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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 #48

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 pr…

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You're comparing extra-judicial murder to mask mandates?

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

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post #37

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> 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’…

> In North America. This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected When it comes to assassination, maybe. But China conducts extra-judicial operations in Canada, and even deport citizens (send back to China), with little respect for Canada's sovereignty. * Search for china+secret+police+canada and make your own mind. Obviously the CCP denies it and the Canadian government is mute. So you only have the mainstre…

At least in the US the Chinese government is letting their (supposed) agents dangle for doing this: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-are-chinas-allege...

So there are 2 differences here: - targeting their own citizens rather than the host nations - not killing them

Those are pretty big differences for international relations purposes.

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

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post #54

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Calling Nijjar a Sikh leader is like calling Bin Laden an Islamic leader.

Bin Laden openly admitted his actions (in proud propaganda). I would like the same level of evidence about Nijjar that can warrant this analogy/comparison . Can you provide this evidence?

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

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post #67
post #48

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 pr…

> Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that. Oh yeah? What's the word for accusing someone for murdering without an iota of proof?

> Oh yeah? What's the word for accusing someone for murdering without an iota of proof?

A murder accusation. What's your point?

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

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post #109

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A bomb in an Air India plane done by Sikh can hardly be called a terrorist attack in Canada.

The bomb was planted on the plane in Canada, the attack was planned in Canada, the terrorists were Sikh Canadians, and the attack killed 268 Canadian citizens...

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

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post #48

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 pr…

The word for it is "extrajudicial killing."

Murder or assassination

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

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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.

That’s so not how things work . Facebook is a US company first of all if anything it is only liable to US laws. It has stated that it’ll respect local laws as needed, so if India wants to remove posts it should be geo restricted in India not globally at all, not that banning posts is right to begin with. But this is not right.

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

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post #9

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

From the article's first paragraph:

"Canadian Sikh Facebook users posting about the assassination of a Sikh community leader are seeing posts disappear and accounts suspended in response to legal demands by the Indian government."

What does that have to do with C-18?

Nothing? Less then nothing?

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

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post #67

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> Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that. Oh yeah? What's the word for accusing someone for murdering without an iota of proof?

The prime minister put his credibility that of the government on the line. They obviously have evidence and are convinced of this being factual as the price to pay for being wrong will be very steep. By the way, the word you are looking for would be the same for someone accusing of lying or deception without an iota of proof.

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

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post #27

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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.

> There are bad people in every group

What about Tibetan Buddhists? They have been highly persecuted. Yet only thing they set fire to is their own body.

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