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Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by tenpies »

nik282000 wrote: post #3

India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada over any political dispute. More so after the stupidity of demanding that Facebook pay Bell for linking to 'Bell's' content.

Also importantly: Trudeau has yet to show evidence. This could easily be misinformation and disinformation.

Trudeau is notorious for lying, dividing people, and "interpreting differently" things, especially when all the attention is on his crumbling regime and mismanagement of virtually everything in Canada.

And it should raise everyone's flags that Trudeau, who has done everything possible to obstruct and derail the inquiry into Chinese election interference which likely put him in power - including saying that the information is classified - suddenly decides to share highly classified information from Canadian intelligence.

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by lainga »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #6
eureka-belief wrote: post #2

India’s government is apparently confidently enough in India’s global influence to be putting pressure on Canada and Facebook. Just thinking out loud, if some parts of India started breaking away from India, that could start a chain reaction. India has incredibly diverse sets of citizens, each with their own set of cultural identities and historical grievances. Maintaining national unity has been a struggle since Ind…

> suppression of separatists If true, this was a stupid move. They’ve martyred a separatist while bringing him and his cause international sympathy and attention. The assassins have carried out an action resembling an attack on a founding member of NATO and close ally of America’s. In North America. This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected. Not out of fear, but rational self interest. If true, New Delhi’…

> This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected

Partly because they were on the other side. It's different here (if true) because, as the BBC points out -

"Western powers would have to make a choice between backing Ottawa or New Delhi, a choice between supporting the principle of the rule of law or the hard necessity of realpolitik."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66856568

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by thuridas »

shrikant wrote: post #8
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> suppression of separatists If true, this was a stupid move. They’ve martyred a separatist while bringing him and his cause international sympathy and attention. The assassins have carried out an action resembling an attack on a founding member of NATO and close ally of America’s. In North America. This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected. Not out of fear, but rational self interest. If true, New Delhi’…

> This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected. Well, Russia is pretty fine with carrying out extra-judicial assassination attempts of undesirables on UK soil, so it's not clear this line is true any more.

And Russia is paying for it in weapons from UK to Ukraine.

Also remember the killing in Turk soil by Saudi Arabia

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by cperciva »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #4
nik282000 wrote: post #3

India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada over any political dispute. More so after the stupidity of demanding that Facebook pay Bell for linking to 'Bell's' content.

> India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada To be super clear, if India actually assassinated a Canadian in Canada, this becomes relevant in America and Europe. (At best it means New Delhi has a rogue security element.) This is not an editorial decision by Facebook. It’s the mindless implementation of complex policies.

Edited to remove misinformation.

Sorry, I was misled by news articles about the individual's status in Canada which were published prior to the announcement earlier today that he became a citizen in 2015.

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by darth_avocado »

Politics aside, this feels like a good policy question? How do laws apply in the context of a global platform like Facebook. Something may be in violation of a law in one country, but be totally acceptable in another. Should sovereign citizens on one country be subjected to laws of another? If Twitter files showed us anything, posts get taken down at the request of the government (including US and Canada).

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by gustavus »

For those wondering this isn't because of their boneheaded law the official justification is

> Your page has been unpublished,” reads a notice sent to BC Sikhs that was reviewed by PressProgress. “This is because BC Sikhs goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations.

I for one am so glad that we agreed it was a good idea for social media to censor dangerous people and opinions, especially ones that might spread misinformation. It is a good precedent going forward that I do not think will have any unintended consequences.

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by foobarian »

tenpies wrote: post #11
nik282000 wrote: post #3

India has 25x the population of Canada, Facebook has no reason to side with Canada over any political dispute. More so after the stupidity of demanding that Facebook pay Bell for linking to 'Bell's' content.

Also importantly: Trudeau has yet to show evidence. This could easily be misinformation and disinformation. Trudeau is notorious for lying, dividing people, and "interpreting differently" things, especially when all the attention is on his crumbling regime and mismanagement of virtually everything in Canada. And it should raise everyone's flags that Trudeau, who has done everything possible to obstruct and derail the…

To top it all off isn't Trudeau Fidel Castro's son?

Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader

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Post by slashdev »

gustavus wrote: post #17

For those wondering this isn't because of their boneheaded law the official justification is > Your page has been unpublished,” reads a notice sent to BC Sikhs that was reviewed by PressProgress. “This is because BC Sikhs goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations. I for one am so glad that we agreed it was a good idea for social media to censor dangerous people and opinions, espe…

> BC Sikhs goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations.

This is hilarious to anyone who knows any Sikhs. They’re some of the most peace loving people on planet earth.

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