Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.
I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.
Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.
#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs.
Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too.
Luckily, I have a guide for that.
disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…
#tech #cdnpoli #cdntech #politics #digitalsovereignty #tariffs
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.Paris Marx (Disconnect)
Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.
The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.
ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4…
#tech #canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #elonmusk #misinformation #cdnelxn #cdnelection
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark CarneyJoel Suss (Financial Times)
Stunning - CTV cancels Rachel Gilmore's election fact checking segment after a CPC staffer pulls a hissy fit on Twitter
Absolute cowards
#CDNpoli #ONpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli
pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelled…
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservativesPressProgress
"We don't have to stop at exporting reasonably priced pharmaceuticals to Americans! We could export the extremely lucrative tools of technological liberation to our American friends, too.
"That's how you win a trade-war."
"But we can sign up new customers, by selling jailbreaking software and access to Canadian app stores, for every mobile device and games console to everyone in the world, and by pitching every games publisher and app maker on selling in the Canadian app store to customers anywhere without paying a 30% vig to American big tech companies."
"Let Canadians stand up a Canadian app store for Apple devices, one that charges 3% to process transactions, not 30%. Then, every Canadian news outlet that sells subscriptions through an app, and every Canadian software author, musician and writer who sells through a mobile platform gets a 25% increase in revenues overnight, without signing up a single new customer."
"Abolish the Canadian laws that protect US Big Tech companies from Canadian competition. Make it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak and modify American technology products and services. Don't ask Facebook to pay a link tax to Canadian newspapers, make it legal to jailbreak all of Meta's apps and block all the ads in them, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make a dime off of us."
I'm still waiting to see a movement to make it legal to jailbreak US tech in response to US tariffs, as @pluralistic has been recommending.
Are there signs our gov is listening?
Ursula Franklin Lecture:
With Great Power Came No Responsibility, 2025-Feb-24
pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
vimeo.com/1059798497
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.Vimeo
WHITE SUPREMACISTS FEAR GENDER NON-CONFORMITY
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The idea underlying white male supremacy is at least 6000 years old
Class hierarchy - which arose with the city state - came out of earlier patriarchal notions of women's "natural" inferiority
The ancients held gender nonconformity to be "womanly", hence "weak"
This "womanly, hence weak" label became attached to other out-groups as politically required
origins of misogyny
independentaustralia.net/polit…
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#USPol #UKPol #CdnPoli #AusPol
The key to ending the misogynistic attitudes of our governing politicians may be in examining the history of the Western patriarchy.Independent Australia
