Posted on 11/09/2017 5:39:26 AM PST by jerod
Porn, spam and hate among the top reasons cited for blocking Facebook and Twitter users
Canadian government departments have quietly blocked nearly 22,000 Facebook and Twitter users, with Global Affairs Canada accounting for nearly 20,000 of the blocked accounts, CBC News has learned.
Moreover, nearly 1,500 posts — a combination of official messages and comments from readers — have been deleted from various government social media accounts since January 2016.
However, there could be even more blocked accounts and deleted posts. In answer to questions tabled by Opposition MPs in the House of Commons, several departments said they don't keep track of how often they block users or delete posts.
It is not known how many of the affected people are Canadian.
It's also not known how many posts were deleted or users were blocked prior to the arrival of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government.
But the numbers shed new light on how Ottawa navigates the world of social media — where it can be difficult to strike a balance between reaching out to Canadians while preventing government accounts from becoming a destination for porn, hate speech and abuse.
The numbers came as Environment Minister Catherine McKenna found herself in a social media firestorm over a tweet from her official departmental account on Tuesday which praised Syria for joining the Paris climate change agreement.
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Environment Minister McKenna is commonly referred to as 'Climate Barbie' on social posting sites.
Unless I read that wrong it looks like the government policing government accounts....something they have every right to do.
Every socialist society is fascistic in its methodologies.
Call me when (and, as sure as I'm sitting here, they will) American liberals start editing and erasing posts from American websites like FR. Bringing in third worlders to steal elections isn't good enough for them. They will have to stop patriots from communicating via the internet to accomplish their nefarious goals.
“Hate Speech” in Canada is anything that worries the government.
I’d like to see Fakebook and Twitter go bankrupt. Social media is a cesspool of perverts, trolls, fake accounts, and malcontents.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
The USMSM takes twittweets and fakebook posts and leads the news with them.
Even if these viral socialist networking sites weren’t not “followed” by the masses, they would be brought into the homes daily unless you pull the plug on MSM.
Malcontents? Maybe you mean deplorables?
IIRC, quoting the Bible in Canada is hate speech.
Trudeau wants to bring in 300,000 more Muslims before the next election
Won’t be able to build a northern wall. How about lasers from the air?
Their flag might look like a maple leaf but it’s actually a swastika.
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