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Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Labour MPs have begun quitting X in alarm over the platform, with one saying Elon Musk had turned it into “a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups”.

Over the weekend, newly elected MPs took to WhatsApp groups to raise growing concerns about the role X played in the spread of misinformation amid the far-right-led riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland.

Two Labour MPs are known to have told colleagues they were leaving the platform. One of them, Noah Law, has disabled his account. Other MPs who still use X have begun examining alternatives, including Threads, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and the open-source platform Bluesky.

In an article for the Guardian on Monday, a former Twitter executive, Bruce Daisley, said Musk should face personal sanctions and even an arrest warrant if he continues to stir up public disorder online.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then make a package where it's easy for them to roll out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If a couple of furries can figure it out, I'm pretty sure a major Western government can do the same.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Well since they're not doing it and your aggressive othering isn't helping, how about just make it easy for people to join in on new, good things instead of setting an arbitrary bar originally achieved by zoophiles as the base level for user adoption?

I mean, if your intent is to get more people to adopt mastodon, then how about you remove all of the barriers for them to do so?

THIS is why linux will never go anywhere, the entire fuckdamn community is so high from sniffing their own farts that they have no idea how impenetrable linux is for the average person. There's an xkcd comic that illustrates it but I don't care enough about you to link it. You know the one I'm talking about, the punchline being 'and quartz, of course'.

I see so fuckdamn many of you whining about M$'s market dominance but almost never do I see any initiative to make adoption as easy as possible for your average user.

Instead I see a shitton of people like you that insist that the privilege of using such vaunted software is earned by passing a gauntlet of arbitrary and constantly changing technical challenges, and anyone who seeks to bypass that challenge not being worthy of using the software.

Gatekeeping is ReeeeEEEEeallll sexy in 2024 my guy.