From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:48:49 -0000 (UTC), Tara    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Feb 18, 2026 at 10:34:49?AM EST, "Noah Sombrero"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:07:27 +0000, Julian    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Twitter ? or X if you must ? is essential for bypassing traditional   
   >>> institutions   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> At the time of writing, the British Government is apparently preparing   
   >>> legislation that many expect will lead to Twitter, formally known as   
   >>> ?X?, being blocked. Officially this is because the platform?s in-built   
   >>> AI language model allows users to manipulate images of third parties so   
   >>> it appears that they are wearing nothing but lingerie. Yet critics,   
   >>> including the US government,  regard it as a thinly-disguised attempt to   
   >>> censor a primary forum of opposition. Either way, millions of people   
   >>> across the country are now faced with the horrifying ? and, for many,   
   >>> unprecedented ? prospect of actually having to do their jobs in order to   
   >>> stave off boredom.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Stave off boredom.  There is something to that.  Naked people always   
   >> were a tititlation.   
   >   
   >everything will be abused (or used) in some way if given enough freedom. I use   
   >X to (once in a while) read what people I am interested in say what they have   
   >to say. And I've never seen a naked person on X. Maybe because I'm not   
   >interested in seeing a naked person on X.   
      
   Understood.  You are discerning.  Many others are not.  And it is the   
   others that drive the enterprise.   
      
   The whole thing falls apart for me when I consider that there is no   
   truth requirement, and no way for you or even x to really know that   
   people are who they say they are.  Why leave yourself open to that?   
      
   Do you imagine that important, interesting people are busy?  That they   
   might not get a lot out of spending time entertaining us with their   
   twits?   
      
   >>   
   >> But you think x has some other use.  It is a primary forum of   
   >> opposition.  Which would be good if only such opposition could be   
   >> true.  But a toxic mix of naked people and lies?  What possible use is   
   >> that, other than rescuing people from boredom?   
   >>   
   >>> For the large majority of the population however, the idea of banning   
   >>> the social media site is a complete non-issue. Supposedly, around 40 per   
   >>> cent of British adults access the platform monthly, but this figure   
   >>> seems implausibly high. Most prefer one or more of either Facebook,   
   >>> Instagram or TikTok. Since it was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022, Twitter   
   >>> must have seemed to those who don?t use it to have been nothing but   
   >>> trouble. Those still relying on the BBC or the papers for their news   
   >>> have been drip-fed continuous stories about ?misinformation? and online   
   >>> abuse.   
   >>>   
   >>> What the broadcasters and the newspapers won?t tell their viewers and   
   >>> readers, however, is that their reporters, producers, editors and   
   >>> directors positively live on the site...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> https://thecritic.co.uk/why-twitter-matters/   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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