Makes me wonder how much of this is a scheme to force people to sign up / re-sign up to X to counter the exodus.
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So how can US citizens be banned from twitter and expected to have access to government twitter ?
Appealing bans by suing them over first amendment right to petition (yes it covers more than freedom of speech)
Looking forward to seeing a bunch of octogenarians trying to figure out Twitter on their phones.
Jesus fucking Christ.
This was the exact phrase I uttered when I saw the headline.
Titty-fucking Christ, even
Jesus Tap dancing Christ
“I know this probably sounds very foreign to you — it did to me as well — and not what we are used to, but we are in different times now,” she added.
Blink if you're in danger.
Fucking Musk needs to GO. He needs to get removed there.
Wtf, are they serious?
They've been saying this for other fed agencies from the get go so, yes?
wow really hoped this was just the onion fucking with me again
Using Twitter violates my religious beliefs. What's the option for me to view these announcements? Recall that "Christian" corporations have successfully argued that being required to fill out a form because their health insurance won't cover birth control is a burden on their religious beliefs.
dude....i am disabled and receive ssi.... I don't want an account on X???? wtf?
I expect the poop emoji to be used a lot with press inquiries
* for press releases and announcements
Headline makes it sound like internal communications, but that's not the case at least currently. Still, we shouldn't rely on third party services for important info - especially one that sometimes requires login to view
Yeah, and most non-Nazis have long left the platform and deleted their account. The log-in issue is a huge one. It effectively blocks a massive portion of the US from getting important information about money that is theirs.
That’s not that much better
So they're still following the steps in Creating a Fascist Regime for Dummies, how surprising.
Kind of crazy to me that governments aren't massively interested in hosting their own fediverse instances. It has huge appeal of providing announcements on a broader platform while also controlling your instance and still being from a .gov source.
It makes no sense for the SSA to run a fediverse instance, because they don't need to host community discussions.
They need to be posting on their website with an RSS feed, just like every other institution.
That requires IT knowledge from a recent decade. Many municipalities have only recently discovered dialup internet.
that made me laugh much harder than it should
Need a government bill forcing all federal comms like this to go over the government’s own federated instance (with RSS please).
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Thanks for that useful tool. I haven't been over there since I was banned in 2020. Stomach turning stuff, just lightly skimming for a few minutes. Any return to normalcy would just shut it down. Free speech ain't just disinformation & hate. Everyone on there should be ashamed of themselves.
Aren't X and Truth Social competitors? Shouldn't they be greasing DJT instead of Musk?