Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’

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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’::Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.

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And she would know what a sewer is because she governs Paris.

/Badumtiss

It’s pretty clean nowadays

If you choose to ignore the dog-poop everywhere, then sure, it's very clean.

Man, I heard about this from a friend who just came back from there. Pretty gross.

Except on a few neighborhoods (I'm pretty sure it's the wealthy ones) there is not so much poop anymore. 15 years ago it was actually very anoying, you couldn't walk without co stantly scanning the floor, which would be extremely anoying now that people what to use their phone while walking.

It really isn't lol. It might be the dirtiest capital city I've been to. Although I won't claim to be the most travelled man in the world.

Still a pretty place, mind you. But the shit and the rats let the place down a bit.

Supposedly they're actually working on upgrading the system

So it should be improving soon even if it isn't already

Not only have you been faster with the comment, you have also been upvoted a ton already.

NOW she thinks it's a sewer, but she's ignored all the BS that was always there?

It's always been a sewer.

Yeah, but it used to have marginal treatment facilities. Elon trashed those and sold them for scrap.

She is just running away from a scandal of her using public funds for a holiday while in a mission in French Polynesia. Now she is turning that into a statement

Isn't she the one with the big sewer improvement project to stop flooding the Seine with poop water whenever it storms? She must be basically an expert on sewers among politicians by now, so I'll trust that assessment.

Old and busted: Twitter is the global town square
New hotness: X is the global town sewer

"A gigantic global sewer"? Sounds much like Paris.

I mean it was fine until social media companies knowingly were causing genocide and destroying democracies in Asia, South America and Africa.

But now it's in your face,

"I don't like this. 😭"

I'm curious to see where politicians end up after ditching X. I want to believe that governments could set up their own lemmy/bluesky instances. But my gut is telling me Meta owned platforms will win out due to ease of use and their ability to comply with local European laws.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform.

Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

"This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts," Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

Hidalgo's campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.

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This is our world, these are the morons we inhabit it with.

X is (very stupidly) unregulated in all things that aren't talking shit about Musk, but that just means that we get a daily dosage of "raw humanity" and we don't like it because it's fucking gross. Most social media companies know this and sanitize it for us to enjoy. X is like walking down the street in some really depressed town where drug addicts and weirdos are running around naked shouting at "the man in the wires who tells me to mate with Barny."

people suck (mostly) lol