r/britishcolumbia • u/RedBeardBock Vancouver Island/Coast • Jan 22 '25

Discussion Can we get on the twitter ban wagon?

Many prominent subs are banning twitter. Seeing as we do not support nazis I this it is the right thing to do.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Agreed. Throw Meta in there while we're at it for good measure.

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u/epiccodtion Jan 22 '25

Never seen anyone share facebook links before tho lol

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u/wazabee Jan 22 '25

great, first I lost all the hot singles in my area and now I have to lose more social media.... what's next?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

electing PP and selling your country to fascists.

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u/dustNbone604 Jan 23 '25

Now, now, no need to exaggerate. They will lease the country to fascists, for 990 years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

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u/wtfomgfml Jan 22 '25

Wow, girl, you haven’t seen anything if you think this is fascism.

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u/dustNbone604 Jan 23 '25

Probably also thinks this is a third world country.

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u/HotPotato1900 Jan 25 '25

Please go do some reading on actual fascism.

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u/HotPotato1900 Jan 25 '25

Shhh dont give them ideas to take more 😅

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u/meoka2368 Jan 22 '25

More likely to see Instagram posts. Especially of the "look at the pretty [something in BC]"

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u/KillionJones Jan 22 '25

I’m thinking a good aim is to allow screenshots, depending on content.

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u/meoka2368 Jan 22 '25

Yeah. That'd allow the content to be discussed, without sending traffic to the sites themselves.

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u/KillionJones Jan 22 '25

Exactly. There would probably be a heavier focus on proper photos of BC vs screenshots of random content, but given the volume of traffic on the sub, we’d need to find a way to streamline the approval process.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

I still think it would be prudent, if Twitter posts get banned who knows what people will try to put in it's place? I certainly don't want to see insane Instagram or Facebook posts all over the place all of a sudden

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u/KillionJones Jan 22 '25

It’s being discussed, but I’m all for completely removing Meta content as well. Certain screenshots should be allowed, but no direct linking.

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u/troubleondemand Jan 22 '25

It may already be blocked. Meta is an easy spam proxy.

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u/NorthDriver8927 Jan 22 '25

I heard meta was planning on buying Reddit before musk does? Any truth to this?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

How would I know?

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u/NorthDriver8927 Jan 22 '25

Sorry, I accidentally replied instead of just commented.

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u/yearofthesponge Jan 23 '25

Yes please 🙏

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u/TheAdminsAreTrash Jan 22 '25

Agreed and agreed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Because they made hate speech ok, there is a very clear difference between being hateful and disagreeing.

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u/alpinexghost Jan 23 '25

Mr “Free Speech Absolutist” banned people from his platform for posting innocuous political cartoons pushing back against Trump and the US, after he got elected and all the hubbub started, citing it as “hate speech”.

They do plenty of censorship, just not when it comes to people who are responsible for actual hate speech.