The second interview of a CBC piece answered some similar questions I had. This ruling provides precedence and can stop a future invocation of the Emergencies Act in its tracks through an injunction from the Federal Court of Appeal, if it’s granted.
The government is appealing the decision because they believe the invocation was reasonable and justified. The Liberals are currently behind in the polls, so politically it’s within the government’s interest to appeal this. The act itself is decades old and never invoked prior to this so both the civil liberty groups and the government are probably keen on getting clarification on the legal usage of the act from the Supreme Court of Canada.
Personally, I fully support the usage of the act. What I found unreasonable was the lack of accountability with the provincial police.
Here in Canada we got rid of our pennies years ago. For good reason.
Capitalism doesn’t believe in Robin Hood. Robbin’ hoods on the other hand…
I opened the community in the browser, since I use Connect, just in case but I forgot your Lemmy account also has its own block list. And indeed I had it blocked. Hence why I didn’t recall it.
I was like huh, that’s one I haven’t seen before. Visit the community and it’s empty.
Looks like community promo needs a community promo on community promo cause community promo has no communities promoed.
And how do you know the mysterious illness is simply not giving staves sentience?
In Connect’s Settings, tap on “Block settings” and under your blocked instances list, there’s a toggle to turn off “Block instances includes comments.”
Username checks ou… username does not check out. On a more serious note, Connect for Lemmy has the option to block instances at an account level.
It’s an app-specific feature so using another app or viewing through your browser would not have the feature. Hopefully it’s baked into Lemmy/Kbin itself in the near future so users can manage it across access points, like blocking of users or communities.
I think I saw someone else mentioned that bug as well. I think your subscription list in the main menu doesn’t automatically refresh after you subscribe to a new community so currently you would have to close and reopen the app. Updates and bug fixes have been daily lately so hopefully that gets fixed soon.
Right, there are limitations to app based user blocking of instances. Lemmy/Kbin proper would need to implement a robust user account privacy framework to provide the granular control you’re interested in. Personally, I’d like to see this as well.
If you use Lemmy Connect, they added the option to block instances like yesterday.
Currently you can with with Lemmy Connect. Maybe with others as well, given the amount of apps coming out by the day. And I’m guessing they’ll fold the feature into Lemmy/Kbin proper sometime in the future.
The “Reverse Comment Interactions” option in Settings makes it a single tap instead. I’m used to that so it’s nice the app has various customization options to cater to different users.
What stood out for me: Mike Hunt was so focused on how fast people got sucked dry. 😂
I don’t think the feature is currently available in Jerboa and you’ll need to access the Settings of your account on the instance you signed up on. There’s a “Block” tab in there to manage your blocked communities and users.
That was one of many factors that I think the invocation was necessary. Th residents, as well as affected businesses, in Ottawa were left to fend for themselves as leadership(including the police) could not end the occupation of the downtown core. There were multiple blockades of varying degrees that were also problematic. What came out of the Coutts blockade was worrisome to say the least. The one at the Ambassador Bridge was cleared but who knew if people would come back or setup elsewhere. No one knew how things would play out at the time but there was a lot of concern across Canada. Even by the judge’s admission, he may have advised the same conclusion the government decided on.
At the end of the day I agree with the public inquiry that didn’t find it unreasonable and perhaps revisions to the Emergencies Act is something to consider.