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Re:Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter by FloorEgg on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:56PM (#43122214)
It doesn't seem logical to me either.

Ideological, political, emotional, group-think, etc.

I've spotted plenty of misinformation published by/on every platform I've spent time with, including Reuters.

I can see logic in a petition to get the government to use a more open/decentralized platform that is more accessible and not controlled by a potential adversary, but this doesn't seem like it's about expanding access to the CA governments information, it seems like it's about controlling narrative and not having the government associated with a narrative these people don't like.

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Re:Petition to Remove the Canadian Government from Twitter by FloorEgg on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:08PM (#43122336)
Actually on second glance I think it's about both.

I'm all for the government using more decentralized networks and platforms, I don't frankly care whether they post or not to X, and I get the sense that anyone who does isn't doing so based on logic but on ideological and narrative control.

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