Davey is wrong on this. X is not a fair playing field, its owner boosts hateful content and the platform wilfully refuses to take action on. Staying simply lends it legitimacy and drives traffic to it... - ThreadSky

drjennings.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Davey is wrong on this. X is not a fair playing field, its owner boosts hateful content and the platform wilfully refuses to take action on. Staying simply lends it legitimacy and drives traffic to it...

Reposted from PoliticsHome

Ed Davey is wary of leaving Elon Musk's X because he doesn't want opponents to "dominate" platforms

Responding to PolHome's @matildamartin.bsky.social, the Lib Dem leader said while he wouldn't totally rule out quitting the website, "sometimes you have to go to places where you may not want to be"

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everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy•38 days ago

@drjennings.bsky.social I agree with you. That's why I wrote An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter https://openpetition.eu/leavex

hobbledehoi.bsky.social•38 days ago

It's been broken in bad faith.

elainejennings1.bsky.social•38 days ago

So wrong

tomontour.bsky.social•38 days ago

He's just interested in there being as many platforms as possible to share photos of him falling into lakes on.

jamessteel2008.bsky.social•38 days ago

Disappointed to hear that especially now as he has an account here on BlueSky.

drjennings.bsky.social•38 days ago

You wouldn't play a sport if you knew the referee was going to be heavily biased against you, and at the same time encouraged the opposing team to abuse you...

ellyblom.bsky.social•38 days ago

I stayed for a while under the misguided assumption that to leave was to capitulate to the toxic haters but it's an unwinnable artificially skewed fight. Just ended up feeling like a pawn being played.
I feel the only way to deal with Fake News Fascist Musk is to disengage completely.

feenp.bsky.social•38 days ago

It's not a sport.

It's a war. You don't leave the battlefield just because enemy has made some advances.

jaowilliams74.bsky.social•38 days ago

Your analogy exactly matches how most fans feel about bloody PGMOL...

amhoward.bsky.social•38 days ago

Davey goes on Kuenssberg's show ... and Question Time and submits to Chris Mason's whataboutery.

amhoward.bsky.social•38 days ago

So he's there because he gets *some* engagement and that's better than the *none* he would get if he departed.

zedwally.bsky.social•38 days ago

I can see his point. There's no counterbalance there any more.

drjennings.bsky.social•38 days ago

The owner of X removed the counterbalance - staying can't fix that.

zedwally.bsky.social•38 days ago

True enough, but a bit of me still feels I should be trying to kick back against him, and them. (I left btw.)

almightrex.bsky.social•38 days ago

and it's a stacked battle, I didn't want to leave twitter any more than the next person but some fights are unwinnable

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk needs to get off X, and get X banned.

sweet-jesus.bsky.social•38 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/sweet-jesus.bsky.social/post/3lfdhkk7u4k2y

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