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Vikileaks teaches Vic Toews a lesson in online privacy on Twitter
First, let's watch Public Safety Minister Vic Toews pretend that he didn't make his infamous "stand with us or with the child pornographers" comment, in defence of the Conservative's government's Internet surveillance bill.
Then check out @vikileaks30, a brand-new Twitter account that is tweeting purported excerpts of affidavits from Toews's divorce case in an apparent protest against the so-called Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act, which has privacy commissioners speaking out.
If you didn't know, the former "Minister of Family Values" got divorced in 2008, after knocking up his mistress.
Some completely unverified tidbits:
"In late 2006, I discovered that the woman with whom I was having an affair was pregnant with my child." #c30
— Vikileaks (@vikileaks30) February 15, 2012
"It was devastating for me because Vic had informed me in 1993 that he had been having an affair with my sister's nanny for 7 years." #30
— Vikileaks (@vikileaks30) February 15, 2012
"Vic was anxious to remain married and to do anything he could to keep the marriage together including..."
— Vikileaks (@vikileaks30) February 15, 2012
"...agreeing to have nothing more to do with his mistress and nothing to do with the baby."
— Vikileaks (@vikileaks30) February 15, 2012
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If the bill passes and the government starts searching through our private communications it won't be private long. We have only to look back at Veterans who were fighting with Veteran Affairs to gain their benefits. What did the government do, they all had a look at these people's medical records, their medical records became gossip fodder. We don't need any more of that.
The bill would enable any politician/government authority to "have a look". How wonderful to be able to gather information on your opposition, your ex-spouse, people you don't like and then let all that information go public.
If you don't like Annonymous, you are going to love this new bill.
Conservative Gov stay the fuk away from my Internet privacy!
Instead legalize pot and let the Rio Theatre show movies again without having to fill out 10 forms and giving 4 weeks notice.
It would be an interesting" experiment" to see what happens to you.
How does it feel,Vic?
Sounds like that girl likes her some Conservative (authoritarian) dick. The phrase "self-hating" springs to mind, for some reason.
But hey I'm no expert.
Just a thought.
"Is it right to fight potential abuse of privacy with actual abuse of privacy?"
This is not an "actual abuse of privacy".
The details from Toews divorce being Tweeted are public record in Manitoba, available online to anyone that bothers to look.
Or are you trying to argue that drawing attention to public records is somehow an abuse ?
It's just ordinary fight fire with dirt thing, then.
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Your IP address is already easily available and recorded whenever you go to any website which can be easily tracked to your residence, which can be cross-referenced against the online phone books. All this bill does is increase the efficiency of the process.
"Has anybody actually read this bill?"
Yes.
What the
"They can't actually search anything without a warrant"
Yes, they can. Have you read it ?
People in glass house shouldn't throw stones.
The pot calling the kettle black.
Hypocrite and karma's a bitch.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. :)
that we are being deceived as to the real intent, and consequences, of this bill.
Thank goodness someone has the guts to take a stand against further encroachment on our rights to privacy.
let's dig up details about -every- Conservative politician currently in office, and make that visible too! If the whole party is running scared, perhaps it'll teach our representatives (hah) to fear us, as they should, and never introduce such rights-abusing laws again.
We need a #PCPartyLeaks twitter feed...
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