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Matt Hatfield ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@matthtfld.bsky.social

Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.

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El proyecto de ley C-2 de Canadรก da vรญa libre a la vigilancia El gobierno canadiense se estรก preparando para entregar la vida digital de los canadienses a la policรญa estadounidense, a la administraciรณn de Donald Trump y, posiblemente, a agencias de espionaje

Canadรก abre las puertas a la vigilancia masiva de EE.UU. con el Bill C-2. Quรฉ significa y cรณmo afecta tu privacidad. #Vigilancia #PrivacidadDigital www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

02.08.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canadaโ€™s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadiansโ€™ digital livesโ€”to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strongโ€ฆ

#Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @eff.org warns that Bill C-2 would expose Canadians to sweeping #US surveillance, undermining privacy rights and setting a dangerous precedent.

02.08.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is a perfect example of how an unfettered presidential removal power can undermine accountability (despite unitary executive theory claims to the contrary). How can you hold the President accountable for economic conditions if the President can keep us from knowing about those conditions?

01.08.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

One day left to make a submission to the BC all-party committee on electoral reform!

If you've already submitted or don't live in BC, send this to your friends who do.

Letโ€™s make it clear: itโ€™s time for electoral justice in BC, and that starts with proportional representation.

24.07.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.

23.07.2025 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4243    ๐Ÿ” 898    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the militaryโ€™s top jobs"

By a former long-time Naval War College professor

23.07.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 629    ๐Ÿ” 266    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

look, who are you going to believe, leading Israeli scholar of genocide Omer Bartov or a guy who couldn't even be bothered actually looking up the legal definitions of genocide

23.07.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 621    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Nvidia Chip Deal Trades Away the United Statesโ€™ AI Advantage Right when the Trump administration should be ramping up export controls, its trade strategy is undermining them.

The administration might be trading away long-term advantage for short-term headlines.

22.07.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices Analysis of broadband affordability deemed โ€œextraneousโ€ by FCC chair.
21.07.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to peopleโ€™s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

19.07.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4202    ๐Ÿ” 2338    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 144    ๐Ÿ“Œ 301

The explosion of cheap private surveillance cameras stuck to every home and car and business is easily as dangerous to human thriving as nuclear or biological weapons or climate change and we should take it just as seriously

20.07.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 129    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is an important one.

Please help us help you.

16.07.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Support the fight for a free and open Internet! Our work is only possible thanks to people like you. Support the fight for a free and open Internet!

Help @openmediaorg.bsky.social fight for the open Internet. Donate today! Help stop Bill-C2 that will allow massive spying on all Canadians!
openmedia.org/donate #technology #nptech

16.07.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes! The biggest lesson from the last 25 years is that there is a limit to how much a community can scale.

Social media is not a community platform. Communities can form within social media, but the platforms are designed for distribution and not meaningful connection.

19.07.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Unreal.

19.07.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1235    ๐Ÿ” 357    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 114    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

"It is worth briefly considering the dystopia of this situation and its aftermath." Yes. I have seen countless posts about this clip and this is the first time I have seen someone โ€” rightfully โ€” asking if this is really the way we want to engage with social media, public life, and each other.

17.07.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 225    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Bumping this given the new ICE frt news.

17.07.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No better way to tamp down the conspiracy theories on Epstein than to fire the Epstein prosecutor

16.07.2025 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5574    ๐Ÿ” 1021    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 150    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.

16.07.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2596    ๐Ÿ” 1034    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 119
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From increased police power to stricter immigration, hereโ€™s whatโ€™s in the new border bill The governmentโ€™s Strong Borders Act would let Canada Post and police open mail, create powers to cancel immigration en masse and more

I know it's trite to say, but it's true: if the Conservatives tried to pass an anti-privacy, rights-violating, massive overreach border bill like this, Liberals would lose their mind.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

16.07.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 157    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Should ICE officials be required to wear uniforms while arresting people? 71% Yes, 18% No.

... allowed to wear masks while making arrests? 36% Yes, 52% No.

d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

15.07.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDRA...

15.07.2025 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenMedia's summer fundraising drive is now in full swing!

We're asking your help to meet our fundraising goal of $40,000 and keep our work going into this fall, and for many years to come.
action.openmedia.org/page/174057/...
@mgeist.bsky.social

15.07.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

what the fuck

14.07.2025 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Americans have been killed over walking out of a convenience store with a pack of Skittles

14.07.2025 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

this is a structural problem that threatens the entire industry: the financial incentives lean toward Takes but Takes ultimately depend on a bedrock of reporting that there is almost no working model for at this point.

14.07.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 940    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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โ€˜Humanitarian cityโ€™ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert calls out war crimes being committed by IDF, explains that criticism of Israel does not equate to antisemitism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

14.07.2025 02:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 385    ๐Ÿ” 129    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century This paper examines the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the 20th century US both for its own interest and to identify potentially useful a

People didnโ€™t โ€œused to be fineโ€ without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

13.07.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4612    ๐Ÿ” 1261    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 149    ๐Ÿ“Œ 140
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Canadaโ€™s housing crisis is deepening. Carney quietly changed the definition of โ€œaffordableโ€ housingโ€”from 30% to 50% of a personโ€™s income. Thatโ€™s not affordabilityโ€”itโ€™s desperation. No one should spend half their income just to live. Build housing now.

12.07.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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Iโ€™m here at the State Dept where 1350 people were fired today. Members of Congress are set to speak and several dozen people are outside the building carrying signs with messages like โ€œDIPLOMACY IS HOMELAND SECURITY.โ€

11.07.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 183    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

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