I'm happy that liberapay seems to work and acts as an impartial sender of cash to people who deserve it.
But we always need to remember the story of Dick Masterson's newproject2. He's just a comedian from L.A. and he created a patreon alternative that hosted politically sensitive people, and suddenly he's not allowed to process credit cards under the USAPATRIOT act.
Anything we build is one half step away from being regulated out of existence for no good reason.
But we always need to remember the story of Dick Masterson's newproject2. He's just a comedian from L.A. and he created a patreon alternative that hosted politically sensitive people, and suddenly he's not allowed to process credit cards under the USAPATRIOT act.
Anything we build is one half step away from being regulated out of existence for no good reason.
Canada actually has something like that, and it's great -- Interac e-transfers. People can send a transfer to an email address or cell phone number, and the money is sent immediately. Many micro businesses exclusively use it
They were shutting down people's access to bank accounts if they were caught donating to the trucker convoy, so by that point other than handing cash to people there wasn't much that could be done.
What happened during that protest was a gross violation of human rights. They threatened to take away business licenses, to take away people's kids, to take away people's pets. The press (the public sector news making a billion dollars per year and the private sector news getting millions of dollars per year in government payola) was playing defamatory stories that didn't reflect reality on the ground at the direction of their government masters.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you agreed that covid restrictions should be eased in March instead of October (ultimately what the protest turned out to be about). Anybody who believes in Liberty should see what happened during those protests and be scared as hell because maybe the government agrees with you today, but tomorrow they probably won't, and all of those terrible things will be used against you.
What happened during that protest was a gross violation of human rights. They threatened to take away business licenses, to take away people's kids, to take away people's pets. The press (the public sector news making a billion dollars per year and the private sector news getting millions of dollars per year in government payola) was playing defamatory stories that didn't reflect reality on the ground at the direction of their government masters.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you agreed that covid restrictions should be eased in March instead of October (ultimately what the protest turned out to be about). Anybody who believes in Liberty should see what happened during those protests and be scared as hell because maybe the government agrees with you today, but tomorrow they probably won't, and all of those terrible things will be used against you.
You kidding? Trudeau would have gone out there and genuflected. He literally did that a little while before the trucker protests when BLM was protesting.
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According to the Canadian Constitution, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights
Canada has a test similar to strict scrutiny in the US, which is called the "Oakes test", which sets out to ask the two questions implied by the above: First, is this a "reasonable limit in a free and democratic society.", and second is this "prescribed by law"?
Canadian courts aren't perfect, they sometimes get cases wrong, but there's a lot they do right. One big problem is the problem of the power differential between the government and an individual. They violate your rights, so you have to spend your life savings protecting yourself, only to have them violate your rights again. They have unlimited money, you don't. On the other hand, there are laws the government wanted that were struck down on constitutional grounds, and in fact some of the freedoms we've seen in Canada such as the first stage of euthanasia, were won in court cases against the government. Other examples are prostitution legislation that was struck down, and finally ontario courts were given a deadline a few years ago where if they can't process you in a certain number of months you go free because they have failed to provide you a speedy trial.
Two big problems during the trucker protests were:
1. The Trudeau government is massively corrupt, and much of the stuff that was done was done through the old boys network, such as shutting down the gofundme and givesendgo and shutting down bank accounts in some cases
2. The Trudeau government employed a descendant of the war measures act (last invoked by his stepdad during a national crisis in the 1970s, oddly enough) to give his government extraordinary powers to violate human rights