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Title: From YouTube to Twitter, Ottawa heard it all during the G20
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2011-01-11 20:28:08
Canadian

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The Summits Management Office generated weekly reports on Internet chatter, complete with graphs and charts that tracked Web commentary and measured how successful government announcements tied to the meetings were in their �penetration� of mainstream media and blogs.
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Bureaucrats even counted whether bloggers were anti-Israel or pro-Israel when they drew links between pre-summit announcements on nuclear non-proliferation talks, a visit to Canada by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel's interception of ships trying to break the Gaza Strip blockade.

Big Brother is watching you.

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[Curtman]

Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:

Oh good. They know we're generally pissed.

And did nothing about it.

You could call your MP and tell him that you want to see a public inquiry

Public inquiry into abuse of citizens’ rights at G20 needed, MPs told

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“We actually observed a systematic targeting of social justice movements in Canada over the period leading up to the G20 demonstrations and during them and after,” he stated in testimony at the Commons public safety committee.

It amounted to a “systemic repression of critics and those who oppose the policies of this (Conservative) government,” said Leitold, who is part of the Law Union’s Movement Defence Committee. This group provides legal support for “progressive” and “social justice” organizations in Toronto, he told MPs.