By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026Those giants wiped out Canada's tech sector while making Canada geopolitically and economically dependent on - and vulnerable to - the US and its tech companies. Canada is long overdue for a reckoning with this blunder. 51/ 19913
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been *before* an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries. The second-best time is *now*. 52/ 5315105
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026By repealing Bill C-11 and legalizing reverse-engineering and modification of digital technology with consent of its users and in accordance with privacy, consumer and labour rights, Canada will gain a devastating counter to Trump's tariffs. 53/ 117054
Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 25/08/2026@albomp.bsky.social you seeing this champ? 010
John Hatchard @johnhatchard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026X is one of the biggest hate speech problems that exists yet we can choose as a country to ban it. There's always workarounds but that doesn't mean you roll out the red carpet for Musk and his neo nazi evil to make it easier for them to spread. 000
Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Canadian Dept of Fisheries & Oceans email uses MS Outlook servers, to give just one example. 171
