> ... it’s more the progressive wing of most countries who are pushing for authoritarian censorship of the internet

China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Russia... Aren't progressive by any metric.

I agree that the Liberal's current push to degrade Canadian's privacy is worrisome - and their excuse is "we need expanded surveillance powers to make sure your privacy is protected..."!?!

I disagree that this is a partisan thing however. Whether it's Canada, the UK or anywhere else it seems each party in power just pushes for more surveillance and more censorship, just using different excuses to justify their actions.

For example, Harper's conservative government put forth bill C-13 (online crime excuse) and C-30 ('think of the children' excuse), which arguably laid the way for much of the spying apparatus that is currently in place against Canadian citizens. And while Obama allowed the NSA's warrantless internet surveillance program, Trump extended it until 2024.

All governments want to spy on you, and all governments want to be able to control what you say, period. They just want you to beg for it first.

Both big government conservatives and big government progressives are pushing for more censorship. The only difference is the topics that they want to be censored.

(Side note: the American Republican party is big government conservatives. Their rhetoric is irrelevant - look at what they do, not at what they say they want to do.)

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Is this common knowledge? It's the first claim I've encountered of Canada attempting Internet censorship.