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You do realize that in all totalitarian states there is no significant "anti-censorship innovation" of note? Basically you are playing with fire and the only way playing with fire end is when everything burns to ashes. Not just the dust in the corner and that broken toy you don't like, but also everything you like too.

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Oh I totally agree that once a nation goes entirely totalitarian nobody is circumventing anything. If people act even slightly suspicious it's boots on necks and gets far far worse from there. The UK, US and even Canada have quite a ways to go to reach that level even if people may think otherwise. A sign that we are approaching such levels would be nobody wants to enter those nations legally or illegally any more.

Canada is still trying to take away everyone's firearms and still trying to figure out how they will avoid turning many of their citizens into felons by October.

>A sign that we are approaching such levels would be nobody wants to enter those nations legally or illegally any more.

That is already true of Canada, as it is no longer possible to live like a Canadian [in the way they were hoping for] on immigrant wages.

>and still trying to figure out how they will avoid turning many of their citizens into criminals

The entire point of the gun bill is to do this. The purpose of a system is what it does.

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