- 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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Brazilian here. Without twitter (as we insist to call it) for like 40 days due to a supreme-court ban. Extreme right got mad because they couldn’t publish their fake news and other conspiracy shit. Maybe you should take a breath of this sickhead network too.
ban starlink too, it is a spying security risk.
Ban it. It’s too late for us, save yourselves!
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.
I suggest a tariff on the use of US-based social media. They’re all bad.
I guess Elon is privy to most Canadian Government contact information. Hopefully this’ll change soon.
It is difficult to claim Canada has a more robust freedom of expression in one sentence and then follow it with BAN X in the next.
Expression becomes more free when you ban Nazis and other fascists.
When you say “nazi or fascist” what you really mean is anyone that disagrees with me.
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?
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.
💯 the only correct response. It’s a hostile entity undermining your country.
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.
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. :-(
SIGN THE PETITION! BAN TWITTER!!!
I don’t think they should ban it but ever since they are forcing a sign in to view anything they should stop using it for all levels of government.
