Irish Examiner: Government bodies need to get off X, now

Natasha 🇪🇺

"Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed"

"... most Government departments continue to use X for their outbound comms with the Irish people, with several, including the HSE, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Transport (via TFI and the TII) providing essential real-time updates via this now-niche third party platform — some exclusively so."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html

#Ireland #IE #Mastodaoine #X #SocialMedia

Leave X - Protect Democracy

@Natasha_Jay we second that:

https://leavex.eu

cc @ElaineActivism

#LeaveX

Ciara 😢

@Natasha_Jay I can’t believe it’s taken this long for anyone in the media to start calling for this 🤬

Leave X - Protect Democracy

@Natasha_Jay @ciara unbelievable, isn't it?

Natasha 🇪🇺

@ciara
Finally. Quite a good piece too I thought.

Elaine Baker

@Natasha_Jay Thanks for the link, please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons

everton137

@Natasha_Jay @ciara @leavex I made a cartoon explaining that

https://gram.social/p/leavex/924009082908185334

everton137

@Natasha_Jay @ciara @leavex this one also after asking in person a MEP why her colleagues don't leave X

https://gram.social/p/leavex/924068826071329810

Elaine Baker

@Natasha_Jay @ciara totally agree - Please also sign and share this petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

@Natasha_Jay
C'mon Ireland.
Do the right thing.
Leave the Nazi platform.

Urzl

@Natasha_Jay It's just too easy now to do this right.

Every government needs their own Fediverse instance. They get authoritative control of their platform and identity while the public gets free, non-commercial access to the agencies governing their lives.

kryten

@Natasha_Jay I've always thought that it's fucking pathetic, no PATHETIC!, that it's become the norm for public agencies around the world to use twitter, facebook, instagram, linkedin, etc for communication.

Learn to build a fucking website!

Bill Halcyon

@Natasha_Jay

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@Natasha_Jay

I said back when Twitter was new:

Government communications should never be first on a third-party platform. They should build an open system for notifications, either RSS or something that allows explicit push. If people like Twitter, Facebook, or whatever the kids are using now want to build a bridge from that so that their users can consume things, that's fine. But it shouldn't be public money building that bridge. It's a thing that adds value to that commercial service and so should be paid for by the people who want it.

I said the same thing about BBC iPlayer when it launched, but they still maintain proprietary client apps for a variety of proprietary platforms and use license-fee money to promote lock-in to platforms owned and controlled by foreign corporations.