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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 slashdev »

antx wrote: post #27
slashdev wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sikh_terrorism

There are bad people in every group. I’m going to go with: what’s your point?

I stand by my statement until shown statistical evidence to the contrary. This link is insufficient.

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

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Post by pharrington »

happytiger wrote: post #21

You let them have total media control and censorship and then act surprised when they use it. Canadians, time for change!

You're saying Canadians let Facebook have total media control?

The blame lies on Mark Zuckerberg. This is a Mark Zuckerberg (or more generally, unfettered capitalism) problem.

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

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Post by whycome »

cperciva wrote: post #15
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #4

Earlier 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.

Where did you access information that this became truth for you?

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

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Post by Sanzig »

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…

The evidence is certainly classified and disclosure of details would probably result in unacceptable risk to Canadian and/or other Five Eyes intelligence assets. This is not a court of law, the Canadian government is not obliged to give up the identities of its sources.

Trudeau briefed the leaders of the opposition ahead of the announcement and they are all offering a united front on this. That's enough for me to infer that the intelligence on this must be rock solid.

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

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Post by antx »

slashdev wrote: post #38
edgyquant wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a ridiculous generalization. Sikhs are capable of being dangerous just as any other group of people are.

What a ridiculous comment. Are you trying to say all groups are equally dangerous? You know that’s ridiculous right? If you want to say Sikhs are at least as dangerous as the average, I’m open to see a statistical argument to support that position. I don’t think it’s true, but I could be convinced.

False equivalency fallacy.

You are assuming an extreme position that nobody expressed.

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

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Post by root_axis »

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…

We didn't "agree it was a good idea", this is just how the federated network we call the internet works. It's facebook's prerogative to determine what type of content appears on facebook's website.

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

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Post by mabbo »

To those saying "But Bill C-18" - it's not the Canadian government taking things down. It's the Indian government, taking down articles and posts that accuse them of assassinating a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.

C-18 is a problem. We need to deal with it. That's not relevant to the issue at hand.

And to those saying "Well he was a terrorist..." we, in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law. You have to prove someone is guilty, in court, with real evidence. They serve time in prison for their crimes. They can be extradited to other countries to face court there.

If Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist, and there was sufficient evidence to convict him, the Indian government should have brought it to the Canadian Government. It's very simple really.

Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that.

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

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Post by jpambrun »

dblohm7 wrote: post #9

Play stupid games (Canadian government bill C-18 [1]), win stupid prizes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act

Facebook is not playing a smart game either. The government is already and understandably furious at India for this encroachment to sovereignty (the murder of a Canadian in Canada by a foreign state), it was also already not happy at Facebook for their previous encroachment to sovereignty (the blocking of Canadian news), and now it has more reason to be mad at Facebook for this latest encroachment to sovereignty of applying Indian law on Canadian citizens. I imagine the pushback could be very strong.

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

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Post by slashdev »

antx wrote: post #46
slashdev wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a ridiculous comment. Are you trying to say all groups are equally dangerous? You know that’s ridiculous right? If you want to say Sikhs are at least as dangerous as the average, I’m open to see a statistical argument to support that position. I don’t think it’s true, but I could be convinced.

False equivalency fallacy. You are assuming an extreme position that nobody expressed.

Perhaps, which is why I phrased it as a question.
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