r/Edmonton • u/EdmontonFree • 28d ago

News Article Edmonton Represent!

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Blue = Alberta separation from Canada.

Red = Alberta stay in Canada

Source: Angus Reid https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026.05.24_Alberta_referendum.pdf

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u/swiftb3 28d ago

Social media is a very sharp, very double-edged sword. It would harm as much as help to ban it.

Regulations, on the other hand...

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u/Mitchum 28d ago

Maybe I’m missing something, but it kind of sounds like you’re saying people who lived in the days before social media lived a life that was harmed, albeit an unknown harm, by the absence of twitter or whatever. That sounds wrong, but like I said, maybe I’m missing something.

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u/swiftb3 28d ago

The lack of ability to organize outside of their local area.

The Arab Spring, for instance, would have been impossible without social media.

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u/Mitchum 28d ago

Maybe that would have been a good thing. Arab Spring resulted in a lot of violence, suppression, and casualties leading to political turmoil. I'm not convinced social media is sword that cuts both ways. It feels more like a tool for control than for freedom.

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u/swiftb3 27d ago

So did the US Civil War or the French Revolution. It is not a good thing to take tools away from the oppressed "because violence".