Comment on UK government starting to think about leaving X

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How?

  Twitter is not a public place and has been looking more and more like the opposite of it. Nowadays you can not even go someone’s profile to browse their timeline without logging in.

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    @rglullis @abeorch

    It may not be a public place per se, but it is a place where a very large cohort of the general public go.

    Perhaps my analogy should have been "This is bit like saying that governments shouldn't make announcements on television and radio stations not under government control."

    The same logic applies there. Of course they should. A large cohort of the general public watch television and listen to the radio (less so these days in the age of the Internet, but people do still watch and listen there.).

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    • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus But generally government officials make announcements at press conferences in government buildings with an open method for press to become acredited and attend. Sure politicians do media appearances - buts thats different - they are normally acting as an individual - effectively as a candidate.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TV stations and radio channels are under government control. The government is the one who controls the licenses for spectrum.

      it is a place where a very large cohort of the general public go.

      Unless your are completely inept at technology and you have no regards for open standards, there is zero reason to think “just go wherever the audiences are” is a sensible strategy for public institutions.

      The internet at large is still accessible. RSS is still a thing. Email is still a thing. If people really are so interested in following status updates from the government, they can easily go to the government-owned website. We are not talking about someone running a good truck and is looking to advertise to some customers. We are talking about entities that are so large that they have their own gravity.

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• abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  @palordrolap @rglullis @brachiosaurus Government should post things in publoc places but X and Facebook arent public. They are like shopping malls - free to talk into but put restrictions around what you can do, substitute public law for.private contractual agreements and they replace public justice for their abitrary decision making about behalviour and extract costs ( data, tracking, attention sellijg & emotional manulipulation) from visitors. All of these things are bad for citizen involvement.

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