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The current Warrant Canary looks like it is a copy of the Phuks canary and has never been updated with the Poal name and it lists a date (Friday, April 27, 2018) from prior to Poal really existing. In my opinion Poal.co does not have a valid warrant canary at this moment.

Considering the situations on those other sites that led us all here, i think updating the canary with a date after the first post on Poal and updating it with the Poal.co name should be a priority.

The current [Warrant Canary](https://poal.co/canary) looks like it is a copy of the Phuks canary and has never been updated with the Poal name and it lists a date (Friday, April 27, 2018) from prior to Poal really existing. In my opinion Poal.co does not have a valid warrant canary at this moment. Considering the situations on those other sites that led us all here, i think updating the canary with a date after the first post on Poal and updating it with the Poal.co name should be a priority.

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From all the discussion I've read about canaries recently, here are a couple of my takeaways:
- In order to be effective, a canary should be updated on a schedule.
- Updates should not be made automatically by a bot; at least a button should have to be pressed by the admin.
- We should probably have some inkling of what the canary laws are in the admin's country. Can they compel speech? Can authorities take over the site and refresh the canary themselves? In other words, some explanation of what the canary does and doesn't guarantee might be helpful -- maybe even put it in the canary.

Naturally, all of those things make it harder. And the canary is just one more thing Poal needs to do in a constantly growing list. But it would be nice.