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Charlotte Nichols calls on technology secretary to set out ‘red line’ social media firms must cross before government switches to alternative platforms

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I get why they're using Twitter, as they want to reach as huge audience, but they really should look into running their own Mastodon instance and promoting that instead.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Its probably best for everyone if the UK government remains ignorant of the existence of Mastodon

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

They'll probably force some bullshit age verification on it

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago
[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 10 points 21 hours ago

I guess all the Nazi stuff wasn't enough to trouble them...

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 points 21 hours ago

Coming soon. Follow the government on TikTok!

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

We're all baffled, Charlotte