robocall

[nature boy]

it's been in the news a lot lately. i usually read the articles because i keep thinking it says "robocop".
but anyway, what the eff is up with this thing anyway? it seems to me that it's just a prank gone viral.

[se7entse7en]

As I understand it, in the beginning I believe it was thought that only liberal sympathisers were targeted. If this was the case then whoever was behind the robocalling would have needed to know who those people were... ie privileged information... or something like that.

And now the blaming and fingerpointing is going full swing just like it did with the vikileaks scandal.

Those politicians really are worse than kids.

As an aside, did anybody else find the 'cry session' that occurred after the source of the vikileaks site was discovered to be hilarious?

[nature boy]

do you mean wikileaks?

apparently everyone in the area got a "poll" call to see who they were voting for or something, and with that information those going liberal received a robocall directing them to a non-existent polling station (so they couldn't vote). of course the conservatives would be blamed for it, but seriously, this doesn't sound like the work of politicians (whatever you may think). i would think it sounds more like a bunch of fundamentals either left or right trying to smear the other side.

as i said, a prank gone viral.

[se7entse7en]

Prank or not it is illegal.

No, I meant Vikileaks. A couple of weeks ago Vic Toews was pushing bill C30 - an internet surveilance bill requiring ISPs to install surveilance software in order to monitor the individual internet usage by their customoers. The bill also gives the police the ability to demand any and all of this information from the ISPs without a warrant. Vic also said something like, "You're either for this bill or you're for child pornographers", which offended a number of people.

And then you had the RCMP and VPD saying how they totally support the bill and that we should trust them. Of course the next item on the news was how Corp. Marty Robinson, an alcoholic cop involved in that tazering death at yvr, was being charged with obstructing justice by trying to find a loophole in his drunk driving accident where he killed a motorcyclist. Apparently he left the scene of the accident, walked home, downed a bunch of vodka and then returned to the scene of the accident. Doing this, there was no way of knowing how much alcohol he had before the accident. Cops... gotta love 'em.

Back to the bill:
To fight back against this bill a liberal member of parliament (I believe) set up a vikileaks twitter account and publicised Vic Toews messy divorce records. Note: The information published was public information... not private so no real laws were broken. Still... the conservatives were pissed and accused the ndp of doing it. Turned out it was a liberal that did it.

Other twitter users began tweeting their person information using the hashtag #TellVicEverything. You know... something like, "Hey @ToewsVic, I just thought you should know that I just had an awesome bowel movement. #TellVicEverything."

It was pretty funny.

[nature boy]

oh, i'm aware of the bill c30 thing, i just didn't know it was called vikileaks.
here's rick mercer's rant on the subject: