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PotatoRustler retweeted
SHOCKING: Expert after expert after expert warned Parliament: Liberal Bill C-22 means a surveillance state with MORE control and ZERO accountability. Tell Big Brother to BUTT OUT.
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VPN companies will leave Canada. The government will force companies to retain your data for one year. The legal threshold for police access to your data will be lowered. Meanwhile, the federal government is cancelling all debate on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, in order to pass this legislation before Parliament adjourns on Friday, June 19. Now, more than ever before, Canadians who care about privacy must urge their Members of Parliament to defeat Bill C-22. This is a critical moment in our history: will Canada be a free nation or a surveillance state? Canadians have defeated "lawful access" legislation before, and we must do so again. Contact your MP today: ourcommons.ca/Members/en/seaโ€ฆ

๐ŸšจThe government is moving to shut down lawful access hearings and consideration of amendments on mandatory metadata retention, security backdoors, and weakened encryption today. All amendments to Bill C-22 would be kept secret and voted on without debate. michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/goveโ€ฆ
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Setting my VPN to North Korea so I have more internet freedom than Starmerโ€™s Britain
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๐Ÿšจ For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording. They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now theyโ€™re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing: A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token. Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing. It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.
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The government of ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ introducing bills that are so outrageous and controversial that they're successfully uniting the (rational) left and right in a fight against the new policy was not on my 2026 bingo card. Love to see it ๐Ÿ‘
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Jun 16
this is absolutely insane - the UK now proposes scanning of all PRIVATE content on user devices or *jail* (for the execs) of device companies ^ recall how the french already arrested pavel earlier this year - this is on a *device level* -- meaning you can not even use the phone freely *unless you literally KYC* -- does not matter which apps you use - on top of this, they will require *another* KYC submission on the app-level to access certain apps so this would mandate both device-level and app-level surveillance this is the most draconian shit I have seen in tech yet
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Weโ€™re seeing bank freezes, gun grabs, social bans, back doors and kill switches come together in real time โ€” and the lack of alarm is, itself, alarming. These lines are hard to un-cross.
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Buy Pixel with cash. Install @GrapheneOS . Instantly render @Keir_Starmer 's tin pot authoritarianism utterly ineffective. Easily access Tiktok with your VPN location set to a free and democratic jurisdiction. Simples.
๐Ÿšจ NEW: The UK's social media ban for under-16s is set to be enforced at device-level, with Apple and Google forced to verify the age of all users
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Sometimes the world is filled with so much beauty I can barely stand it
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Imagine being so intellectually bankrupt that you have to default to a "cHeCk YoUr HaRd DrIvE" smear because you're incapable of talking about government surveillance in any impactful way. Loudly announcing to the internet that you don't understand how regulatory laws work is a weird flex, but okay.
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If you're in ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, this could be very useful soon.
github.com/anderspitman/awesโ€ฆ If you're in Canada or the UK or any of the countries attempting to impose restrictions for identity or age; Immediately clone/cope this repo to an offline drive somewhere you can still easily access. Keep it safe, you may need it in the future. If you don't have it at least kept somewhere after everything's in place it's already too late for you.
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And there it is. Like clockwork. Lol. This is what Bill C-34 is all about, Canada. Wake up.
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Its funny when city people mock country people, because most city folk are poor as dirt, living in glorified pantries, and have zero survival skills. The other half of the city, looks at those people like rodents, and vacations in the country.
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Shout out to all the neurodivergent people forced into entrepreneurship because itโ€™s all you can do๏ฟผ
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My BFF's daughter is 20 this year. I was there when his daughter was born and it honestly feels like *maybe* 10 years ago. Wild how time flies ๐Ÿคฏ
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I was so hungover in this photo lol. Wake up, choose violence โ˜•
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PotatoRustler retweeted
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-mytโ€ฆ
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PotatoRustler retweeted
A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire. Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour. SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years. $SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Bernie Sanders and AOC haven't created a single millionaire. Elon just created 4,400 millionaires. Socialism vs. Capitalism
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PotatoRustler retweeted
Jun 12
JUST IN: SpaceX is now worth more than Canada
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