That is against the law
Politics Live on the BBC today:
I’ve seen a couple of clips but I’m not sure I’ll be able to see the whole thing. I haven’t seen the bit where he says that so I can’t confirm that he did say it, but if he did…oy. He’s an MP.
Tip Jar
Went to https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1227531291853234178. Am none the wiser for it. Have not a clue who this bloke in the photo is or what he did/said. Detest Twitter. It’s a shit pot.
Sorry. His name is Lloyd Russell-Moyle and he’s a Labour MP. He was on Politics Live with the historian Selina Todd this morning.
Sorry about Twitter, but it just is a place where a lot of interesting stuff gets reported or discussed or both, so I do use it. If Labour MPs are going on tv to say it’s against the law to fail to consider trans women women, then I want to know about it.
I appreciate the people who can sift through all the garbage on twitter to find anything of value, it must be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Between the self promoting preening assholes, and the venom spewing wannabe sociopaths, finding anything remotely interesting must be a chore indeed.
“Between the self promoting preening assholes, and the venom spewing wannabe sociopaths, finding anything remotely interesting must be a chore indeed.”
Well, those are its best features covered. But what about its worst?
PS: OB, thanx.
“But what about its worst?”
Look no further than the grand poobah of the twitterati, Trump.
Well the way Twitter works, you don’t see all the garbage, you see what people you follow tweet. I have to seek out what Trump says, because I don’t follow him. Most of the sifting is done ahead of time, by your choice of people to follow and then by what you “like” and rt and so on. There’s some garbage because people reply and then others reply to them, but you don’t get a full fire hose of garbage from strangers unless you go looking for it.
And if you’re lucky with whom you follow then you see valuable stuff you wouldn’t have seen otherwise.
Mind you, it took me years to see any point in Twitter at all.
I guess I’d have to join to really know what it’s like. I enjoy discussion board type things, but I never was motivated to do social media proper. From what I’ve seen twitter is the worst of it due to the sound bite format. It’s hard to navigate because usually it takes a ton of digging to get to what people are on about, or who they are, or why should I care. You don’t see much of the story in one or two tweets, which leads to wading through a lot of muck.
I know. That’s how I saw it for a long time, and much of it is just plain factual. But eventually it grew on me – which is not to say I urge anyone else to use it. I’m just explaining why I share tweets here.
Well thanks for doing what you do, I’m not sure I could shield myself from much of it. Like I said it puts me in a bad mood and makes me reactionary so I avoid it. But like you said, if it’s filtered it’s not such a chaotic mess.