Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

That’s how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is ‘brave’.

Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-liberty

Take it to a witch-burning.

Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12636545/cartoonist-steve-bell-refuses-apologist-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-sketch.html

The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.

Let’s make farting in public a crime.

Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.

This is old news.

But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?

How do you make steel for wind turbines without fossil fuels? How do you build a nuclear power station without fossil fuels? How do you replace all the petrol and diesel cars in the country with electric ones, without using fossil fuels? Where is all the electricity going to come from? It’s complicated.

I think there is a risk that Threads will be massive, and so people will think that the way to get on Mastodon is Threads, and eventually that Threads is Mastodon. C/f Google Groups and Usenet.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5a77/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search

Even Churches use Facebook. It’s not going to be easy.

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.

I’m not on Facebook but I know people who are, and they are just ordinary people who made a poor choice and didn’t read the terms and conditions. It’s all those people who you are excluding, not just Facebook employees.

I should think there are many people who think Google Groups is Usenet, and they have to register with google to post on there. Recently I think they have removed the option to view the source of an article.

Suspending them before they have actually done anything wrong is a bit like a pre-crime.

Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?

I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.

Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.