Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.
  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    365·
    11 months ago

    she’s right.

    Twitter or what ever the fuck it is now called, is a degenerated cesspool run by a narcissistic freak with a god complex…and no you shouldn’t have an account on that very platform.

    • supimacat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      X is like a clogged sewer just backing up with garbage until one day when it will explode violently. it’ll be so much fun to watch

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Elon: Oh yeah? Well, I’m a free-speech absolutist! So, I’m banning all of France from Twi… I mean X!

    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Sewerage fulfills an important function and not all are created equal.

      I get crapping on social media, but let’s have an honest discussion involving its merits and drawbacks so that it can become better.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    After buying Twitter in 2022, 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 was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

    “This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts,” Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

    Hidalgo’s campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

    More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

    X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.

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    • nyctre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      No way you’ve been there and you actually believe that. What didn’t you like about it? That was actually specific to Paris, I’m not talking about stuff like “it’s crowded” or “stuff is closed on Sunday”

      • NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
        52·
        11 months ago

        Extremely dirty. People are assholes. Graffiti everywhere. The train to CDG felt like it went through a third world country, it goes through miles and miles of slums. There’s a hotline set up for Japanese tourists who visit Paris and are so disillusioned that they need emotional support.

    • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
      104·
      11 months ago

      Pretty sure the Mayor of Paris was referring to twitter. Lots of context clues in there.

      • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
        52·
        11 months ago

        Oh yeah?! Prove it! I won’t read that either!

        ETA: I hope I didn’t actually offend you, I was just trying to continue my joke by doubling down on ignorance. Love your photography, btw

      • rodolfo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        I think she knows Paris better than Twitter. Anyway, I’d agree with her nonetheless.