X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it. - ThreadSky

drjennings.bsky.social • 125 days ago

X is a completely lawless platform and nobody in British politics is willing to do anything about it.

Here's another 50 antisemitic replies I've received on X in the last six days - a tiny subset of the hundreds of abusive messages I've received during that time.

X's reporting/moderation system is deliberately useless and breaches UK & EU online safety laws.

Elon Musk's X should face consequences.

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theramblingelf.bsky.social•125 days ago

Is usage continuing to drop? I'm sure it's still got lots but it feels like it's a less important place already, which slightly offsets the madness there

briandunn.bsky.social•125 days ago

Send the Irish.

alistairsmith.bsky.social•125 days ago

Surely there comes a point where people should just leave it.

You wouldn’t go back to the pub where these people hang out, so why stay in their virtual space.

mellowmark.bsky.social•125 days ago

Twitter data is also used as a training database for xAI + Musk has given investors that backed his Twitter acquisition 25 per cent of the shares in xAI

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24339249/elon-musk-xai-x-twitter

grahamszs.bsky.social•125 days ago

Opportunity for His Majesty to set an example.

chuffnuc346.bsky.social•125 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/xitnow.org/post/3le7lgvouwc2l

clownsbootz.bsky.social•125 days ago

Leave, if everyone in the UK left it, who'd care what the arsehole says

ajkitch.bsky.social•125 days ago

I suspect HMG is hanging fire until Trump issues an executive order that actively harms UK interests, but I think the minimum they could do is cease using X for official press releases.

catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social•125 days ago

Same here in the US. X and fb and Misinformation Social are all spewing misinformation like runaway hurricanes. If governments don't rein them in, there will soon be no governments.
Just rich people crushing everything and everyone in their path.

saying-it-101.bsky.social•125 days ago

The truth is, our government has its hands full fighting on all fronts for the British people.

And so it's time for the people to do their bit, hold Musk lies & his lawless X to account.

The cumulative will of the British people is far greater than any rich man.

amhoward.bsky.social•125 days ago

Half the people seem to agree with him, sadly

serendipitysmith.bsky.social•125 days ago

Musk isn't very popular in the UK and I don't think anywhere near half of British people agree with him on anything.

amhoward.bsky.social•125 days ago

I've seen that polling - and that's a positive. But then you look at the combined support for Farage and the Tories (who under Badenoch, you know what you are getting) and that looks worryingly like general support for what he's been tweeting madly about. US is the same - 50% voted for Trump.

serendipitysmith.bsky.social•125 days ago

I console myself that if they were 'combined' some people on either side wouldn't vote for the result.

neilfromneath.bsky.social•125 days ago

#BanTwitter

libertyuk1.bsky.social•122 days ago

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

sutherla.bsky.social•125 days ago

It seems OFCOM has failed and needs replaced

pamnashes.bsky.social•125 days ago

Ofcom doesn’t have powers yet, sadly.
‘The new rules will come into force once the codes and guidance are approved by Parliament.’

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/video-sharing-platforms/

jw-here.bsky.social•125 days ago

X is being used to undermine uk democracy so govt should ban any uk public body from using it. also any organisation, public or private, that receives any uk tax payer funding.

tunggau.bsky.social•125 days ago

Brazil showed the way.

drjennings.bsky.social•125 days ago

Why is there no EHRC investigation? X's moderation policies have consistently and flagrantly refused to take action on racism, antisemitism and other forms of hate.

thealancoleshow.social•125 days ago

Not just hate, X is now without QUESTION the world's largest provider of CSAM. It's everywhere, and entirely unchecked.

For a man that wants to yell about "protecting children" his platform, directly because of HIM, is doing a fuck ton of harm.

drjennings.bsky.social•125 days ago

Government, public organisations, companies, individuals who remain on X drive traffic onto the platform generating advertising income for it, give it legitimacy and expose people to hate and misinformation in their timelines.

drjennings.bsky.social•125 days ago

Sorry, but you can't just sit this one out until somebody else fixes the problem.

tortymurray.bsky.social•125 days ago

Some imagine posting witty take downs of Musk "helps".
Only adds to the total of clicks - & so ad income.

dickiedavies.bsky.social•125 days ago

No one in those organisations seems to be able to read. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/public-sector-equality-duty/what-s-the-public-sector-equality-duty/

blemley.us•125 days ago

They shoul ban it unless Musk sells it

fluidsguru.bsky.social•125 days ago

Elon Musk is a terrorist

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•125 days ago

The government needs to ban X.

sweet-jesus.bsky.social•125 days ago

An aside but I'm surprised the state or X and Facebook generally isn't considered more a problem for free speech advocates. As a jew why should I use a platform where this is considered reasonable discourse?

cabbagepatchcat.bsky.social•125 days ago

Gov & pollies need to take a stand and leave.

btibbels.bsky.social•125 days ago

We could do something ourselves, but until the big accounts boycott the app then there is little chance of change.

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