Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada

Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

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The Brazilian government filed an out-of-court notice for Meta to explain the possible effects of changes in Facebook and Instagram guidelines.
Government lawyers gave a 72-hour deadline for an explanation of the alterations in fact checking and fake news that may affect children, adolescents and women, for example.
In addition, a government working group was created with consultation to the rest of the Powers and civil society to follow up on the measures to protect freedom of expression, without tolerating the violation of fundamental rights.
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  I've heard news that the laws are changing in Brazil. Lula da Silva wanted congress to vote in favor of a social media system, like the one in China and some US states, where you would have to provide your ID to create an account, so if you posted Nazism or Racism, the company could easily inform the police/courts who did that. The congress, mostly right-wing and far-right, refused to vote, and Google, Facebook and X even held meetings with these politicians and there was a huge ad paid for by Google, every time you searched for something, an ad on Google Brazil would appear saying something like: “Congress is voting to destroy freedom of expression”.
  The Supreme Court has had enough of this, and now the Supreme Court justices are voting to hold companies responsible for everything a user posts on social media. And there's nothing these companies can do about it, because the only people who can interfere with the Supreme Court are the President of the Republic and the President of the Senate, who don't care about these companies.

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