Should the Government of Canada continue to use the bird site to share important official information?
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Eileen Kinley last edited by
@EileenOttawa We live in hope - and I will keep pressing the point!
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Jean-Francois Mezeireplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics La Presse has an article asking if Government should continue on X. Doesn't mention you , mentions "experts".
Vie numérique | Les politiciens canadiens invités à quitter X
« Les politiciens devraient définitivement lâcher X. » Le message lancé à la mi-octobre par messagerie sécurisée par l’expert en cybersécurité Luc Lefebvre ne peut être plus limpide. Et ça, c’était avant l’élection de Donald Trump et son rapprochement avec Elon Musk, PDG de X, qui posent des risques géopolitiques additionnels pour la classe politique canadienne.
La Presse (www.lapresse.ca)
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Andrew Hunterreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics e-4769 was presented to the House and the governments response drips with indifference to the concept of communications sovereignty.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769
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@Paulatics I know you couldn't state it this way, but I wish I could
"Many people call X the Nazi Bar, and by staying on X, that means users of X are endorsing Nazis, or fascism in general. Does the government of Canada understand that it is viewed as a willful enabler of the Nazi Bar? That it is endorsing fascism?"
But Kudos for your question and the follow-up.
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William B Peckhamreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics I think it's remarkably telling that you provide a YouTube link instead of a peer tube link.
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@Paulatics Thanks for asking the question. Its a start.
IMO under no circumstances should any public agency be using a platform that requires a subscription for official communication. Especially not one that is algorithmically manipulated.
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Geoff Wozniakreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics I really appreciate you raising these points.
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to William B Peckham last edited by
@wbpeckham Ok, I’ll bite. What is peer tube?
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Gordon J Holtslanderreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@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
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Geoff Wozniak last edited by
@GeoffWozniak Thank you. We all got ourselves in trouble by naively treating Twitter and Facebook like public utilities. A big mistake.
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@sleepy62 Agreed.
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
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Action Jay 🐾 :CApride:replied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@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
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Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️replied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@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... -
@Paulatics thank you for raising this issue Senator.
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@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.
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@dcdeejay I fear that is all too true.
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Hamish Buchananreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
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?
