Canada’s moral compass is bending backwards because of public apathy, greed, authoritarianism, Islamophobia at the service of Israel, and overwhelming self interest. We’ve lost our penchant for the better good, allowing our media and government to convince us that all is great in Harperland.
All is not great in Canada. We’ve lost our image as a country of good around the world. The surplus left by the Liberals is gone. Personal freedoms are under attack. Religion is creeping into parliament. The media is massed at one border – the Conservative party against the rest of us.
Nothing represents that new version of me-first Canadians than Netsweeper, a Guelph software company that is enabling middle eastern tyrant nations to censor the Internet. The company is so complicit, it doesn’t even bother to fight the accusations of their hand in the censorship.
Netsweeper spokesman Scott O’Neill said that while he disagrees with Citizen Lab’s portrayal of the company, it has adopted a “no comment policy” on the issue.
“There’s no good conversation for us to have,” he said.
Telling that.
Netsweeper (“Providing Internet piece of mind” to a dictator near you) is in the hands of monster regimes who are fighting its own citizens struggling for democracy. And if we’ve learned anything about the struggles in the Arabic world against the tyranny of its leaders is that Conservatives are squarely behind totalitarians like Mubarak and squarely against democracy. This is the change that Harper has been promising. Canadians out for themselves and for nothing else.
And oh yeah, expect Rex Murphy to come out swinging for Netsweeper. After all, it’s only doing what any company should do – make money. Fuck the morality or ethics that usually come with it.
