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Axol Otleon Feb 10

Irish Examiner: Government bodies need to get off X, now

"Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed"

"... most Government departments continue to use X for their outbound comms with the Irish people, with several, including the HSE, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Transport (via TFI and the TII) providing essential real-time updates via this now-niche third party platform — some exclusively so."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html

#Ireland #IE #Mastodaoine #X #SocialMedia

Government bodies need to get off X, now

Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic

Irish Examiner

Leave X - Protect Democracy Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay we second that:

https://leavex.eu

cc @ElaineActivism

Leave X - Protect Democracy

Leave X - Protect Democracy

Ciara 💖Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay I can’t believe it’s taken this long for anyone in the media to start calling for this 🤬

Leave X - Protect Democracy Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay @ciara unbelievable, isn't it?

everton137 Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay @ciara @leavex I made a cartoon explaining that

https://gram.social/p/leavex/924009082908185334

Leave X (@[email protected])

#LeaveX #Journalism #Politics #Democracy #Stalemate #X

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everton137 Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay @ciara @leavex this one also after asking in person a MEP why her colleagues don't leave X

https://gram.social/p/leavex/924068826071329810

Leave X (@[email protected])

#LeaveX #DSA #Democracy #Musk #HateSpeech #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereignty #diday #SocialMedia

Pixelfed

@ciara
Finally. Quite a good piece too I thought.

Elaine Baker Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay @ciara totally agree - Please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons

Take X icons off websites and emails ! And replace with Mastodon icons !

Why leave and de-platform toxic and lock-in social media (such as X, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok) ? Black Box Algorithms: Lock-in platforms aim to show you more content that their owners like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and their paymasters want you to see, and less content that you want to see…. https://xodus.online/why#algorithms Rise of the far-right: Toxic platforms promote hate, the far-right, and interfere in elections…. https://xodus.online/why#democracy Disinformation: Toxic platforms...

MyUplift

Elaine Baker Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay Thanks for the link, please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons

Take X icons off websites and emails ! And replace with Mastodon icons !

Why leave and de-platform toxic and lock-in social media (such as X, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok) ? Black Box Algorithms: Lock-in platforms aim to show you more content that their owners like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and their paymasters want you to see, and less content that you want to see…. https://xodus.online/why#algorithms Rise of the far-right: Toxic platforms promote hate, the far-right, and interfere in elections…. https://xodus.online/why#democracy Disinformation: Toxic platforms...

MyUplift

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay
C'mon Ireland.
Do the right thing.
Leave the Nazi platform.

@Natasha_Jay It's just too easy now to do this right.

Every government needs their own Fediverse instance. They get authoritative control of their platform and identity while the public gets free, non-commercial access to the agencies governing their lives.

Bill Halcyon Feb 10

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Feb 10

I said back when Twitter was new:

Government communications should never be first on a third-party platform. They should build an open system for notifications, either RSS or something that allows explicit push. If people like Twitter, Facebook, or whatever the kids are using now want to build a bridge from that so that their users can consume things, that's fine. But it shouldn't be public money building that bridge. It's a thing that adds value to that commercial service and so should be paid for by the people who want it.

I said the same thing about BBC iPlayer when it launched, but they still maintain proprietary client apps for a variety of proprietary platforms and use license-fee money to promote lock-in to platforms owned and controlled by foreign corporations.

@Natasha_Jay government bodies could host their own Mastodon instances. Then they'd have complete control over content. Not have to worry about an algorithm black-hole'ing their messages. And not be associated with a platform that is politically tainted.

Joe Gaffey Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay It's past time for @social.gov.ie or better still @sóisialta.rialtas.ie.

Taran Rampersad Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay my word. At this rate they might be off X in the next decade.

@Natasha_Jay - How true

Neil Moffatt Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay Basically we have what were social media platforms now commandeered as people control and indoctrination mechanisms.

Antisocial systems now.

Pino Carafa Feb 10

@Natasha_Jay I've been sending them emails to ask them to become part of the #Xodus and to #LoseTheXLink - have had one ot two positive responses but the inertia is still very very strong.