Proposed new rules for c/Canada during the election season, looking for feedback - eviltoast

Elections Canada has released this resource with some common bits of false or misleading content about elections on social media: https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=dis&document=index&lang=e

We plan on pinning this resource, and we are proposing the following rules:

  • Posts or comments with inaccurate or misleading information from this list will be removed, and users are encouraged to report them
  • Repeatedly posting such content will result in a ban from the community until April 28 (at a minimum)

So far we haven’t noticed any serious issues, but we want to get ahead of anything that might come up

  • Value Subtracted@startrek.website
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    5 days ago

    That seems like a little much - there’s plenty of foreign media that produces worthwhile content.

    Blacklisting certain outlets, on the other hand…

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      That may be a more reasonable and targeted approach. I am mainly suggesting this from a place of concern about US interference in our upcoming election.

      It may be easier to have a specific list of banned outlets.

    • Paragone@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      Please, please, please, flag all foreign-owned media, especially foreign-owned “Canadian” media, which is part of the strategic-machine they’re running…

      ( no, I don’t mean as national-operations, I mean as operations intended to highjack the whole damn world, for sake of oligarchy’s dictatorship, which now I know to be an actual strategic-operation, … and I didn’t need any more depression-inducing “medication”, just now, thanks, world. Bah. Humbug, too. )