More Cyber Censorship: Pro-Freedom Newspaper Druthers Kicked Off Facebook & Instagram

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  Well friends, it happened…  As of September 23rd, we lost connection with 187,000 of you on Facebook and 27,000 more of you on Instagram. This is where the majority of our online reach came from, so this is a pretty big deal to Druthers. This is also a really big deal for all Canadians, yet many don’t seem to see or care that this is a very serious issue. But they cannot censor print This goes to show the importance of Druthers as a print media option here in Canada. With online censorship seeping in thicker and thicker, now is the time to really double down and boost Druthers to get important news & information into the hands of more people. It’s an information war… and we need more help from more people. Please donate today: Help us print more papers!! Etransfer is easiest and carries no fees: admin@druthers.net Credit cards & paypal can be used at our official fundraising page:
www.donorbox.org/druthers  Or send cash, gift cards or checks made out to:
Shawn Jason Laplante
P.O. Box 40531
Six Points Plaza
Toronto, Ontario
M9B 6K8

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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Earlier this year, Bill C-18 passed, which basically means the government told online tech companies that if Canadians are going to share Canadian news links on their social platforms, that the platforms had to start paying the news agencies. Big tech said no way, and now all Canadian news is blocked on Facebook & Instagram, including everything we have ever posted on the Druthers social pages. Go see for yourself: www.facebook.com/druthers.net 
Or: www.instagram.com/druthersnews  You will find the accounts are still there but no content can be seen, but only if you are in Canada. People in other countries can still see our content, though we the admins of those social pages cannot see our own content nor post anything new. The pages are essentially useless now. We cannot keep you informed of what’s going on through those platforms now.

WHO IS IN THE WRONG? Facebook says the government is in the wrong for demanding money be paid to their dying legacy media outlets, and the government says Facebook is wrong for blocking Canadian news content. I say, this is all wrong!! I also say, it’s all by design. With legacy media fading away into oblivion, brought about by their own greed, lies & lack of integrity for the people, this is a superb way to temporarily push Canadians back to buying their mainstream newspapers, watching / listening to their news stations, hence increasing advertising revenues and making the corporate media more money. But also, and more importantly, it gives them better control over the narrative on whatever the political hot topic of the week is. State sponsored propaganda is about all we receive in Canada these days through the big media giants. If no news can be found online, where will people get their news fix? Yep, legacy media, which we all know by now is not honest and does not care for the best interests of the people. And now there will be no dissenting voices or room for debate. Whatever the government suits and unelected regulatory bodies determine to be true will be served up as such, even when it is clearly not actually true.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DRUTHERS It is now even more important than ever to support Druthers and help this newspaper grow in reach & impact. 250,000 newspapers per month is our usual which is fabulous, but with 15 million dwellings in this country and a population of 40 MILLION people, we can do so much more, and they can’t censor print! This project is entirely people powered. We receive no government funding and have no corporate sponsors. This truly is the people’s paper and we really do need your ongoing support in order to keep printing. Did you know? We have printed nearly 9 million papers so far and given them to people coast to coast across Canada and into numerous other countries too. Let’s keep it going!!