Question: I’m guessing this blocking is all based off of IP address, can anyone confirm?

If so, does a VPN with (say) a US endpoint get around it?

  • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    Canada needs a domestic social media service. That much is clear. The only question is how in the world it will compete.

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      I downloaded a Canadian news app after RIF went down, it has the most vile comment section I have ever seen.

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        1 year ago

        Ask yourself who would comment on a news app instead of Reddit. The answers write themselves.

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            They’re typically less tech savvy, older, and trend Conservative. They’re also the segment of that demographic that wants to write comments (i.e. they have stronger/more extreme beliefs)

            It’s likely to be the more extreme rural Conservatives.

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      It wouldn’t and if by some miracle it started to someone would purchase it.

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        1 year ago

        government funding? Canada has a pretty good track record of separating journalism from the government

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      lmao! Who do you propose to run it? The Liberals? LOL The Conservatives? Even bigger LOL

      The only people we can trust less than industry to handle this is anybody we might elect to government.