Social media boycott. . .

Bernhard

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This weekend , along with leading UK football clubs and players number ofsporting bodies will lead a four day boycott of social media platforms from Friday to takle abuse and discrimination. It hopes to encourage companies like Instagram, Facebook and othertake a stronger stance against racist and sexist abuse on their platforms.
I wpnder what people are going to do with their time all weekend?
 
The joys of modern living?
Boring old fart here who's never been/tried or has the desire to use any of them, but as devil's advocate aren't they just shooting the messenger?
Who controls the controllers??
 
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I am so sick of the SJW nonsense. Worse than the vicar coming round to ask why you weren't at service!
If you wish to make a difference, make it a one to one thing in your everyday life. Save the 'Movements'
for your bowels. :) Just my opinion please take no offense.
 
Bernhard said:
This weekend , along with leading UK football clubs and players number ofsporting bodies will lead a four day boycott of social media platforms from Friday to takle abuse and discrimination. It hopes to encourage companies like Instagram, Facebook and othertake a stronger stance against racist and sexist abuse on their platforms.
I wpnder what people are going to do with their time all weekend?
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Doesn't make grammatical sense @Bernhard. Who "along with" are going to make this pointless stance?
Looks like a name, group, body have been edited out of your text.
 
robs ss said:
Doesn't make grammatical sense @Bernhard. Who "along with" are going to make this pointless stance?
Looks like a name, group, body have been edited out of your text.
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I'm guessing there's an comma then the letter 'a' missed:
This weekend , along with leading UK football clubs and players, a number ofsporting bodies will lead a four day boycott of social media platforms
 
The non political part of you tube is fine. A great help in sorting even bike problems. But who goes to a sports event to
seek political social protest? You cannot even watch a game without being bludgeoned by this stuff.
I know plenty of bikers who would not be on the same side politically as me. But we don't talk much about politics
but about our shared interest.
 
Onder said:
The non political part of you tube is fine. A great help in sorting even bike problems. But who goes to a sports event to
seek political social protest? You cannot even watch a game without being bludgeoned by this stuff.
I know plenty of bikers who would not be on the same side politically as me. But we don't talk much about politics
but about our shared interest.
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Indeed, as I’ve argued before, we have lost the ability to agree to disagree.

These days, if you say something that I disagree with, you’re not ‘that decent bloke who happens to have a different opinion to me’ instead you’re suddenly ‘racist, sexist, bigoted, facist, evil, nasty and need to be ridiculed, attacked, silenced’ etc.

Its wrong.

And it’s dangerous.
 
Okay.... Whilst us old duffers are putting the world to rights (!), I lose the plot when 'personal responsibility' seems to be an outmoded idea.
There was a 'news' article highlighting the number of people with near maximum points on their driving license, and how the poor mites were just one 'minor misdemeanour' away from a ban.
Yet the tone of writer seemed to infer this was all wrong, and nobody should be banned for the parking offence that pushes them over the limit...
Am I alone in decrying this mindset?
 
F me;
I don't make the news.....what goes on in the rest of the world, including the racism and fascism etc is not my doing, but if the sporting bodies decides to boycott the social news media for a long weekend because of their inability to censor some of the crap on their websites. . . . . . . . .
 
EstuaryBoy said:
Okay.... Whilst us old duffers are putting the world to rights (!), I lose the plot when 'personal responsibility' seems to be an outmoded idea.
There was a 'news' article highlighting the number of people with near maximum points on their driving license, and how the poor mites were just one 'minor misdemeanour' away from a ban.
Yet the tone of writer seemed to infer this was all wrong, and nobody should be banned for the parking offence that pushes them over the limit...
Am I alone in decrying this mindset?
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Big time!

One of the best recent examples of the abdicating of personal responsibility for me was all this fuss about people in compulsory hotels after arriving from red zone areas decrying the fact their human rights were being infringed, held against their will, etc, etc.

NO... you booked that hotel room before you travelled... you paid for it on your own credit card... it was a deliberate decision and a choice that you made and agreed to. That RIGHT THERE is your personal choice and personal responsibility.

Do not turn it into some bogus human rights crusade you tw*t !
 
One does have to see that the current nonsense (fill in your vote for just which one) is just an opportunity for some to use whatever 'ism' to feather their nest, fill their pockets and consolidate their power. Human nature never changes, just the faces and names involved in scamming the vast majority who just want to live their lives. Hypocrisy has never been so on display as in the past year.
 
I don't care. Never uses Facebook or Twitter. Sometimes spend a small amount of time looking at Youtube.
Not sure if I exists.
 
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Politics is like dirty underwear-everyone has some, but anybody who wants anyone else to see theirs has something wrong with them. I keep mine to myself until someone rubs theirs in my face. This is why I don't do Facebook.
 
Facebook is as good as your mates make it, fun mates = entertaining Facebook. Boring / pompous mates = politiking & campaigning.

Twitter is a PR system, I follow various organisations to find out what is going on, events etc. There is also some great comedy / satire to be found.

p.s. -this- is 'social media'.
 
When freedom of speech is used as an excuse for hate speech, it puts that basic freedom at risk. Social media permits the airing of opinions which do not necessarily reflect the content of political propaganda. So it actually has value. It is too easy for people to allow themselves to be programmed by the media, to conform in ways which ate not always in their best interests. Whenever I read anything, I always think in terms of probability and likelihood. I am a Doubting Thomas.
 
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