Twitter / 'X'

[Earl Aelfheah]

Elon Musk's 'X', rapidly spreads misinformation, hate speech, harassment and enables the creation and distribution of deepfakes. It is in my opinion, having a malign influence on society. Recently it has been reported that 'Grok' (it's AI function) allows people to create sexualised images of children. It is disgraceful that the UK government isn't taking any action to regulate the platform, in the absence of their putting reasonable controls in place themselves. At the very, very least, the UK government and our MPs should not be actively supporting 'X' by using it themselves. If you agree, I would encourage you to write to Ellie Reeves demanding some action (she posts regularly on the platform).

Her email address is [email protected]

Edited January 8 by Earl Aelfheah

[Sephiroth]

or ANY governments really - not just a UK problem

But it's all tied in with this endless entanglement with American products and services and the Trump administration where everyone knows that as soon as you do take action (even pulling away in a vehicle) sees way out of proportion response

On a personal level I left twitter over a year ago - it was already filling u p with bots and Musk's own algorithms and felt increasingly like a nazi bar - so I left. But way too many people think it's just like it was with a few more ads and where everyone else is so.... their own worldview gets warped as well. So it's not JUST a government problem

[Earl Aelfheah]

Even if they’re not going to regulate, they could at least stop actively supporting it. Why are our MPs using a platform that is filled with hate speech, harassment and which enables the generation of sexual images of children? It’s unacceptable imo.

[Sephiroth]

I agree - but it's where everyone else in their circle is. All the other MPS, journos etc - they all still exist on there (some finger-wagging at "liberals" to come back as the space isn't the same without them) so I guess the fear is if they don't all jump at the same time there will be... I dunno. What would actually be so bad?

 

But paralysis/habit seems to be main obstacle. Plus an inability to acknowledge when something/anything changes so fundamentally it's no longer what it was. 

[Earl Aelfheah]

If the government said all departments and Labour MPs must stop using the platform - and perhaps suggested moving over to an alternative such as Bluesky and called on the BBC and other media organisations to do the same, they could. I think they should.

[Sephiroth]

I think they should as well - but in my view they don't recognise the problem. And if you can't recognise a problem you can't deal with it

And this is where I crowbar my reference to Bre (NO YOU DON'T. Editor)