Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
towerful@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Good.
Governments should run their own mastadon instances, and provide official accounts for all their public servants, staff, whatever they are called, as well as an account for each agency.
But quitting twitter is a good first step
I agree. But this is labour MPs. MP != Government even when members of leading party. Only those with ministerial positions are in government.
As Members of parliament outside ministerial government positions are considered to have free speech and not to be representing the government when speaking, The choice of communication media must be down to the individuals.
Can you imagine the conservatives trying to work it? Mogg famously didn’t use a computer
Streamwave@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Interestingly, the European Union has been doing exactly this for about a year now on an experimental basis.
…europa.eu/…/social-media-connect-european-commis…
uk.pcmag.com/…/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-s…
edps.europa.eu/…/edps-decentralised-social-media-…