UK Politics Thread

I have to say, out of all of them the YT algo is pretty good. It never shows me right wing content or even anti-SJW content for stuff I do like. It knows me pretty well.

Even twitter doesn't show me any right wing content unless its being dunked on by some idiot. Annoyingly, though, my feed is 90% trans content. Maybe because I follow a few (now) trans people like Haus of Decline and Philosophy Tube and people are constantly retweeting JKR but I get nothing but inane shite about taking oestrogen.

The weirdest one is Instagram. I've never seen an ad algorithm like it. Everything it shows me, I want to buy. Its absolutely uncanny. The content feed, however, is laughably shit. It shows me nothing but parkour and DIY reels.

But, yeah, overall I get pretty much no right wing content pushed to me unless the creator has a nervous breakdown and pivots to it.

If you want a hideously ugly plant pot made out of raw concrete for some reason, I am now your guy.

Tldw version?

Blocking the "Jordan Peterson clips" channel was pretty satisfying, fuck knows why it suggested it.

There is nothing more persecuted in this country than a middle class white person.

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Or maybe foxes

Make foxes a protected minority and make it open season on fox hunters and see how they like it.

Give the foxes guns

or give them those robot dogs from the black mirror episode (sure google has already given their robot dogs a few weapons)

www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/12/labour-mps-begin-quitting-x-over-hate-and-disinformation

About time that a few people have started to take some initiative and drop Twitter/X. It's all well and good to moan about it, but if people carry on using it then there isn't much chance of an alternative emerging.

The journalists all use it because the politicians all use it, and because it's a good way to pick up breaking (but possibly false) news stories. 

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem though, and also influenced by international factors. 
Even if you could get all the UK politicians to simultaneously jump ship to some other platform, I guess the journalists would still need to be on it for US news, Ukraine news, etc.. 

So the worry is that decent people and politicians leaving just cedes ground to all the right wing idiots, making them seem more important than they really are. 

I don't think I've ever seen an embedded Thread, Bluesky or Mastodon post on the BBC or any other news website I've looked at. 

A concerted push to get Labour etc.. politicians to move to some other platform isn't a bad idea, but I still have a feeling they'll all end up back on Twitter in a few months, because they'll get fed up of being ignored. 

I don't suppose there are any easy options for cross-posting to all platforms? There used to be, but I assume Musk shut that down with all his api changes/charges. 
If there is, it'd be a more seamless way to mirror content on non-X platforms, and then be able to shut off X usage without disruption. 

Or maybe the UK government should set up its own UK-politics Mastodon server and invite all politicians and journalists. 

I don’t know what the answer is really. It’s still really useful for breaking news and despite all the bots/trolls/fake news it’s the easiest way to get a handle of a situation that many, even good journalists and publications can, for better or worse, can struggle to ‘get out ‘ within a decent time.

I think the easiest way to start would be having ‘Twitter strikes’ where on a certain day people deactivate their accounts for a day. But with service of 160+ million users I don’t know how much what would likely be 20,000 people deactivating their account would have.

On a side note, been really noticeable how the mask as slipped on a lot of right wing commentators/politicians over the last couple of weeks. They’re not even trying to hide their views anymore. It’s like they gone fuck it and now are openly being racist/trolling. It’s grim.