Of course there have been ample warnings, including the handing out of leaflets detailing the unlawful offenses. Many people were ticketed and arrested at border crossing protests, including 11 members of a splinter group, in posession of 13 long guns, ammunition, body armor and hand guns.
The Ambassodor Bridge, accounting for ~30% of the cross-border land trade has since been cleared. The damage is estimated at above $500M. Damages at border crossings in Alberta and Manitoba have been estimated at 48 and $73M respectively.
> and absolutely worthy of debate
No, it's worthy of ridicule, which is the right move here.
It's only a matter of time
why should private citizens have to lick the boots of government officials when they make stupid demands? They deserve mockery and being able to mock authority without fear of reprisal is the foundation of democracy
>I’m not an Edge customer but if I was I wouldn’t be anymore
you aren't their target market
While they may truly believe the law is amoral and are in part happy to make that statement, this is primarily a marketing stunt for the pro-privacy and unseizable aspects of self-custodied crypto wallets.
Thumbing your nose to the legacy governments and establishment is de rigueur.
I'm assuming it's a case of "if enough users flag a topic", but is there a moderator involved at all?
Can a topic get 'unflagged' once flagged?
Could this system be abused by planted shills who coordinate 'flagging' when something is posted that is detrimental to a company?
I read the post, I see people's point here that responding with a meme is perhaps not appropriate for some audiences on a serious matter, but I personally didn't find it in bad taste, and would never consider this as grounds for 'flagging'.
Especially since 'flagging' in this particular case effectively means "censorship" / "shadowbanning" (in that it causes the topic to be removed from the list of topics, but does not kill the link itself).
Reminds me of that quote: "The best way to keep people obedient is to severely limit the scope of conversation, but allow very vivid conversation within that scope"
Seems like the few people who spotted this topic before it was removed from the list are allowed to discuss this topic as passionately as they like, while the moderator sleeps quietly at night knowing nobody will ever discover this passionate conversation.
What a weird world we live in.
> How are stories ranked?
> The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.
> Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action."
and
> What does [flagged] mean?
> Users flagged the post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on HN.
> Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.
You might also find the guidelines helpful in answering your questions.
So effectively a single normal user can flag a submission. Interesting.
Well, now protestors are being arrested and their accounts being frozen. They're no longer being treated nicely compared to environmental protestors.
While I don't agree with their stance, I do think that "we should not have a vaccine mandate" is a valid political opinion, and I support people being able to protest in support of their opinion.
Yes, it's legal to freeze the funds. The list of net-negative-for-society things perpetrated that have been legal in the jurisdictions in which they occurred is long.
I would rather these protestors, environmental/pipeline protestors, and generally all other protestors be treated gently rather than quashing protest.
Canada's laws protecting protestors are much more limited than those in the USA. If the Canadians have decided that this is how they would like their country to operate, that is their right, but I would hope that this sort of thing never happens in the US regardless of the cause.
Environmental protesters are FREQUENTLY arrested, so if you’re upset about these arrests at least have the decency to also be upset about these ones last year:
My point being that I am upset about the arrest of protestors in general; those, these, and others, and think that the arrest of people who are not hurting people should be celebrated approximately never.
Freezing assets without due process is a new thing which should be resisted as it's tyrannical and unchecked. Not good.
This was never about vaccine mandates.
But responding with a meme? An institution that presumably holds my money? Oof.
I'll be the first to admit I think this protest is about a bunch of idiots with a victim complex. They should just get the vaccine like 90% of the rest of their profession have done. It's safe and is what anyone should do to help their fellow humans.
The Emergencies Act is law. If Edge wants to do business in Canada they have to follow it. I don't see this ending well for them.
Maybe I'm an old curmudgeon, but I also don't want to see ANY financial company using memes in an official press release.
They should just cut off their mobile data. Going without Joe Rogan podcasts and Jordan Peterson tweets will eventually hit hard.
Predictable one though.
(If only these people would actually use the decentralized tools they can't stop talking about, they wouldn't need some exchange posting memes to reassure them)
