- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
Summary:
Concerns About Social Media: The author draws parallels between concerns that led to discussions about banning TikTok in the U.S. and the current state of X (formerly Twitter).
X as a Threat: The author argues that X, under Elon Musk’s ownership, poses a threat to Canadian democracy.
Increased Racism and Misinformation: The platform is described as having become more racist and a source of increasing misinformation since Musk’s acquisition.
Content Moderation: Musk’s leadership is criticized for gutting content moderation, unbanning alt-right figures, and turning the platform into a partisan propaganda machine.
“Free Speech Absolutism”: Musk’s defense of his actions using “free speech absolutism” is dismissed as untenable.
Canadian Law: Canadian freedom of expression law is noted to be more robust than that of the U.S., allowing for reasonable limits on speech.
Foreign Influence: The author suggests that X’s current conduct would not be tolerated if it were aligned with a government like China.
Musk and Trump: Musk’s close ties to Donald Trump and the potential for pro-Trump propaganda targeting Canadian voters are highlighted as a specific threat.
Echoes of the Broadcasting Act: The author draws a parallel to the Broadcasting Act of 1958, which restricted foreign ownership of broadcasters to protect Canadian discourse.
Message to Social Media Companies: Banning X would send a message to other social media companies about their responsibilities to Canadians.
Call to Action: The author urges the current Prime Minister to ban X before the next election.
Trump’s annexation comments: Notes Trump’s comments about annexing Canada.
X as an Anti-Canadian Propaganda Machine: Concludes that X should be treated as a real threat.
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You guys should ban it, if for no other reason it would be very funny to do so
Please do. It was a good idea for the US to ban TikTok due to Chinese security law, and of course the worst man on earth granted it a reprieve.
Also, when are you guys going to denaturalize Musk? He cheated on his US citizenship, so I hold out a shred of hope that after his rampage is ended and it all wraps up, we’ll revoke his citizenship as fraudulent and he’ll have to return to a failed state that’s following in Robert Mugabe’s anti-white race war footsteps. Can’t think of a better place on this earth for a Nazi to belong to.
Yes, but first your government should operate a mastodon node and give all of your ministries and employees time to migrate.
Germany declared Facebook and X to be national security risks, so they’ve been running their own mastodon instances for years
That’s awesome! Yes each country, region, municipality should have their own instance. I’ve spun up a Lemmy instance and going to try and make grassroots in roads by going to local businessses and trying to get them to sign up.
Its a chicken and the egg dilemma. Trying to get users is hard, but if there are businesses that interact with local users then there’s something more whole some. Not zucc, musky, or the other broligarchs making pennies on each local interaction. Their power needs to be usurped by the people.
I think one instance per country is sufficient. Maybe per State. But there’s really no need for each city to have their own instance
That’s the beauty, I spun up my own and you can too. It allows for data sovereignty and ownership if you own your own node and once critical mass is reached then its game over for established social media oligarchs. SReddit is issuing warnings and likely only time before they kiss the ring for Cheeto Mussolini and ban and dissenting opinions.
Beyond the sensationalized article headline, the key is for politicians and community leaders to leave twitter all together. We don’t need to ban it, we need to make twitter obsolete.
I wrote all of the MPs and a lot of the media in Canada saying this. We would not use weapons provided by the opposing side in a traditional, why are we using them in a trade war?
SIGN THE PETITION! BAN TWITTER!!!
💯 the only correct response. It’s a hostile entity undermining your country.
This would be like if Canada got rid of all national newspapers, news broadcasters and news organizations and instead handed the responsibility of delivering the news to the people of Canada to one company owned by one billionaire who isn’t even Canadian.
We would never allow that to happen … but the fact that X exists and has so much power over people … we essentially made this possible.
Alas, we’re trying it South of the border. The review: 0/10 would not recommend. :-(
Nobody should be using Titter… Sorry I meant Twitter. Please continue to use Titter.
And Post Media
Absolutely, not sure why we allow an institutionalized foreign influence campaign like this. It’s actively undermining our nation
Why not instead flood X with tons of pro-Canadian content/shitposting (for great justice)? Maybe they could band together with other countries & do an all-out offensive against X, overwhelming their servers?
I’d bring out popcorn for that.
I’m not for adding a great Internet firewall. Just see it for what it is, advertise against it instead. Adding a great Canadian firewall is going to introduce other issues.
Nah. You shouldn’t be able to say Nazi shit in Canada without repercussions. The owner of twitter is a Nazi. It should be banned here. The free market of ideas is a lie told by Nazis to make it legal for them to recruit others into Nazism.
You’re not really arguing against the point. My point is I don’t agree with a firewall on Canada’s internet. I believe it should be free and open.
TwitterX is a different thing. Go after the business instead. The real enemy is lack of education. Having a firewall on Canada is not going to prevent people from being convinced to be Nazis.
Change our laws to make the social network responsible for what is posted if it is foreign owned. Canadian owned can have the shield. That’ll kill them, fb, reddit and the rest in Canada and we’ll see homegrown replacements take shape. Governments at all levels should not be using social media, they should have central websites/apps where they can post information that can be spread by RSS. Canadians would be free to repost to any network they want to discuss but the government, imo shouldn’t be on these networks.
Outright ban is not good. They need to give people an off ramp. Move officials to other platforms. Promote those accounts. Release news first on mastodon or bluesky and part article writers to use that screenshot over the x post.
