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Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-strip-club-instagram-taken-down-sign-calls-out-trump-12725993
56•anigbrowl•1h ago

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msie•1h ago
I thought MAGA supported freedom of speech? Didn’t they have a meeting with Zuckerberg about censorship many years ago? What a joke the US has become.
gfv•46m ago
Vancouver is in Canada.
conception•45m ago
Instagram is not.
anonzzzies•44m ago
Freedom of speech only for a small part of only the US then? So not the ideal of freedom of speech, but the dictatorial version of freedom of speech?
fsckboy•39m ago
there is a Vancouver, Washington, down near Portland, Oregon
zenethian•34m ago
I didn’t realize that someone from Washington State would think of Lake Ontario as theirs?
defrost•26m ago
Neither the city of Vancouver B.C. nor the country of Canada took down the Vancouver nightclub's Instagram account though.

That was either accidental auto moderation or a testy and likely MAGA aligned person of influence (inside or outside of Meta).

Either way, not a good look for Freedom of Speech.

grebc•46m ago
Only if it doesn’t embarrass his orangeness.
roenxi•43m ago
Since when has Facebook been associated with MAGA? They were famously part of the attempt to get Trump banned [0] from social media that led to Truth Social. Their moderation team tends anti-MAGA to the point where it is an international political concern.

And, assuming that the article is accurate, obviously they shouldn't have banned an account for posting "Can't handle a pool, but wants our lake?". I think everyone would agree outside the Facebook team. That would be a classic Facebook over-moderation. Extreme to the point where I'm going to assume there is more to the story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_use_by_Donald_Tru...

schiffern•34m ago

  >Since when has Facebook been associated with MAGA?
That's easy. January 20, 2025: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpqeq82rvo
samudrijan•6m ago
Facebook/Meta happily hires GOP operatives and has done so for years.
freitasm•43m ago
Right. Freedom of expression when MAGA, but not for others.

Who is the snowflake now?

schiffern•30m ago
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the party of "fuck your feelings" and "humor is legal again..."

And please, no fake canned complaints about "politicizing." The story is nakedly political from top to bottom (no pun intended).

avaer•38m ago
Would be useful to know who gave the order (article doesn't say).

It could be an Insta mod messed up, a blame the AI situation, the company self-censoring, or maybe a threatening DM from the government. All of which have precedent.

Hard to have an informed opinion without more details.

kennywinker•12m ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.

Incidents like this are common enough, that this is what the system does. If it’s AI, or rogue mods, or zuck himself, it doesn’t matter because this is what the system is doing - and if this wasn’t an acceptable outcome to meta the system would be changed.

parineum•7m ago
How do you know it isn't being changed?
anonzzzies•35m ago
Hope it gets more countries to do their own thing; it's rather insane companies are dependent on social media for marketing while they control 0% of that social media and can be wiped out by some silly AI (aka cheap; you don't want Astra/Fable scanning all our photos, you use some lobotomised model which barfs out false pos/neg all day long) or Stasi Ministry of Censorship. At least locally I can just get in a car and drive up to hear what's up and I understand the laws and know what my rights are while in the US, I have 0 rights.
Bedlow•19m ago
Another red flag of bigtech domination being terrible for digital democracy. At least Europe has now got this message loud and clear,and some govts/etc are using self hosted Mastodon (and Nextcloud, AI models...). Eurosky might be good but we have to wait and see, though it can also be self hosted through AT protocol. Decentralised, federated social media is now bottom line essential for diverse opinion with different, independently controlled moderation systems.
accountrequired•16m ago
So "it appears" ...

Not enough actual facts in the article to form an opinion or even write the article about.

jdlshore•7m ago
The facts are quite clear:

1. A Canadian business posted an image of a sign criticizing the US administration

2. Soon after, their Instagram account was suspended.

3. This has happened before with their Twitter account, which they were able to get restored after a week.

But you already knew that, and instead are making passive-aggressive insinuations. If you want to make an actual argument, make it.

As for me, that along with the other facts I know about the Trump administration are more than enough to form an opinion: this isn’t evidence of a politically-motivated takedown, but it certainly fits the administration’s character, and I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

hougaard•15m ago
Drove past the club yesterday, the sign is still up with the lake joke.
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Every time these end up on HN, someone says something along the lines of: ”I would not host in a country without 1st amendment rights.”

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