Banning it just causes them to be the victim.
Put a massive tax on all of the multinational american leech corporations that control our media. Musk isn't the cause of the problem, he's a symptom of it.
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Who cares if they're perceived as the victim? People will forget about Twitter within 6 months if it's blocked, and during that time, the propaganda machine takes a hit.
I do believe we have a system for that now thought the digital tax act that JT and the liberals along with the NDP AND bloc pushed through. Allows us to levy taxes on tech companies and I think it was meant for exactly this
Yes please!
Wait! There are Canadians still using X? Off with their heads!!
Saskatchewanβs 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.
Inciting violence!!!!
Better to just revoke their citizenship and deport them. Make the X Canadians into ex-Canadians.
do it.
And meta, in fact all the American social apps.
It's all just bots anyway. At least 80%
I wouldn't shed a tear if this happened.
Shut down that shit!!! Fuck X.
So, the Great Firewall of Canada?
Do it!
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 canβt 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.
It is about more than speech.
It is a genuine threat to our nation.
I'm all in favor of Canadians taking up the cause of helping their American (not-Trumplican) cousins.
Favour, we are in Canada gosh darn it!
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.
Everyone seemβs to be doing that now and I hate it.