"It’s not a good place under this administration, at least," said Rogan on his podcast, in conversation with his guest, comedian Sam Morril.

“I can’t be a racist sack of shit and spew hate speech in Canada so I’m not coming!” - a fetid sack of gangrenous anal sphincters.

  • Policeshootout
    141·
    5 months ago

    What exactly is he talking about? Which law prohibits the specific ‘free speech’ he is referring to?

    • MapleEngineerOPEnglish
      231·
      5 months ago

      “Free speech” is a right wing dog whistle for hate speech.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      5 months ago

      “They can come down on you for a lot of things. They seized up the bank accounts for people who were protesting, the truckers. People who were donating to the truckers, they seized their bank accounts,” Rogan said.

      I don’t know what “a lot of things” is gesturing at, maybe he doesn’t either. Use of payments censorship to shut down protests without legal proceedings is legitimately worrying, though this is something right wing commentators tend to fixate on to the exclusion of the same stuff when used against people who aren’t their audience. Here’s an article that I think has a good perspective on this.

      All these cases happen somewhere distant to a person in the US or Canada, so could it be that the Truckers struck a nerve because this was the first time that citizens of a democratic Western nation were subject to payments oppression? The answer is no. Cashless payments censorship has a long and established tradition in Western countries. It’s just that it’s not recognized because it’s been focussed on marginalized groups such as welfare recipients.

      • psvrh
        5·
        5 months ago

        “They can come down on you for a lot of things. They seized up the bank accounts for people who were protesting, the truckers. People who were donating to the truckers, they seized their bank accounts,” Rogan said.

        One, this is normal. Large amounts of money moving in sketchy ways always gets FINTRAC’s attention. The only reason this is getting traction is because white people got caught up in it–instead of Muslims or Tamils or suchlike–and white people finding out that laws apply to them is always funny to watch.

        Second, wait until he finds out what Homeland Security can do. FINTRAC is actually pretty lightweight compared it’s American equivalents.