Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke

msie

I thought MAGA supported freedom of speech? Didn’t they have a meeting with Zuckerberg about censorship many years ago? What a joke the US has become.

freitasm

Right. Freedom of expression when MAGA, but not for others. Who is the snowflake now?

avaer

Would be useful to know who gave the order (article doesn't say). It could be an Insta mod messed up, a blame the AI situation, the company self-censoring, or maybe a threatening DM from the government. All of which have precedent. Hard to have an informed opinion without more details.

anonzzzies

Hope it gets more countries to do their own thing; it's rather insane companies are dependent on social media for marketing while they control 0% of that social media and can be wiped out by some silly AI (aka cheap; you don't want Astra/Fable scanning all our photos, you use some lobotomised model which barfs out false pos/neg all day long) or Stasi Ministry of Censorship. At least locally I can just get in a car and drive up to hear what's up and I understand the laws and know what my rights are while in the US, I have 0 rights.

Bedlow

Another red flag of bigtech domination being terrible for digital democracy. At least Europe has now got this message loud and clear,and some govts/etc are using self hosted Mastodon (and Nextcloud, AI models...). Eurosky might be good but we have to wait and see, though it can also be self hosted through AT protocol. Decentralised, federated social media is now bottom line essential for diverse opinion with different, independently controlled moderation systems.

accountrequired

So "it appears" ... Not enough actual facts in the article to form an opinion or even write the article about.

hougaard

Drove past the club yesterday, the sign is still up with the lake joke.

niemandhier

That is why less capable clones of US services get so much attention at the moment. Every time these end up on HN, someone says something along the lines of: ”I would not host in a country without 1st amendment rights.”

wood_spirit

Are the tech companies actively censoring or subtly deranking pro-Canada sentiment on their platforms? Or is this some activist doing takedowns?

mukmuk

Can one of the undoubtedly many meta employees reading this comment section speculate on why this happened?