- Phantaloons@piefed.zipEnglish18 days
XMPP, TOR, and a few 20 4get instances will still be there. All good.
18 daysLets be real, NordVPN has done so many shady things themselve (fake limited time discount on their website which is illegal in many regions of the world), no one who knows about these and cares about data protection and privacy would use it anyway.
But nice that they add some pressure ig.
- Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
It’s an easy way for them to gain some reputation to monetize it later.
Why does humanity have to keep fighting the same fights against different governments over and over again?
Cannot governments, for once, be even slightly on the side of a free society?
States are built on control. They literally only exist because they are the dominant power structure in a specific area.
States pushing for more freedom is antithetical.
- 18 days
Place your bets everyone, which way do you think this will go?
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Canada doesn’t pass the surveillance law
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The law passes and some/all of Signal/DDG/NordVPN remain anyway
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The law passes and they exit Canada
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(something else)
I’m thinking the law passes but the courts kill it due to it violating our Charter. I also feel that the tech companies will not wait for the court case to conclude before leaving Canada.
- 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish18 days
Or
- the law passes with exceptions to specifically these 3 that threatened to leave
- 18 days
#2 DDG might not leave, Signal might do something maliciously compliant, and NordVPN will just leave.
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If Signal were to make a backdoor for the government, that would compromise the security of all users world-wide.
- teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish18 days
Indeed. Although I suspect there already is a back door for the US government, just not one anyone knows about.
