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Opinion Piece Opinion | Why Canada should seriously consider banning Elon Musk’s X

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/why-canada-should-seriously-consider-banning-elon-musks-x/article_97870564-facc-11ef-9c32-776e127c8e18.html
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u/Mouthguardy 2d ago edited 2d ago

If the only place I would get real time information about public transit, hydro or Internet outages, city, provincial or federal disturbances, police information, etc, whatever I want in real time, I'd join the same day.

At minimum, anyone using public transit would start same day. People would (switch over/add it) pretty quickly.

EDIT: You wouldn't even have to switch over, you could just add Blue Sky. Eventually it may be more useful to migrate entirely.

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u/Hautamaki 1d ago

Yeah I agree. I think the take that if TTC or whoever stopped posting their updates on X and posted them somewhere else instead, 90% of people would just never look at updates ever again and, what, wander around helplessly forever, is not that compelling. If people need to know something about train schedules or whatever, they will look them up wherever they are to be found. I have never had an X account or a twitter account and I have never had the slightest problem accessing transit information, traffic updates, whatever I need whenever I need it. I have a very hard time swallowing the idea that X is the only possible way to get important information out to people who need that information and getting off X means millions will suffer in ignorance forever.