To think that if everyone who thinks Elon Musk is a menace boycotted X he would have less power

[Sunshineandoranges]

I think I am stating the obvious but someone will soon be explaining why my simple logic is flawed.

I've deleted my X account but I doubt it will make any difference, I was barely on there towards the end. When I first set up my account there were some lovely posters I followed who made me laugh: a ghost, a Father Christmas and of course the Number 10 Downing Street cat. Then it got all nasty so I didn't bother

less power in what way ?

Why don't you think it should be banned?

It's being used to undermine European democracies. I'd ban it in a heartbeat.

The problem is that people who love him still use X so it becomes more of an echo chamber and he still has that power.

I deactivated my account a while back, anyhow.

I stopped using X when that Nazi took over.

It’s wall to wall Racism, Misogyny and lies … with the added addition of unexpected and unwanted Porn.

I’m on Bluesky now, have met some great people

and the holy mass media does a lot more damage when used by the big corporations that own them to spin the narrative they want ?

I'm on X for various (non right-wing narcissist bigot) reasons. So are many others.

Calling people names doesn't really help anything. And I don't think Elon Musk's wealth will be massively affected by it.

71% of the UK’s 1,189 local newspapers are owned by just six companies

https://www.mediareform.org.uk/key-issues/media-ownership-and-control

Oh this is a good post. I love clear data!

I don’t use it, and everyone I know has come off it.

Yes this really shocked me too but might be the kind of thing that finally wakes people up.

America has sunk so low under this government and they are barely in the door.

No he would still have the same control because he has enough money to buy it

I'm also for media reform.

But I don't see it as an argument against banning X.

I came off it. I only used it to follow along comments for things like bake off or the apprentice. Miss it for that as just more people than the MN threads. I have found other places the same but certainly not going back

Got rid of it when he bought Twitter and announced that he planned to reinstate a bunch of people who'd been banned for all sorts of unpleasant behaviour including Trump

Blows my mind that Westminster MP's and govt bodies still use it to be honest especially now.

I find it fascinating actually. I mean tiktok is way more damaging. I'd love to see that banned.

When I worked in strategy, I created a dummy Twitter account as it was on our tech radar.

That account is still active and getting updates about interesting accounts to follow. It's almost as old as my test LinkedIn account. Which is also active (and appears to have had a better career than me).

I never go on anymore, it’s a cesspit of hate and I just can’t face it.

Many organisations have left. I don’t think it makes any difference to be honest, it’s just a way for his base of hate to connect now.

instead of just banning different medias. why dont we teach the public better critical thinking and research skills ? after all the public can study their fav football teams in great deal and watch hours of football games or their fav reality tv programs etc so then they can study politics and there would need no bans

I would love it if the public could be taught better critical thinking skills but that isn't going to happen and, even if it did, it would take decades to come to fruition.

but then the porplem is the govt becomes a dictator byproxy due to banning other forms of media platforms other than the offical state meda which many would argue would then just be propaganda so in a way you cannot have true free media when at the same time banning certain media platforms

There are already banned news media outlets in the UK (Russian ones) and I don't remember anyone raising concerns with those being banned.

I don't view X any differently in terms of it being a hostile-to-the-UK propaganda machine (save for that, as it isn't even really a news outlet, I'd have even less concern about banning X).

I don’t understand when I see people who strongly object to Phoney Stark still using Twitter.

I made this observation to somebody I know who uses it and they responded “I was there first” which seems so childish.

Tesla will hit much harder.

Twitter doesn't need banning. However it does need to be held accountable.