 2004
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If they get the mjority they want... Private Browsing is gone in Canada!

Privacy is going to be under attack! The ruling Conservative Party has vowed to introduce a bill that would provide unprecedented systematic interception and monitoring of Canadians personal communications.

First mention of bundling "lawfull access" (aka monitoring) and crime bills for passage within 100 days.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Co ... story.html [vancouversun.com]

Link to Conservative platform containing the promise
http://www.conservative.ca/media/Conser ... 11_ENs.pdf [conservative.ca]
Search for "100 days"

Subsequent comments:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/blog ... 126/10/10/ [michaelgeist.ca]

"The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight. Under current privacy laws, providers may voluntarily disclose customer information but are not required to do so. The new system would require the disclosure of customer name, address, phone number, email address, Internet protocol address, and a series of device identification numbers.

While some of that information may seem relatively harmless, the ability to link it with other data will often open the door to a detailed profile about an identifiable person. Given its potential sensitivity, the decision to require disclosure without any oversight should raise concerns within the Canadian privacy community.

The second prong requires Internet providers to dramatically re-work their networks to allow for real-time surveillance. The bill sets out detailed capability requirements that will eventually apply to all Canadian Internet providers. These include the power to intercept communications, to isolate the communications to a particular individual, and to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions."

PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party to provide secure browsing services to protect Canadians from potential Conservative majority”
https://www.pirateparty.ca/uncategorize ... e-browsing.
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Sep 4, 2009
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Your title sucks. Nobody knows what mjority means, or what that refers to, or what Privite Browsing means. Pls fix that.

Having said that, it is a troubling issue, one that might call for making this a minority government.
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rageking wrote: Your title sucks. Nobody knows what mjority means, or what that refers to, or what Privite Browsing means. Pls fix that.

Having said that, it is a troubling issue, one that might call for making this a minority government.

Living up to your screen name. Easy fella, the guy probably just made a typo. God forbid that you've ever misspelled a word before. :facepalm:
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trancewhiiz wrote: Living up to your screen name. Easy fella, the guy probably just made a typo. God forbid that you've ever misspelled a word before. :facepalm:


Forget the typo. What does majority refer to? What does private browsing mean? The title isnt helpful at all.
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I guess it takes an hawk eye to see the point you want to make. I wasn't able to find anything from what you said in the Vancouver Sun article and the search for 100 days in conservative platform returned nothing.
I don't have the time to continue searching so, if you have, please provide more precise links or details for the source of the problem
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rageking wrote: Your title sucks. Nobody knows what mjority means, or what that refers to, or what Privite Browsing means. Pls fix that.

Having said that, it is a troubling issue, one that might call for making this a minority government.
You must be in the mnority of those that can not read without all the letters...

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/l ... n-you-read

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rageking wrote: Forget the typo. What does majority refer to? What does private browsing mean? The title isnt helpful at all.

I knew exactly what majority referred to the moment I read the title. You do know it's election time right?

His title pretty much summed up exactly what he posted.

EDIT: I didn't even realize he mistyped "majority" until I looked back a second time and yet I still understood what he was posting, so you're definately in the MINORITY.
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gheart008 wrote: I knew exactly what majority referred to the moment I read the title. You do know it's election time right?

His title pretty much summed up exactly what he posted.

EDIT: I didn't even realize he mistyped "majority" until I looked back a second time and yet I still understood what he was posting, so you're definately in the MINORITY.



exactly the same thing that happened to me, completely missed the typo until rageking pointed it out.
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XtremeModder wrote: exactly the same thing that happened to me, completely missed the typo until rageking pointed it out.

You can cnt me in tht boat too. :razz:
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gheart008 wrote: I knew exactly what majority referred to the moment I read the title. You do know it's election time right?

His title pretty much summed up exactly what he posted.

EDIT: I didn't even realize he mistyped "majority" until I looked back a second time and yet I still understood what he was posting, so you're definately in the MINORITY.

Exact same thing for me.
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Huh? You guys shd read the posts again. Rageking wasn't talking about the typo and he clearely stated that. It was about the meaning of the post, which I don't understand either. Instead of talking about that insignifiant detail why don't you and the OP post some more info about what is this about , eh?
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arm2000 wrote: Huh? You guys shd read the posts again. Rageking wasn't talking about the typo and he clearely stated that. It was about the meaning of the post, which I don't understand either. Instead of talking about that insignifiant detail why don't you and the OP post some more info about what is this about , eh?

I guess if you have been living under a rock you might not know...

mjority and Copyright Modernization Act
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Time to take the tinfoil hats off people and actually read what they want to do. The government is not out to get you. Please read the link and then do some googling yourself on this issue. You also nee dto realize that its hardly just the PCs that would do this... use your heads people.
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Ahh, Michael Geist.. the man who says that streaming video leads to reduced traffic over internet backbones. I don't really believe much that he has to say anymore.
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TBH I'd rather the government have access to my browsing data then Bell or Rogers. It's not like they don't know everything else I do...so maybe if they bring in competition and take over last mile I can finally not have one of the 2 enemies looking over my shoulder. I'm willing to sacrifice.
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Ah, the intellect of this place. :) So, anything that sounds remotely bad, it must be time for the 'tinfoil hat' label. OP, no time to read up much on that but I will. Those issues are interesting and insightful.

As for the 'Government is not out to get you....' Yeah, the Government has NEVER done anything of harm to anyone or anything deceitful. Nah. As for controlling the internet or people's access of it. Of course not. The Government would NEVER EVER impose itself on people's freedoms. Never. :-0
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arm2000 wrote: I may be living under a rock but you have reading problems. What have to do the links you posted with what I said?

Seriously? Do I really need to break it down?

Mjority is reference to a Majority government from the upcoming election. In case you didn't know Canada has a parliamentary government.
The conservatives have been trying to push through more DMCA like laws into the Canadian Copyright act and make it easier for the CRIA to get information from ISP about Canadians.

Which is the meaning of the post, to bring awareness to these issues.
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Ojam wrote: Seriously? Do I really need to break it down?

Mjority is reference to a Majority government from the upcoming election. In case you didn't know Canada has a parliamentary government.
The conservatives have been trying to push through more DMCA like laws into the Canadian Copyright act and make it easier for the CRIA to get information from ISP about Canadians.

Which is the meaning of the post, to bring awareness to these issues.

As I said: you have serious reading problems. My post was about ppl like you derrailing the discussion due to technical issues (such as misspelling) and posting genaral and vague info instead of focusing on the core of the problem.
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arm2000 wrote: As I said: you have serious reading problems. My post was about ppl like you derrailing the discussion due to technical issues (such as misspelling) and posting genaral and vague info instead of focusing on the core of the problem.
arm2000 wrote: Huh? You guys shd read the posts again. Rageking wasn't talking about the typo and he clearely stated that. It was about the meaning of the post, which I don't understand either. Instead of talking about that insignifiant detail why don't you and the OP post some more info about what is this about , eh?
Short memory?

You asked for more info, it was provided.
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