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The only alternatives mentioned were Threads and Bluesky.
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Be careful. He might sue saying you have to use the platform. He’ll claim that not using it hurts his free speech.
Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.
Can you explain this point?
There was/is a wave of far-right riots happening in the UK, which involved a lot lotting and attacks on Muslims. This was triggered by a stabbing in Southport and a lie that spread on social media claiming that the perpetrator was a Muslim migrant that came to the UK on a ‘small boat’ crossing the channel (he was actually born and grew up in Cardiff). Musk may be liable because during the riots he made several posts undermining the government’s attempts to quell the unrest and his general failure to tackle disinformation spreading on Twitter, such as the Muslim migrant lie.
Fair point. I thought you were implying the opposite.
I read it as implying Labour is anti-free speech for clamping down on racist hate speech and mob mentality.
Arresting people for things they say even when they aren’t threats is anti-free speech and the UK and many European countries do not allow free speech. You can be arrested for even saying Israelis genociding Palestinians are Nazis.
No you cannot. Assuming you’re not from the UK.
Stirring up racial hatred and geeing people up to burn down hotels holding refugees is not free speech.
I specifically said things that aren’t threats. Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean that it isn’t free speech.
People in the UK need to start pushing Mastodon hard. You could use the tagline “You don’t want to switch services again in a few years, do you?”
Politicians and public should consider quitting X, says Liverpool mayor
“The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform”
Only now? It’s been two years of this and now they’ve had too much? No partial credit should be given for people that continued to participate when it was clear what was happening.
Also, I don’t believe a significant number of them actually will.
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Uh, sure. Now is good. Several years ago was better, but, yeah.
The second best time is now.
I hope the canadian mps and mlas follow suit.
Same. I wish other public figures and journalists would as well.
Have barely touched Twitter since Muskification ruined it.
Threads is okay but Mastodon would be brill with more interaction.
Is it finally time? The beginning of the end?
They could start their own fediverse instance and ruthless ban users who have ever agreed with Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
Why does this happen? Lemmy doesn’t get mentioned in articles, but Lemmy is still fairly small. Last I checked, Mastodon is doing well against the competitors. BBC even has an experimental instance
https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Depends on the writer, chances are that those in the bbc who are involved with the mastodon instance are the nerds (like us) and the writer of this article doesn’t know as much and is just listing the places the MPs went, and they are politicians so they wouldn’t know about the “nerdy options”
If they actually worried about hate and disinformation they would have quit before it was called X.
It’s rare to see such a big fuck up as with twitter…
Uh oh, some MPs are about to get sued.
Why does no one mention Mastodon AS an alternative(from the MPs)
Labour MP’s need to put their grown up pants on and work for the people instead of being emotional about a platform.
