From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/18/2026 8:27 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   And, you would know this how?   
    >   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
   Why would their name matter? You appropriated your handle impersonating   
   an immigrant guy nodding off under a snow bank. LOL   
    >   
   > Do you imagine that important, interesting people are busy?   
    >   
   Get real. These people get paid to post their views online.   
    >   
    > That they might not get a lot out of spending time entertaining us   
    > with their twits?>   
   Using X to see people naked requires a search, Senor.   
      
   Otherwise, you read your feed - your favorite tweeters. It's all about   
   bias confirmation.   
    >   
      
   >>>   
   >>> 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/   
      
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