Maybe we just need to ban all social media for the last 2 weeks leading up to an election, similar to how many countries ban publishing polls in the final stretch before an election.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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I might be wrong, but the UK I believe has laws against the media talking about elections like the day before and day of polling.
That's just blanket censorship, breaking up social media companies and forcing their federation, shut down is a better deal imo.
Simply banning mass forms of communication is backwards and will obviously lead to accusations of rigging for the incumbent party.
That only works if they're from that country
Maybe we need to find the spine to auto-lock/auto-ban all such enemy-agent bots.
WELL past-time we did-so.
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Canada should ban twatter. It's a Nazi disinformation and propaganda platform anyways...
Those that still use X is a nazi in my book.
AOC... Nazi
Bernie Sanders... Nazi
Can the community help me name some other surprising Nazis?
Even when statistical data supports these huge sweeping statements there will always be outliers but they will be few.
Given Leon’s blatant support of the Nazi’s. Then I believe the saying goes “If the shoe fits”.
That's quite a prolapsed opinion
They should shut it down, at least during elections but really just for good would be perfect.
Ban it forever. It’s a common pattern from them
You need to block X and musk from your country before any election. He will start paying your voters to vote the way he wishes.
They should ban it. And if people still try to go on, hopefully those smart enough to use VPNs are smart enough to see through the ruse
Just ban the site. Everyone should be banning American social networks.
Ban X lmao governments are goofy as fuck
it's easier to run the bots from the inside, ain't it, muskrat?
Who uses twitter?
Chinese or American bots? There is a lot of psyops involved.
Mostly American and some Indian lol. Lots of liberals left Twitter anyways so they're being targeted on different platforms, but Facebook and X are breeding grounds for astroturfed pro American/ Alberta separatist bullshit.
All the convoy types as you would expect are eating up and regurgitating anything remotely negative.
I see a lot of Russian and Chinese bots as well in Shitter(previously Twitter).
I'd sure love to see Canada and the UK simply shut X down within their borders. There were some grumbling awhilemago, in the UK Parliament of naming Musk as an extremist, based on his ability to not only buy influence, but his ability through X to promote or censor speech as he likes, influencing elections, or even overthrowing governments.
Just forbid X and filter out their IP range. Problem solved.
Wait, there's still people on twitter? I left when Phony Stark took over, the writing was on the wall at that point.