Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform
EXCLUSIVE: Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer
There is already a free speech platform called Gab Social, which follows America's 1st amendment. How could a fool like Liz Truss pretend to care about free speech, when people in her country routinely get the police at their door for posting memes? I'm so sick of free speech being nothing more than a trend or a buzzword used by rich people.
Lemme guess, they're gonna launch a private Mastodon server.
I hope not.
4chan?
Aren't there enough right wing echo bunkers at this point?
I sincerely hope this is the last time I read about Liz Truss and she just disappears into the sands of history.
Nah, she’s gonna get mentioned everytime the shortest PMship did the worst damage ever…ratio’d of course.
There we go again. Another Trump bitch trying to please the orange morron. Maybe she can share a bed with Nigel Farage.
She even talks like a Trump. Is it contagious?
Something is, since conservatives appear to be the same organization operating globally now.
But I really think they're opportunists mostly just dumbly copy catting each other with se exceptions.
Mind virus.
Truss social
Oh good, yet another shitty twitter clone.
I don't get why they keep developing separate ones. at some point it has to be quicker to just roll mastodon and defederate from all other instances
Truth social is mastodon fork so following the suit is possible. On my masto feed someone posted its link as reference and I was surprised thay my masto client handled it as just like one of the instance
Wouldn't charging money for blue checks or adding a subscription leave them open to lawsuits? That's really the only reason I can think of, wanting to make money.
Hey, I've seen this one before.
LettuceConnect
Jesus, this woman is desperate to stretch out her 15 minutes. How sad
Truss Social?
Lettuce social.
sounds like an ad for a hernia strap!
Cheese markets
So, do you guys think that her social media platform will last longer or less than a piece of lettuce?
A lettuce probably has more leaves than her platform will have users.
Hahaha!
Oh, sod off, Liz...
"Lettuce Speak".
"Lettuce Speak Freely"
Good. Spread the fascists out on too many shitty platforms for them to organize well.
Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?
Less than on Scaramouche, I bet.
Gonna be tough to beat mixer. I think she can pull it off.
Every "free speech" platform is, in reality, a "speech I like" platform.
Every “free speech” platform is, in reality, a hate speech platform.
Even more a 'i want to say hateful stuff and not be held accountable for my own stupidity' platform.
Same same.
You'll need to make new account every 49 days
I remember Lizz Truss. For a short time I could winge about the conservative party to cab drivers without any fear that they would agree with them.
One of the good things about the UK is Trump style behaviour does not work here for long. Unfortunately it's more of an objection to incompetence than bigotry but that's life
Didn't that Trump style behavior convince you guys to leave the EU?
Fair. You have a point.
Though notably Boris didn't get away with everything after the fact. There were penalties for incoherent and inconsistent COVID and his hypocrisy.
Though it does concern me that it's entirely possible that only happened because A) a conservative wrote a report bashing his parties and B) right wing media groups didn't defend Boris
In a way.
But there was a lot of lies that represented legitimate concerns and remain didn't really do a good enough job of bringing leave along with them. Pleanty of "we got lied too, no on told us". No no no no. Remain clearly said the truth and you listened to the lies.
Also fish was fucking weird. Seems like people will die over fish.
But people were told immigration would go down. People have been wanting immigration to go down for 60 years and it's never happened. First direct vote about immigration going down is obviously going to be a big factor. Didn't happen though so far right will win soon.
Not really, the politicians with a Trumpian style (Johnson and Truss) came after brexit and got there because of the polarisation caused by brexit (and had the example of Trump himself). There was definitely a lot of lying and false claims that were used by the leave campaign in order to get brexit and it shared some similarities with Trump, but it wasnt politics in the the style of being completely divorced from reality and overwhelming incompetance that defines Trump.
Yes but if you bring up that fact, they can’t act self righteous
Hasn‘t she embarrassed herself enough by now?
Haven't you heard? She isn't the type to give up.
Stupid cunt.
Another badly executed neoliberal neocon shithole predicated on open-source tech and standards yay!
Fully expecting this to be like Truth Social, based off fediverse software with no attribution and no federation.
Truss Social?
Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.
Feel like I've seen this one before
Just like every other supposed "free speech" platform, eh? How'd that all work out?
breXit v2: Economic Crash Boogaloo
Why I ask ?
Money
Last I checked the UK has no guarantees of free speech.
They do for the freedom of expression, as do most EU countries:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
We both know that this kind of nuanced take isn't was Truss is aiming for, though. Otherwise she wouldn't use the "free speech" canard.
