RtwRich

Back as @richtwarms over in the new old place.

Said before, but this time I'm done with this. We can't let a spoiled, insecure, prejudiced billionaire play with people's lives like the world is his toy. Enough of the privileged. Their greed, entitlement, attempts to control. Goodbye old Twitter, that brought people together.

@the_transit_guy Why does any pyramid selling scheme crash?

Jack Hart, of Hull, who had already been fined six times for driving offences, killed Steven Duffield and Mason Deakin after illegally entering a bus lane and driving at 57mph in 30mph zone. He later blamed them. Where were the Hull rioters then? itv.com/news/calendar/…

@JonnElledge @IanDunt Sorry, last one - if the enquiry is the action, why are thousands of people still living in unsafe homes, often having to pay for remediation rather than being compensated, for example? Like this violence, is it ok to leave people and communities in fear for a decade?

@RTWRich @IanDunt But the enquiry *would* to some extent be the action. It'd be about making people who've spread hate explain themselves in public.

Yep. The moment now is for the Home Office & police, not parliament. It's operational, not political. But we would do well to later set up a process that took in all the strands: social media, far-right groups, right-wing TV news channels, the mainstreaming of conspiracy.

@JonnElledge @IanDunt It's been obvious for a decade that social media and big tech needs better regulation (just as mass broadcasting did, because we saw its power, its risks), and indeed, more effective competition. Gov't loves a bit of elite school / university debate, paperwork & chin scratching.

@JonnElledge @IanDunt I just feel the ability to create long-running sagas - at vast cost, followed by a tiny few, resulting in conclusions / evidence that was quite probably available in a matter of weeks or months - is fine for long run policy, just not when there is a need for faster correction.

I suspect there's a correlation between people who believe dark mode *everything* saves the eyes and (significantly) saves their batteries, and a tendency towards conspiracy theories and general poor quality thinking. There's no evidence it does much for your eyes.

@JimmyRiddl87422 @AnnCov65 @davidyelland Oh, you were there were you? Or you're just repeating interpretations of social media clip edits. Please do go back to listening to the bot farm managers. Religion does not define who is good and bad.

@RTWRich @AnnCov65 @davidyelland I think the chants of allu Akbar gave it away.

One of the most repulsive, inaccurate and frankly embarrassing headlines in the history of the Daily Telegraph. It has appalled many of its own journalists. It is beneath contempt.

@josiahmortimer "A good lad". The absolute ignorance.

Yvette Cooper, Home Sec, writes in @thetimes that "those who whip up hatred on social media will face the same reckoning as rioters" Why not the proprietors and journalists of these papers 👇who for years have been doing precisely that, day in, day out, to a much wider reach ?

@AnnCov65 @davidyelland (You can't, of course, just in case that wasn't really clear).

@AnnCov65 @davidyelland Funny how you believe you can tell someone's religion from this photo, isn't it?

Time we decided if UK values & information are run by global big tech, social media platforms, billionaires, media barons & outside influence? Or if we're regulating for fair competition & trusted content, to safeguard democracy. Turning point. @UKLabour @libdems @libdemdaisy

This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. @elonmusk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s critical that we now do. theguardian.com/media/article/…

@LeftBrexit @davidyelland The words and pictures tell us it did not. Unless you managed to carry out an in depth survey of the religion of everyone in the areas, and whether or not they 'clashed' or were involved in any way, but as innocent bystanders. The ignorance of reality, the reality of prejudice.

@davidyelland It did happen, though.

@davidyelland Are @bbc5live @BBCr4today @skynews going to report on this? This is vile. It really is reminiscent of 1930s Germany scapegoating Jews.

@davidyelland So how many journalists at the Telegraph are principled enough to walk out? Deserves to close down after this. Regulating media does not mean closing down free speech. We live in a liberal society, not a libertarian free-for-all. @UKLabour @libdems @libdemdaisy @campbellclaret

@arthistorynews How so?

@RTWRich No this is v different