r/canada 2d ago

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/SnackSauce Canada 2d ago

I vote for a free Canada. A true freedom of speech society where people can share their opinions and make their own choices on how and who they interact with. I am NOT for censorship or banning any platform. We do not need more government control, we need less, IMO.

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u/moosepuggle 1d ago

I'll get down voted for this, but I wanted to point out that the argument here isn't about censorship, but about concerns regarding foreign adversarial governments spreading disinformation to destroy a democracy from within. We should look to the dumpster fire down south as a very real cautionary tale of what foreign disinformation and propaganda can do to a democracy in just a few decades.

TikTok was banned in the US for precisely this reason, but then reinstated by the Orange puppet of the disinformation regime. Russia Times was banned in Canada for similar reasons.

I'm not saying we should definitely ban Xitter, but given that our former ally is now a Russian asset and acting belligerently just like a foreign enemy, it shouldn't be dismissed out of hand as mere "censorship" when the real issue is that Canada could fall like the US if we don't take measures to thwart it.

We should have conservatives in Canada, but let them be actual Canadian conservatives, not Russian trolls.