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Should Champions of Liberalism Get Behind Trudeau’s Online Speech Restrictions?
Robert Stewart, National Newswatch, April 8, 2021
With the Liberal Party soon introducing their long-promised online “hate speech” ban, it’s important Canadians put aside any emotiveness on the issue and commit some serious thought on what’s really at stake. Although less punitive than our existing criminal hate speech prohibitions, the forthcoming bill, like the since-repealed Section 13 of Canada’s human rights code, will be much more expansive.
What scares people most about bans against “hate” is that such laws naturally fail to communicate exactly what’s punishable and what’s not. Concepts like hate speech, of course, are entirely subjective, and liberal societies have always bristled at implementing vague, open-ended laws; so easy are they at becoming tools of the powerful to suppress the powerless.
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David A. Wheeler, the Linux Foundation s Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, explained that in the Orion attack that the malicious code was inserted into Orion by subverting the program s build environment. This is the process in which a program is compiled from source code to the binary executable program deployed by end-users. In this case, the security company CrowdStrike worked out that the Sunspot malware watched the build server for build commands and silently replaced some of Orion s source code files with malware.
By entering the program before it s even properly a program, this hack makes most conventional security advice useless. For example,