Irlanda [oc]

This dosent make sense

Chef’s kiss, no notes.

It’s inevitable that people so very “concerned” for “free speech” are going to arrive to give some much needed hot takes, so let’s address that preemptively 😀

twitter is not the only social media platform and most people use instagram and tiktok anyway. That doesn’t mean those platforms are better but that there are options. And every institution and public figure uses several of those options already

But social media aren’t the only option now, are they? There are official websites, actual media, public releases, press conferences and so on and so forth – the official channels of communication with the constituents that have been there before social media and that are there still.

“but.. but.. twitter is faster!!!” and so is the internet itself. TV stations, media, internet shitposters, you name it – they all can immediately pick up something some politician communicates in the public space regardless whether it was twitter or not, and post about it. In fact, it’s actually media’s job to follow this shit day and night regardless of whether the statement first appears on twitter or not.

But the best thing is that any politician can actually communicate with their constituents very directly. There’s nothing stopping them from setting up a public meeting with the constituents to actually talk to them, instead of posting some shit into the void of twitter internet where the constituents can freely scream at it with no reaction from the politician who posted it and only get picked up by far right extremist bots.

So no, losing twitter means literally nothing for anyone’s free speech and even less for politicans’ means to communicate with their constituents. 😀

Every government & EU institution could be running their own BlueSky & Mastodon instances.

Solves all the problems with moderation, digital sovereignty, and let’s them put it all under their own cybersecurity umbrellas. Plus, there’s plenty of phone apps out there that can deliver the same experience.

So my guess is that politicians still on X are just in it for their egos.

Europe should learn something from Brazil and be a bit more assertive. When X defied Brazilian law, the entire platform was banned. Then Musk tried to sleaze his way out by closing Twitter offices there, but again, the justice system went after Starlink.

Eventually they had to back down and conform to the law, as the financial impact just could not be ignored.

Meanwhile, European politicians just “express outrage” somewhere and go on with their lives as if nothing had happened

I’m conflicted by this, in general. Already had this discussion before.

AI is a tool, and as a tool, it can be used for good or evil acts, like a gun, hell, like a spade. You can use a spade for farming, or to hit someone in the head.

When a criminal shoots someone, we go after the criminal, not the company that manufactured/designed the pistol.

Isn’t AI tools the same case? Why in this case are we going after the “tool maker” instead of the piece of shit that used the tool to generate that content?

On another note, how in the hell the AI knew how to generate what it was asked for? Did they fed it with that so it knew what to generate?

Tech is moving so fast that I don’t think laws and regulations are keeping up to control all of this.