A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election
A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election
The accounts are pumping out thousands of posts about the Canadian economy and alleged support within Canada for U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threat.
It’s disgusting and unacceptable that Canadian institutions and politicians still use that site.
That fucking dickhead has citizenship in Canada, a matter that needs to be corrected. His grandfather got kicked out for trying the same bullshit here.
My emotional instinct is to agree. My rational brain has serious concerns about revoking citizenship as a punishment.
If this was to be done, it would have to be done with the most extreme caution possible. Paper citizens with zero ties to the country and who promote treason, but not just Canadians we are super mad at.
I’m torn because on the one hand I’m concerned about the precedent and how a hypothetical future CPC PM might abuse it. Then again the American example shows that not having precedent set isn’t a huge barrier to evil policy, and the CPC shares near-identical ideology to them.
At the very least though we can encourage our representatives and institutions to cut ties with X
Tell elections Canada to investigate Twitter! Stop Elon Musk the nazi.
For the love of God, can we just ban X in Canada already??
And fuck any and all government entities still using it.
It's not just X. All the big social media platforms are flooded with bot networks now. It's impossible to engage genuinely in public discourse on them with accounts you don't personally know. The well of social media is being actively poisoned every day by manipulative bad actors.
I think maybe it's time for Canada to ban twitter, for national security reasons.
And issue some arrest warrants
The usual, This is how trump wins. Last time he used Cambridge Analytica
Time to block Twitter by whatever name it’s called. The world would be a better place.
I'm always surprised people actually still use that site. I've literally only ever used it to type in is xbox down?
And now that you are boycotting Microsoft and cancelled your Xbox game pass, you won't even have to do that any more. Right?
How would regulators, governments, politicians and advocates feel if newspapers were unregulated and allowed to print and publish whatever they wanted?
How would everyone react if Muskrat owned the single largest newspaper in the country that everyone read and used every day and no one not even the government had a say in what was published or spread. What would people say if that single newspaper was the primary source of information for the majority of everyone in the country?
Why the hell do we allow a big corporate social media company free reign over and unregulated control to provide citizen access to news and information?
There's always a problem proposing that social media companies be held legally responsible for the content their users create. If they can get sued for anything anyone says in a post, it could become impossible for anyone to run a social media site or even a web forum.
The exact same argument could be made for newspapers, magazines, television, film or books .... these businesses are all regulated, yet they are able to still generate a profit under tight controls, social media corporations would be able to do the same.
We need to regulate it because it is all warping the fabric of our society
If all newspapers, books and TV and broadcasting news was all unregulated, what do you think would happen? That exact scenario is playing out over the internet ... we are allowing the virtual spread of misinformation, disinformation, non-information and outright lies and we are wondering why our world is falling apart.
@ininewcrow @Sunshine Because some politicians made a deal with the social media devils and got ahead because of it. Now even if they werent compromized they would want to lose their competetive advantage would they? For the good of the people.
That might be the dumbest Elon Pic I've seen so far...
He's wearing the coats of the sheep.
Unpaywalled anyone?