“Senior ministers are considering whether it is appropriate for them to continue to use the platform, with Enterprise Minister Peter Burke saying the Government should make a “collective decision” about whether to stay on X.”
Most US Big Tech firms have their European HQ in Ireland, so that country plays an outsized role in regulating them. Although some EU law is administered continent-wide, much of it is administered in the individual country of jurisdiction. So Twitter/X refusing to meet Irish government ministers to answer their questions about Grok AI’s creation of child porn, and its distribution on X, has implications for X & Grok’s European-wide operations.
If the Irish government abandons X, it’s almost certain other EU governments will follow. This all seems part of a break-up trend where the divergence between the EU and the US is accelerating. The US says it wants to end the EU. Perhaps in return the EU will want to end the role US Big Tech plays on the continent.
Every government should host their own Mastodon server if they insist on publishing things this way.
Every organisation with a digital front should host their own servers and data.
I believe its ridiculous how we evolved into paying massive amounts of money just to have someone else own and possibly mistreat our data.
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A lot of journalists are on Twitter/X due to the politicans being on it. So when politicans agree to leave, the journalists have a good reason to leave too. With the algorithm supporting the far right, this leads to positive results all around.
It’s to late to just consider.
“Senior ministers are considering whether it is appropriate for them to continue to use the platform, with Enterprise Minister Peter Burke saying the Government should make a “collective decision” about whether to stay on X.”
Easy decision. Leave Twitter/X.
Blue-sky and Mastadon are already fairly well established alternatives, already being used by some governments and many companies/organisations that don’t want to be associated with the increasingly right-wing cesspool of Twitter/X
There’s no good argument for remaining on twitter. It’s just enabling, at this point.
To be honest if I hear someone is still using Twitter I immediately know this person will be on the Nazis side just to try to stay comfortable when the worst comes.
These are the people that will be like “their in the attic”
some??? why the fuck not all
The Purpose of a System is What It Does. This is an image generator named MechaHitler run by a Nazi paedophile. Its product is its intention.
They should follow my example: I left twitter ages ago. So I can’t hear them anymore.
