Incredible to think Canada could be less than a year away from: • Defunding of CBC News • End of news subsidies, mass layoffs / bankruptcies • Facebook / Twitter blocking or being unusable for distributing news If this happened in other countries, we’d be calling those governments “authoritarian” - ThreadSky

lukelebrun.ca • 126 days ago

Incredible to think Canada could be less than a year away from:

• Defunding of CBC News
• End of news subsidies, mass layoffs / bankruptcies
• Facebook / Twitter blocking or being unusable for distributing news

If this happened in other countries, we’d be calling those governments “authoritarian”

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anakhari.bsky.social•126 days ago

"Bone-headed ignorant dictatorial self-entitled government" is a lot to write. How about... Conservative?

dontvotesplit.bsky.social•126 days ago

Yes, if Poilievre and the Cons win

Let's not let it happen

fordskrackpipe.bsky.social•124 days ago

fordskrackpipe.bsky.social•125 days ago

Let's Go Canada!
Protect our Pension
Heal our Healthcare
Can the Carpetbagger
#NeverVoteConservative

agnesbrowne.bsky.social•125 days ago

Prob. won't end news subsidies as most media is owned by RWNJs from USA.

unionstn.bsky.social•126 days ago

Telling TikTok to shutdown offices in Canada while keeping the reason secret from millions of Canadians who use the app is already pretty bad.

wildplumbay.bsky.social•126 days ago

We were told the reasons: China is stealing all the data to use against Canadians.

unionstn.bsky.social•126 days ago

No, we were not told. They are keeping the reason secret.
And if apps can ‘steal data’ the government should pass laws to protect our data and keep that from happening.

unionstn.bsky.social•126 days ago

“Champagne’s statement did not give details of the security concerns behind the move but referred to risks related to ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of the app.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/07/canada-orders-tiktok-to-close-vancouver-office-over-security-risks

hayleycram.bsky.social•126 days ago

they have it already.
phones are listening.

lexomatic.bsky.social•126 days ago

Lots of people already are

penbird42.bsky.social•126 days ago

Canada declared their branch of the JNF to be terrorists and shut them down. Just because the JNF in Israel murders Arab invaders to give their land back to its rightful owners

jamieoneil.bsky.social•126 days ago

📌

bpsettler.bsky.social•126 days ago

One could argue that both governing parties have decimated our public broadcaster and allowed all corporate media to make itself mostly vacuous. Almost as if this country continues to operate for the best interests of the few at the expense of the many.

lukelebrun.ca•126 days ago

The current Liberal government’s digital policy / journalism strategy will probably be looked back on as one of its biggest policy failures

colleenmr.bsky.social•126 days ago

With so much of legacy media carrying water for the party that would do all of this, I kinda have a hard time with the idea of protecting them even though by and large it isn't the employees's fault.

michaelwade.bsky.social•126 days ago

Hopefully, seeing the Trump clusterfu
will change some minds.

themamiyaman.bsky.social•126 days ago

Facebook is already blocked.

ashleyfoxrpn.bsky.social•126 days ago

Twitter is trending a Premier's birthday. Never seen that before.

hotbeanjuice.bsky.social•126 days ago

Bots can send birthday wishes???

ashleyfoxrpn.bsky.social•126 days ago

All the PC MPPs through copy/paste got it trending.

hayleycram.bsky.social•126 days ago

there will be layoffs to public servants which then make all
services suffer.
cbc is fine with me. i like it.
maybe sell it to a private company.
lots of people bankruptcy now.
will there be more to come yes.

seansnmurphy.ca•126 days ago

that last point is news to me - meta media is already unusable for distributing news?

lukelebrun.ca•126 days ago

I meant in the sense that the two biggest social media platforms over the last decade will either be blocking news content (FB) or a complete dumpster fire (X) going forward

wildplumbay.bsky.social•126 days ago

Bluesky will be replace X.

sir-wm-meredith.bsky.social•126 days ago

That means you have a year to bring the truth to the public, are you up to the task?

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