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submitted 3 months ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Everything the Americans said about TikTok and more can be said about Twitter/X’s dangerous role in Canada.

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[-] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 62 points 3 months ago
[-] TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago

Wait! There are Canadians still using X? Off with their heads!!

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

Saskatchewan’s DUI hire is still using it. Moe-ron publishes all his public statements there, I personally cannot see them because I do not have an X account but they are shared on Reddit. Scotch Moe is doing less than the bare minimum when it comes to the Canada-US trade war. Slow Moe spent about a month down in DC prior to the official launch of the tariffs trying to talk to people to get it stopped or something. I am blanking on any of the other names for the premier of Saskatchewan.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I'm partial to Australia's name for their own rotten Scott: Scummo.

[-] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Inciting violence!!!!

Better to just revoke their citizenship and deport them. Make the X Canadians into ex-Canadians.

[-] TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

You are assuming decapitation would cause injury. I am pretty sure their brain body connection has been severed, as evidenced by their continued use of That Site. Thus any message from the nociceptors never gets past the neck anyway.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

Do meta next!

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And meta, in fact all the American social apps.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago
[-] cloudhands@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Just stop using it!! Meaning government officials agencies etc. It blows my mind that any thing close to any level of government in Canada still has or uses an account there

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

They said such an app could be used for espionage and tracking down locations of federal employees and contractors.

But an operating system by an American corporation, and its office software, and authentication services, used by governments, business and citizens, is just fine.

I understand Twitter is used as a propaganda tool, but if we are also talking about espionage and tracking, then we should also pay attention to how many people and organizations are using companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google.

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's all just bots anyway. At least 80%

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago
[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't shed a tear if this happened.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Shut down that shit!!! Fuck X.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

What Twitter/X has done is no conduct that the Canadian people would tolerate if they were conducted by a corporation that was aligned with, say, the government of China

And yet, we did not ban TikTok. Nor did the Americans, when it came down to it. Perhaps they saw no prospect of such a law surviving the legal challenges that would rise against it.

As a general rule, the government can’t simply ban speech it dislikes. The government in Canada would perhaps have a marginally easier time of it with our less complete constitutional protection of the freedom of expression, but it would remain a bad idea, unlikely to succeed legally and very likely to do more harm than good if it did stand. It's wrong to say that "no reasonable jurisprudence would defend" Canadians' rights to visit the website and run the software of their choice when doing so is not in violation of any laws other than an arbitrary ban on one specific vendor who is disliked.

If social media firms have engaged in practices that should be illegal, then make those practices illegal. It will be discovered that once they are identified and specified, far more than just Facebook and Twitter will be affected. That is as it should be. The government of Canada should do what it can, and not attempt to do what it cannot. It should pass data privacy laws that make the worst practices of surveillance capitalist social media illegal in Canada. Legislate directly against the "data harvesting" and ad targeting.

And obviously, first of all, the government should stop using Twitter and Facebook, stop promoting them on government web sites, and thereby start leading people away from that shit instead of towards it. Here's the petition again, which has 15000 signatures so far and lots of time left to sign it.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

It is about more than speech.

It is a genuine threat to our nation.

[-] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago
[-] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm all in favour of Canadians taking up the cause of helping their American (not-Trumplican) cousins.

(edited to honor the heroism of my Canadian cousins)

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Favour, we are in Canada gosh darn it!

[-] DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

David Climenhaga is a journalist and trade union communicator who has worked in senior writing and editing positions with the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald

"Mean's" in the headline.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Everyone seem’s to be doing that now and I hate it.

[-] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Good Lord, I thought that was just the OP's screwup. Nope, it's on the actual source page. What a bummer.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I dunno if the government should be babying us by banning it because I'm sure a replacement would just spring up immediately anyway.

Maybe they should just go after the dumbasses who spread misinformation or promote violence to the best of their ability. Oh but definitely make government agencies and officials stop using the platform though.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

There already are replacements. Replacements not owned by fascists.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I see what you mean. Even if we ban it, the toxic users would find another platform, but we could hurt Musk's bottom line by making the users migrate. In that case, then, I'm not so opposed to the ban.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Canadian government could even set up their own Mastodon server and disallow public sign-up, ensuring that fakes could be easily spotted.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Deleted it yesterday, I never used it but i got around to deactivating it properly this time

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Best time was years ago, but now will work.

[-] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So, the Great Firewall of Canada?

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