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Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down after sign calls out Trump's lake fiasco (www.vancouverisawesome.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70229482

Instagram takes down a Vancouver strip club's account due to a sign saying:

CANT HANDLE A POOL BUT WANTS OUR LAKE?

Previously they were suspended from X/twitter for a sign saying:

FOREVER NEIGHBOURS NEVER NEIGHBORS

Some large Social Media companies are quick to censor benign funny messages.

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[–] 49 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wish this was big enough news for people to stop using US software. Probably won't be tho..

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    It happens slowly at first and then all at once. I know it’s hard to believe, but things do change. It just takes some time for the smell of America shitting itself harder than its Dear Leader to propagate and turn everyone’s stomach. But give it time, we’ve never shit ourselves this hard before, I think this might be the death shit.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

    Stop pushing for boycotts like they’ll fucking achieve anything. PUNISH THE RICH

    Edit: Stopping your government from buying Windows is a good move. Not personally paying for an Office 365 license is an impotent move. It sends about the same message as pissing into the wind.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Isn't boycotting punishing the rich?

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Boycotting worked a whole lot better when markets weren’t global. It’s also just not going to affect the rich in any material way. Their servants will bear the burden of lower sales and be forced to push harder in other markets.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    I disagree, let's say Netflix looses 50% Canadian Market or McDonals looses half the customers as a direct result of boycotting. They won't want to affect policy change, it won't affect their bottom lines? What If people from other countries follow the example? That would also spur now investment into domestic market to spur new companies to replace those services . Loblaws and the likes started shutting their pants when Loblaws out of control Sub made news.

    I'd rather do something than just talk on an online forum.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    A boycott of 50% is as unlikely as 100%. People eating regularly at McDonald’s aren’t in a position to just stop eating at McDonald’s all the time. Boycotts sound nice. I get it. They just don’t work.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Well unlikely and do not work are two ifferent things. They will work if an effort is made.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 minutes ago*

    Well sure. But if you’ve somehow managed to get enough people to put in the same effort and make the same sacrifices together, then maybe you should do more with that insane achievement than just not buy things together. Like, if everyone made an effort and just fucking VOTED on the one day every four years (or two) when it mattered most, you’d also solve a lot of problems. That’s proven impossible for literally decades. But we’re gonna stick it to ‘em by just making our own lives even shittier, en masse, on the off chance some billionaire might be given a memo about a sales dip?

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