This has been quite a problem for the ruling classes
And, for what it's worth, I support the rights of the truckers to protest. When they're blocking highways, it's civil disobedience, and they're subject to arrest. I just wish other protesters were treated so well.
The Government did nothing when the Natives blocked the rail links causing harm to CN/CP and Canadians across the country. Your attempt to obfuscate the facts makes you unqualified to comment and you should refrain from participating in this conversation.
I am somewhat puzzled by this take. Consider how much people donate to people in other countries that they've never met and in which they've never voted. Consider how much people donate to content creators that they want to support (youtube, substack, etc.). Consider that there are currently several fundraisers on GoFundMe for the people of Ukraine, who are afraid of an invasion — also, presumably, from people from other countries. Why are the donations to the truckers by the people who are sympathetic to their cause any darker?
I am a Canadian and my government has allowed someone we did not vote in to shutdown our economy and restrict me. If the government can do that, we the citizens can do it.
My province has increased covid rules and keeps pushing opening up for vaccinated down the road. While everywhere else is easing off. We can't even go to a gym to work out and our hospitals are way under normal capacity.
I am not pro outsiders funding our citizens to do these things but at this point I'll take the help I can get.
You are implying if your site or company has poor security practices its okay for hackers to steal data?
Can't wait for someone else to say, 'Security is so hard' but also cheer on hackers that breach sites they don't like.
> Can't wait for someone else to say, 'Security is so hard' but also cheer on hackers that breach sites they don't like.
The top comment of the GoDaddy post you linked literally says "This could have been an easily avoidable data breach."
We've repeatedly watched as "the mainstream restricts us so we'll do our own thing" sites are built with absolutely rudimentary security faults. They're rushed, have a very eager and non-discretionary userbase that is chomping at the bit. They usually have compromised motivations.
And then they fall. It has become sadly predictable.
Except that this isn't 'whataboutism' since I already agreed with what you said, that GiveSendGo definitely had poor security whilst also not supporting or justifying with hacktivists, criminals or script-kiddies attacking anyone's site.
> Nor did I "cheer on" anything:
Never directly accused you for cheering: I'm only predicting the obvious.
If one is supporting hackers breaching other peoples websites they don't like, whilst defending another with that phrase which applies to everyone as an excuse for it, then you would fall under that category.
> And then they fall. It has become sadly predictable.
Yes, it's very predictable. Unfortunately it can happen to anyone. Whether if you are big like GoDaddy or small like GiveSendGo. These hackers are not on anyone's side.
The linked article also reveals that the separatists in question were kidnapping multiple people at the time. This seems like ample reason to arrest a bunch of them.
The october crisis is one of the most important events in modern canadian political history.
What is disputed is whether putting the entire country under martial law, canceling all civil liberties and sending the army into the streets, as Trudeau did, was an appropriate response.
It's impossible to discuss this objectively at the moment, because everyone will simply line up with whatever position supports their side in the current contro, but I think it's safe to say that up until this moment the majority view (certainly among the educated class) has been that this was an authoritarian excess and a bad precedent, and that the criminal justice system would have sufficed to deal with the threat.
It is one of the most famous episodes in Canadian history, and remains debated, so the word notorious is accurate.
the army part was the premier of quebec not trudeau. Policing is a provincial responsibility. Having the armty come in was a provincial call that was unrelated to the war measures act.
"The state must use every means at its disposal" ... "Just watch me"