Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, citied disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leaving
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
After buying Twitter in 2022, the billionaire Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform. Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and has been criticised, including by the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.
“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.
And they know a thing or two about sewers in Paris!
Which one, the one under the Seine or the one above it?
It’s like this for a long time
It’s about 13 months past time
It’s hugelly different.
You see, physical faeces are something people produce and have to excrete, as a side-effect of feeding not because they want to, and they have to eat to stay alive. Whilst there are some ways to reduce the amount of faeces produced, they’re generally unhealthy, so people have no safe choice other than producing said physical feaces and can’t really hold them in for long before there’s a burst intestine, which can be deadly, hence have no choice than to excrete it.
So sewages dispose of, let’s call it, unavoidable shit.
Mental faeces, on the other hand, do not at at all need to be produced, and even if produced need not be excreted. Further, unlike physical faeces, they are not produced as a side effect of feeding and rather are generally produced as a side effect of exposure to other people’s excreted mental faeces.
X, unlike sewages, does not dispose of mental faeces, rather it both incentivies people to excrete their mental faeces instead of keeping them in and displays them prominetly for others to see which in turn increases the production of mental faeces in other people.
So X is almost the very opposite of sewages: the latter dispose of the kind of shit that’s an unavoidable side effect of being alive whilst the former incentivises the excretion of and increases the exposure to the kind of shit that would otherwise exist only in the minds of a minority of people, plus in doing so increases the production of that kind of shit in previously unaffected humans - in other words, sewages reduce exposure to and harm from physical shit whilst X not only increases exposure to and the harm from mental shit, it even increases production of it.
that’s the most French exit ever. I love it.
where all my Franks at? ou est tout mes francs
Je parle à peine français. Je suis désolé, je suis américain et je n’ai pas la capacité de pratiquer mon français.
Je soutiens le maire Hidalgo
The global town
squarelatrine.“citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.” That was my experience on Twitter before I quit it. "gigantic global sewer”–accurate
Someone should tell her about the fediverse
Twitter+ X = Xitter.
That leaves Reddit as a decommissioned sewage treatment plant turned into a bum fight squat haven.
truer words were never spoken
Twitter with Tweetdeck was a wonderful means of following the news using the List feature. It still works if you use lists but without Tweetdeck it isn’t as useful.
That said, I barely even use the app anymore. I used to be able to only see what I wanted to see, now Elon is forcing right wing propaganda on everyone.
It always was. Wonder why certain people are just now seeing it? Hmm.
Why don’t you just say what you are implying?
since you seem to know what i am writing about better than I do, why don’t you just enlighten us all?
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It was a sewer before Elon. Only when she gets called out via a hashtag, now it’s the reason to leave? Ok. Sounds legit.
Its our sewer though.
Or was our sewer, though