You let them have total media control and censorship and then act surprised when they use it.
Canadians, time for change!
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
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Do you have a source for that? The reports I've read suggested he was a Canadian citizen, despite having his immigration applications rejected in the 90s.
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#23Politics 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).
India (among other countries) have passed so called "hostage-taking laws" that require large social media companies to have in-country employees that can be strong-armed from ways small to large (threats of being convicted of treason and executed).
This is a specific policy to allow them to enforce their censorship laws in other countries.
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#24India 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…
I’m no fan of Trudeau, but way to shoot the messenger. And ramble incoherently about conspiracy theories.
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
https://apnews.com/article/0e6f0ac0a5cc41bb83832267a9d42560
lol. No.
But the family does have a very extensive and documented history for love of tyrants:
https://macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-tyra...
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#26For 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.
What a ridiculous generalization. Sikhs are capable of being dangerous just as any other group of people are.
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#27For 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.
That's the problem with generalization:
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
He was a Canadian citizen: https://globalnews.ca/news/9969537/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijj...
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#29Shouldn’t have pushed Bill C-18 then
If you took 10 seconds to read, it's not at all C-18 related. It's entirely related to India being able to strong-arm Facebook to comply.
Re: Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
What? He was a Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar