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by lucidone 851 days ago
Grass is greener and so forth but as a Canadian I find our current government paternalistic, pandering, reactive, and stifling. Not every problem should be solved by the sledgehammer of our public service, regulation, and bureaucracy, all of which are highly inefficient and wasteful. It's tax season - I pay nearly half my wages to the government in income tax - all so they can redistribute it to those who they deem worthy and unworthy (similar how to they might deem some content harmful and other content unharmful). Let me make my own decisions!
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Even the opposition party is for this nonsense.
From what I can tell, the opposition party is paradoxically for the also questionable proposal to hold porn sites accountable for minors accessing them, but not the Online Harms one.
The leader of the opposition party stated yesterday that they are against id for porn:

https://twitter.com/Golden_Pup/status/1762178506102858157

At least seems to be listening to criticism.

That was a surprisingly clear walk back.