cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70229482
Instagram takes down a Vancouver strip club’s account due to a sign saying:
CANT HANDLE A POOL BUT WANTS OUR LAKE?
Previously they were suspended from X/twitter for a sign saying:
FOREVER NEIGHBOURS NEVER NEIGHBORS
Some large Social Media companies are quick to censor benign funny messages.
Well f their social media! Stop using American Social media. See how long it takes before they change their tone.
Well here’s a nice example of a Streisand effect.
Wow, that was all it took to get removed? Such a fragile administration
I’m on the verge of fear by an administration that cancels a foreign account posting a non-violent joke… is this a control state?
Yeah this one is extremely bizarre and not at all what I’d expect. Was the post mass reported? Did they have some excuse because it was a strip joint? Because it was in Canada?
the only thing i can think of that makes any amount of sense, is that comments on the image veered off into ‘prohibited content’. zuck’s knee jerked and hit the ban button. this account probably wasn’t the only one affected then, either.
Humpty Trumpty
I wish this was big enough news for people to stop using US software. Probably won’t be tho…
I did as soon as Trump said 51st state the first time. Reddit was the last thing. Switched to Lemmy after the annexation attempt disguised as trade deal.
It’s almost like people have been trained to accept special interests writing the narrative.
It happens slowly at first and then all at once. I know it’s hard to believe, but things do change. It just takes some time for the smell of America shitting itself harder than its Dear Leader to propagate and turn everyone’s stomach. But give it time, we’ve never shit ourselves this hard before, I think this might be the death shit.
I really do hope we all get these shits out of our systems.
Stop pushing for boycotts like they’ll fucking achieve anything. PUNISH THE RICH
Edit: Stopping your government from buying Windows is a good move. Not personally paying for an Office 365 license is an impotent move. It sends about the same message as pissing into the wind.
Isn’t boycotting punishing the rich?
Boycotting worked a whole lot better when markets weren’t global. It’s also just not going to affect the rich in any material way. Their servants will bear the burden of lower sales and be forced to push harder in other markets.
I disagree, let’s say Netflix looses 50% Canadian Market or McDonals looses half the customers as a direct result of boycotting. They won’t want to affect policy change, it won’t affect their bottom lines? What If people from other countries follow the example? That would also spur now investment into domestic market to spur new companies to replace those services . Loblaws and the likes started shutting their pants when Loblaws out of control Sub made news.
I’d rather do something than just talk on an online forum.
A boycott of 50% is as unlikely as 100%. People eating regularly at McDonald’s aren’t in a position to just stop eating at McDonald’s all the time. Boycotts sound nice. I get it. They just don’t work.
Well unlikely and do not work are two ifferent things. They will work if an effort is made.
Well sure. But if you’ve somehow managed to get enough people to put in the same effort and make the same sacrifices together, then maybe you should do more with that insane achievement than just not buy things together. Like, if everyone made an effort and just fucking VOTED on the one day every four years (or two) when it mattered most, you’d also solve a lot of problems. That’s proven impossible for literally decades. But we’re gonna stick it to ‘em by just making our own lives even shittier, en masse, on the off chance some billionaire might be given a memo about a sales dip?
Oh yes, we just need one solution to our political problems, that’s all, just one solution.
edit: /s
I mean… there is a single solution to our political problems. It’s called the guillotine.
USA going full China censorship
Worse then China they are censoring the world.
The world can get off NeoNazi Instagram
I mean tbh I’d prefer Trump go on a renaming temper tantrum than what he’s been doing. Given the options.
I don’t understand the pool reference
He ruined the reflecting pool between the Lincoln memorial and the Washington monument by having his “pool guy” renovate it.
and then driving his fatass over it with the Beast, a 20,000 lb armored limo.
The whole reflecting pool fiasco
TIL The Penthouse is a strip club, just assumed it was a bar.
A strip club is a kind of bar
