I parlamentari dovrebbero “interrogare le coscienze” sull’uso di X, afferma un attivista sanzionato dagli Stati Uniti

“Campaigner against free speech tells elected representatives to censor themselves”

Stop the country I’d like to get off.

It’s probably safe to assume – most MPs and their devolved cousins long ago subcontracted their social media feeds to juniors with cast-iron stomachs and a high tolerance for unmetered Waves of bile and bot bait. Anyone personally spelunking through the endless slurry of abuse on X would need chemical assistance, something medicinal, something industrial.

There’s a sense that, were it not for the modern superstition that public figures must be eternally online, many of them would happily pull the plug altogether. But the platform has acquired that uniquely modern status: a place everyone privately despises, yet feels duty-bound to haunt, like a digital parish hall with no exits and very bad lighting…

Not really a matter of conscience, more a grudging necessity.