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I assumed from the title that the American feds wanted to ban the Flipper Zero. Canada is a small country, and "Feds" in English almost always refers to the national government of the United States.

The previous discussion title used "Canadian government" to refer to these particular Feds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308731

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The United States is not the entirety of the world. There are many other countries that are federations, and some of them have English as one of their national languages. I can assure you that in those countries, colloquial use of "feds" does not refer to the American federal government.

The United States is the majority of the English-speaking world with a federal government.

Even if that were true, that doesn't mean that it gets to be the default in any context.

But you're wrong, because the largest English-speaking country with a federal government is actually India.

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