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Warrants are issued by judges. There are few things that a politician hates more than having to answer to a judge.

All of the Internet surveillance and censorship policies proposed and implemented around the world attempt to bypass judges. USA (Patriot Act), Australia (mandatory filtering), and now Canada. The usual excuse, of course, is that things on the the Internet move too quickly to wait for due process to take its course.




Aren't judges politicians?


In Canada judges aren't elected so technically I wouldn't call them politicians.




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