• kbal@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Canada should not ban individual social media services one at a time. It can’t be justified, constitutionally or morally. Canada should instead pass a privacy law that prohibits the surveillance capitalist dirty tricks that make them profitable, and design regulations that require interoperability.

    Of course that would require a government capable of designing good tech regulation, which we don’t seem to have much chance of seeing around here any time soon.

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      3 days ago

      We are currently at war with the owner of the website. We have justification for banning something that can be used against us in that war.

      It would be like continuing to use American Air defense systems against the Americans in a full scale war.

      While I agree we just need better legislation overall, I also think banning specific American social media is a smart move for everyone involved considering they are all in Trumps pocket.

      We shouldn’t be using products and services of hostile foreign nations. This isn’t a freedumb or mahrights thing.