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Vancouver is in Canada.

Neither the city of Vancouver B.C. nor the country of Canada took down the Vancouver nightclub's Instagram account though.

That was either accidental auto moderation or a testy and likely MAGA aligned person of influence (inside or outside of Meta).

Either way, not a good look for Freedom of Speech.

Freedom of speech only for a small part of only the US then? So not the ideal of freedom of speech, but the dictatorial version of freedom of speech?

Instagram is not.

there is a Vancouver, Washington, down near Portland, Oregon

The much larger Vancouver, and the one that this is about, is in Canada.

There is also Vancouver Island, which is separate from the other two.

All are named after Captain George Vancouver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vancouver

I didn’t realize that someone from Washington State would think of Lake Ontario as theirs?

I am sorry that you had to explain that, and even sorrier that many people failed the third grade. The fault lies not with the teachers, but the parents who do not know who's geologic fact either... it's stunning, but par for the course given the countries leadership.

They had no need to explain what most already knew and which had little bearing on the apparent actions of a US company.

The fault lies not with the geological bedrock underpinning Vancouver B.C. nor with it's geographic location although it is indeed a visually stunning part of the world.

It's also less an issue with the leadership of the two countries involved, more an issue with the fish rotting from head of one country's leadership.

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