Everything the Americans said about TikTok and more can be said about Twitter/X’s dangerous role in Canada.

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    20 hours ago

    Just stop using it!! Meaning government officials agencies etc. It blows my mind that any thing close to any level of government in Canada still has or uses an account there

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    They said such an app could be used for espionage and tracking down locations of federal employees and contractors.

    But an operating system by an American corporation, and its office software, and authentication services, used by governments, business and citizens, is just fine.

    I understand Twitter is used as a propaganda tool, but if we are also talking about espionage and tracking, then we should also pay attention to how many people and organizations are using companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google.

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    I dunno if the government should be babying us by banning it because I’m sure a replacement would just spring up immediately anyway.

    Maybe they should just go after the dumbasses who spread misinformation or promote violence to the best of their ability. Oh but definitely make government agencies and officials stop using the platform though.

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    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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      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

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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.

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      You can’t think like this anymore. We are dealing with fascists. We are bordering Germany pre-WWII. Any nonviolent action that will give us an advantage in a theoretical conflict is necessary.

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        Saskatchewan’s 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.

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        Inciting violence!!!

        Better to just revoke their citizenship and deport them. Make the X Canadians into ex-Canadians.

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          You are assuming decapitation would cause injury. I am pretty sure their brain body connection has been severed, as evidenced by their continued use of That Site. Thus any message from the nociceptors never gets past the neck anyway.

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      If you absolutely need to use a social media network like that choose another decentralized one, like Mastodon.

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    Some canadian youtubers rely on X for advertising but otherwise I would put as much distance between yourself and x as possible