On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Yes, the same guy who wrote On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom.

This booklet - as near as I can tell - is an argument for taking what the UK's been doing with the NHS and Canada with Medicare and running with it as far and as fast as possible, from the position that such a course would maximise the freedom of most, if not all, citizens.

I hope to have more to say after I finish reading it.

Related note, discovered via Mastodon: Finnish insurance companies seem to have a pattern of making trouble for people dealing with ADHD. I wonder how much along similar lines is happening in Canada. Also, remembering one of the plotlines of Robert J. Sawyer's novel Frameshift...

Interesting development now underway.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-bans-parler-app-and-apple-could-do-the-same-after-capitol-hill-attack/ar-BB1cASI0

A bit of good news, I think, in play this morning for you to look at.

This is a reason worth holding onto, I think. A lot of people in that country see what's going on there for what it is.

Michael Enright argued today that the Canadian press - as a whole, not just the news service that's trademarked the name "Canadian Press" - is not entirely free in Canada.

I would argue as a sidebar that the likes of James Sears got too little of what he deserved in response to his efforts to curtail the freedoms of his fellow humans. I would not call James Sears a journalist at all, in fact. Also, I consider that the likes of Jamal Khashoggi, Marie Colvin, and Anna Politovskaya - among many others across this planet - have certainly gotten none of what they deserved: long, productive lives in service of their fellow humans.

That we now have the Journalistic Sources Protection Act in force in Canadian law is, I think, an improvement upon the state of my nation's affairs. That it has some actual teeth, even more so. I hope those teeth and the jaws in which they're rooted stay healthy. Vigilance is required for that to become and remain so...in this, as in so many other things.