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Canada's 'Expanded Scope' Blocking Order Targets Existing and Future Pirate Sites
(torrentfreak.com)
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You can't even buy a car that doesn't come with the built-in equivalent of a stalker's tracking device anymore.
It is allowed to sell a washing machine that won't last more than 5 years before breaking without possibility of repair.
It is increasingly difficult to buy a TV that won't spy on you and inject ads.
It is tolerated to sell a peripheral that installs malware on your computer without your authorization.
It is allowed to sell a product that must be always connected to the internet for no good reason and to remotely disable or severely reduce its functionality after it was purchased unless you pay a subscription fee that was not clearly mentioned at the time of the purchase.
It is allowed to sell products that are completely locked-in that you cannot have reasonable control over and that are specifically designed so you can't even repair them.
It is allowed to gain control of the majority of a market and dictate higher prices and anti consumer practices.
It is allowed for a private entity to gather data on people en masse to a level of intrusiveness that only 30 years ago would have required a warrant from a judge for law enforcement to do on a case by case basis.
And THIS is what they've decided they should spend their time regulating? Most of those companies don't even pay taxes in the country. I so fucking hate that our government has so blatantly turned towards serving lobbyist interests instead of the People's.
When the boycott the US movement started, I returned my recently purchased Mac mini and got a bunch of Raspberry pi’s and some Radaxa board (do not currently use it). Sadly my ipad and iPhone are older and out of their return window, I was only tipping my toes into the self hosting world but with all this stuff happening I have jumped right in the deep end.
I had already found out how to disable wifi on my TV and was using pihole to block ads and trackers and “hide” the things my isp could see. But I have turned it all up to 11 now with self hosting everything and having a VPN so that my devices are able to get my self hosted things back home. Sure I could get a VPN to go out of my LAN but the system I have now is what is working for me and my privacy.