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A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.

Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.

Rules:

1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services

2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

3. AI Content Policy

Not allowed: AI-generated images or articles

Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries

4. Only content in French and English is permitted

5. Declare all self-promotion

Users are encouraged to report any content that violates our community guidelines

Règlements :

1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens

2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.

3. Politique sur le contenu IA

Non permis : Images ou articles générés par l'IA

Toléré : Résumés IA de publications

4. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré

5. Déclarez toute auto-promotion

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Meta is one of the highest performing American stocks and 98% of their revenue is advertising. Make it harder and strike a blow for Canada!

The guide is easy enough that parents, grandparents and other non tech types should be fine with it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

…why not?

Anecdotally, some orgs refuse to use other platforms and gate their content behind a facebook group. It's maddening to say the least, but a fake account can come in handy sometimes (behind an iron shield of ad and tracker blockers!).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You should really talk to them about moving away from the book of faces, tell them all they do is sell your data without getting any of the benefits. The book of Faces and the Zak used that data to pay for Trumps election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

who? can you please list specific organizations that do this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

No, because i'm not going to share names of orgs that collectively could dox me.

But we're talking about a huge range of small businesses, municipalities, local groups (i.e. bike clubs), and advocacy events.

My regional police department issues important information about road closures, missing persons, etc. through twitter, as an example.

Another example of one that I've seen happening too often are health-related support groups are very often in "private" facebook groups, which are often joined by people who use their real name/real accounts. This opens them up to family members or employers finding out about health-related issues they did not want to disclose, or worse, insurance companies who purchase the data from these data scraping websites.

Even local businesses will post discount codes and coupons on these platforms, rather than through their website or newsletter.

There are hundreds of examples of people being "locked out" of information unless they join these horrible platforms, and that's not cool.