Don't think the US didn't either. They just did it under the guise of their "private corporations have the freedom to do this for us if they want.". I remember seeing a chart back in 2020 of something like iPhone users and how well they were obeying the lockdown.
The Canadian military separately admitted they used it as the perfect opportunity for to employ and test propaganda on the citizens. The type they did in the middle east. https://archive.ph/Lu55B.
Provincial governments used foreign "nudge units"
The government also admitted they used quarantines as an opportunity to learn how to better monitor citizens
an initiative overseen by CAF intelligence officers hinged on extracting information from social media accounts in Ontario and compiling data on Black Lives Matter protestors and leaders. They justified the operation under the auspice of "Operation Laser," the CAF mission to assist in long-term care home outbreaks and distribute vaccines in remote communities.
yeah, this is how you know that they have a runaway dictatorship- wanton surveillance for ANY reason at all.
The CJOC initiative brought in Ret. Gen. Gosselin to assess how the CJOC could launch an operation of this size without cabinet approval.
If the canads had a functioning government that worked for the people, this would be close to treasonous.
Governments all over the world use COVID as an excuse to do what they've always wanted to but wouldn't have been able to before.
Now, they can do it all thanks to constant fear-mongering and the fact that they've convinced the political left that authoritarianism is great.
In Germany they did something similar, albeit on a smaller scale. Police used the official Corona contact tracing app to find people who were near a crime they were investigating. Big no-no but they've promised not do it again, pinky swear!.
there was an article this week claiming that conspiracists were claiming the new covid rules were used to spy on people. amazing how quickly theyre getting proven wrong
This is only shocking to people with less then one brain cell. You paid hundreds of dollars of your own money to carry around a audio/visual/location tracking device and post every nanosecond of your life on social media.
Victorian state government in Aus did this, too, to track "where antivaxx protesters were coming from - what suburbs were pockets of resistance". And then the news reported it with no sense of irony or self-awareness, and no pushback...
Colour me shocked! Not...
At the same time, Australian news services are running interference for the Kazakh government, unironically calling protesters "terrorists", just like the regime's propaganda, and blaming "outside agitators"...
It's astounding, but you know how autocratic regimes tend to stick together, after all...
Only a matter of time before we (and Canada) become just as bad as the land of Borat... :-/
I don't know if it was with this user account, if I get logged out I just make a new one, but long, LONG ago in this debacle, over a year, I said "it's the moral responsibility of people to always use a GPS spoofer and ensure your phone only has junk data" or something to that regard.
Don't think the US didn't either. They just did it under the guise of their "private corporations have the freedom to do this for us if they want.". I remember seeing a chart back in 2020 of something like iPhone users and how well they were obeying the lockdown.
They did this on smart cars.
The Canadian military separately admitted they used it as the perfect opportunity for to employ and test propaganda on the citizens. The type they did in the middle east. https://archive.ph/Lu55B.
Provincial governments used foreign "nudge units"
The government also admitted they used quarantines as an opportunity to learn how to better monitor citizens
yeah, this is how you know that they have a runaway dictatorship- wanton surveillance for ANY reason at all.
If the canads had a functioning government that worked for the people, this would be close to treasonous.
When you import millions of refugees from the middle east, you gotta keep an eye on them.
Governments all over the world use COVID as an excuse to do what they've always wanted to but wouldn't have been able to before.
Now, they can do it all thanks to constant fear-mongering and the fact that they've convinced the political left that authoritarianism is great.
In Germany they did something similar, albeit on a smaller scale. Police used the official Corona contact tracing app to find people who were near a crime they were investigating. Big no-no but they've promised not do it again, pinky swear!.
there was an article this week claiming that conspiracists were claiming the new covid rules were used to spy on people. amazing how quickly theyre getting proven wrong
Used to be you had at least a few months before conspiracy theories turned out to be true. Good old times ...
This is only shocking to people with less then one brain cell. You paid hundreds of dollars of your own money to carry around a audio/visual/location tracking device and post every nanosecond of your life on social media.
YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!
Canadians be like "This is great news! It shows they really are looking out for us, and have our best interests at heart after all!"
This Canadian wants them all hanged.
Victorian state government in Aus did this, too, to track "where antivaxx protesters were coming from - what suburbs were pockets of resistance". And then the news reported it with no sense of irony or self-awareness, and no pushback...
Colour me shocked! Not...
At the same time, Australian news services are running interference for the Kazakh government, unironically calling protesters "terrorists", just like the regime's propaganda, and blaming "outside agitators"...
It's astounding, but you know how autocratic regimes tend to stick together, after all...
Only a matter of time before we (and Canada) become just as bad as the land of Borat... :-/
Australia's got a way to fall yet before it's as morally reprehensible as Israel.
For some reason it's not shocking to me at all.
I don't know if it was with this user account, if I get logged out I just make a new one, but long, LONG ago in this debacle, over a year, I said "it's the moral responsibility of people to always use a GPS spoofer and ensure your phone only has junk data" or something to that regard.
I was told, on here, that such was excessive.
Is there any point in even pretending to be surprised? You'd be an idiot to think otherwise.