Should the Government of Canada continue to use the bird site to share important official information?

Geoff Wozniak

@Paulatics I really appreciate you raising these points.

Senator Paula Simons

@wbpeckham Ok, I’ll bite. What is peer tube?

Gordon J Holtslander

@Paulatics SK politicians were critiszied by its own privacy commisioner: ""Questions about security and records management arise if and when government leaders or employees use non-government email accounts to do government-related activities," Kruzeniski writes." on using communication services that escape oversight. Twitter is no different than a private email service. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatchewan-privacy-commissioner-1.4156815

Senator Paula Simons

@GeoffWozniak Thank you. We all got ourselves in trouble by naively treating Twitter and Facebook like public utilities. A big mistake.

Senator Paula Simons

@sleepy62 Agreed.

Senator Paula Simons

This, btw, is a column I wrote in late 2022, right after I quit Twitter - and joined Mastodon. Perhaps even more relevant now. https://albertaviews.ca/goodbye-to-twitter/ #X #Xodus #Twitter #Alberta #Edmonton #yeg

Action Jay 🐾 :CApride:

@Paulatics awesome work. I'd love to see a collection of Canadian run federated sites providing local/niche coverage with more resistance to outside tampering like we've been seeing

Lorbs

@Paulatics

Good question.

Non answer.

@Paulatics
Thank you for that, please do follow up. I'd also like the Senate to consider hosting a Mastodon instance (perhaps with the help of a special webmeister we both appreciate) to demonstrate to the government how it too can reach Canadians and still be under full control of the govt instead vany corporate control. The EU has realized this...

Lynn D

@Paulatics thank you for raising this issue Senator.

DC Deejay

@Paulatics Thank you Senator, and please draw attention to our shared digital information spaces—critical infrastructure—whenever you can.

Canadians need protection from bad actors, foreign and domestic, who'd love for us to check out or turn against each other.

...and it seems like most of us aren't even aware that there is a problem.

Senator Paula Simons

@dcdeejay I fear that is all too true.

Hamish Buchanan

Good questions.

Certainly X should be excluded, but it is also time to ask if governments at all levels should be relying on politically biased media, such as X, FB/IG, or the commercial newspapers/networks to get messages out. People shouldn't have to use those platforms in order to stay informed.

On the other hand, how can governments get essential information out to publics which increasingly rely exclusively on social media for their news?

@Paulatics

Martin from Toronto

@Paulatics Well done. Senitor Gold certainly felt very uncomfortable.

TomWilsonYEG

@Paulatics

One thing the populists get right is communication. I cannot watch CBC without seeing advertisements lobbying for the CPC or the UPC. (Ironic given the proclamation of PP to cancel the CBC). They realize it's not about the medium; it's about the audience. Progressives tend to be judgemental to the point of hurting themselves and restrict their influence.
The government of Canada has to talk to every citizen, even those against this government. And X-Twitter is one means to do this.