UK government starting to think about leaving X
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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 food truck and wants to reach customers to sell burritos. We are talking about entities that are so large that they make their own gravity.
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@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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It's the government, they spend millions of public money in pr, they should have never had a twitter account to begin with and should have used their own tools.
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It's the government, they spend millions of public money in pr, they should have never had a twitter account to begin with and should have used their own tools.
Government creates announcement feed. No-one knows about it because they can only advertise it on their own announcement feed.
What now?
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@palordrolap @brachiosaurus They put it on their website and mention it in their communications. People and journalists sibscribe.
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@palordrolap @brachiosaurus They put it on their website and mention it in their communications. People and journalists sibscribe.
Where are their communications? Who visits a government website without needing to?
To me it makes sense that they should cover as much ground as possible and have accounts on all major platforms as well as making announcements on TV and radio.
And in order to do so they should have their own accounts on there in order that their message gets across directly without having to go through a third party that has an account on there.
Now, when that site starts espousing "free speech" of the sort that only they like, then it might be a good idea to not use that particular platform any more, because that brings in the third party interference that wasn't there in the first place, even if the site was technically third party.
But hey whatever, now let's make, say, the BBC the mouthpiece of the government - it's not like the Tories didn't try really hard to do that when they were in power - and have everyone report on that. Far better.
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@palordrolap @brachiosaurus If they are publishing something .. it should be available to everyone. I domtnhave an issue with Meta or X taking a feed (RSS or Activitypub ) of their posts and publishong them ( like a TV or radio programme does.
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At this point, if you know what X has been doing and you're still on there, you're condonning the sick images it's producing and spreading. ESPECIALLY if you're paying for it. The UK government (where I'm from) need to treat it as it would any other site that produces this sick, harmful material. If this was some no-name site run by some poor, no influence guy from his bedroom, they would have blocked it weeks ago.
They need a scan of your ID because you might be a kid, but they're pondering regarding leaving X
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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.
@palordrolap @rglullis Indeed. You cant even see what a UK government is posting without handing over your data. -
@palordrolap @brachiosaurus There are a few differences. Governments dont generally make announcements on a particular TV station but usually provide an open access press conference.
Gov.uk is the 17th most visited site in UK in Dec 25- semrush.com/trending-websites/… - plenty of people visit that and its not even all of gov sites.
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Is this one of thoses cases where a petition might be a starting point?
