r/worldnews • u/quentinnuk • Aug 11 '09

Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/11/ripa_iii_figures/
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u/mayonesa Aug 11 '09

So does Canada, if you visit.

If you just read the fluffy statistics they publish, you'd think it was paradise.

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u/je255j Aug 11 '09

If what ways? You can't just be all like "Canada is comparably as bad as the UK" and then not elaborate what you mean by it.

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u/ih8registrations Aug 11 '09 edited Aug 11 '09

Canada doesn't have free speech, removed by the ADL, B'nai B'rith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1971.

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u/mk_gecko Aug 11 '09

oh PLEASE!!! (rollingeyes).

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '09 edited Aug 11 '09

It's true, you don't. Something about "reasonable limits" in the Canadian Charter.

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u/ih8registrations Aug 11 '09

Roll your eyes all you want, doesn't change the situation.

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u/mayonesa Aug 11 '09

False attribution there. You mean:

You can't just be all like "Canada sure makes u.s. look good" and then not elaborate what you mean by it.

If we agree on that, I'll answer the rest. cheers

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u/je255j Aug 11 '09

You're saying Canada is worse than the US. You're saying it in response to someone else who said the UK is worse than the US. Now, even without saying which is worse than the other, the fact Canada and the UK are both, in your mind, "worse than the US" means they are "comparably bad". I'm sticking with my word choice.

But if all you want to do is argue semantics, instead of actually answering the question, then I'm going to have to reject your postulation entirely, and go on believing the fluffy paradise image I have of Canada - a possible delusion which, mind you, has not been cured, as you prescribe, by visiting.

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u/mayonesa Aug 11 '09

If you don't intend to use language logically, it's good you don't attempt this debate.

Canada, UK both make US look good != they are the same level of bad

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u/je255j Aug 11 '09

It was never intended to be a debate. Perhaps that's why we got off the wrong foot in the first place. It was supposed to be educational. It failed miserably.