Liz Truss Announces 'Uncensorable' Social Media Venture (thetimes.com)
- Reference: 0177056911
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2250222/liz-truss-announces-uncensorable-social-media-venture
- Source link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/liz-truss-social-media-platform-free-speech-dh0wf69sp
> [Liz Truss will [2]launch an "uncensorable" social media platform this summer .] The shortest-serving prime minister, who was quickly shown the door after [3]crashing the UK economy , claims the platform is needed to take on the Deep State. Truss has worked diligently to earn comparisons to Trump with appearances at American political rallies sporting a red MAGA cap. The effort has paid off with Trump's recent tariff announcement and resulting market meltdown, resulting in the two brands combined in the neologism
>> Liz Trump
> to mark the unprecedented economic policy disasters of the two politicians.
>
> Truss' continuing in Trump's footsteps is creating her own uncensored social media platform for the UK to talk about important matters, which apparently is unable to be achieved without censorship on Musk's X or Trump's Truth Social. While a name has yet to be announced,
>> [4]Lettuce Talk
> has been suggested as appropriate for a platform run by a prime minister whose term was famously outlasted by a head of lettuce.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~databasecowgirl
[2] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/liz-truss-social-media-platform-free-speech-dh0wf69sp
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrlx5yxr60o
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce
"You thought my premiership was a disaster?" (Score:2)
"You ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Any bets? (Score:4, Interesting)
So 'uncensorable' and announced at a 'blockchain' event; do we think that they'll go the route of actually being on chain, to technically deliver something adjacent to the promise at enormous cost in actual usability; or will that be too much effort and it'll be a standard whatever-cloudflare-will-put-up-with effort with minimal interest in moderation but no actual technical resistance to 'censorship' as soon as it's someone posting kiddie porn in ways that actually put the operators on the hook, rather than just internet assholes being what they are?
Re: (Score:2)
Indeed. That said, I wonder why nobody has crashed a crapcoin that way yet. In fact, I have discussed that type of attack with other security experts a few years back.
Starting a social media platform (Score:2)
Is dirt cheap because there's open source solutions you can just spin up on any one of a number of hosting providers. So if you're a corrupt politician looking to have money funneled into you that's the current go-to besides crypto scams and those are a little bit too obvious for the United Kingdom at the moment.
At the moment.
Re: (Score:2)
Yet Kevin Rose can't restart Digg without per-funnded accounts going for $5 each?
Re: (Score:2)
There's a huge difference between trying to make a website profitable in the long-term and making a "website" that is hardly more than a cardboard cutout designed to trick investors into making bad investments.
The social media startups and AI startups of today are eerily similar to the dot-com startups of the late 90s.
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, it's not technically difficulty; you just do what Trump did and slap your branding on Mastodon or something like that.
I think the reason it's news is that Liz Truss has a 14% positive and 64% negative rating, so the idea investors backing *her* slapping her branding on something to sell it is something of a head scratcher.
Re: (Score:2)
To be fair, her accepting the PM position shows clearly that she has a completely unrealistic picture of her skills. Hence this idiocy nocely firts the picture. And, again to be fair, she would probably have had a real chance at some higher office in the Trump administration if she was a US citizen.
Re: (Score:2)
All she needs is a small loan of $5M to get that gold card.
Working name (Score:2)
Liz Truth
Re: UK arrests 30 people a day for social media po (Score:2)
I imagine she's hoping to get back into the good graces of the Deep State in order to accomplish this, erm, coup.
What position will she have? (Score:2)
Head of lettuce
Re: (Score:2)
> Head of lettuce
Isn't that false advertising? I'm trying to make tacos, you insensitive clod!
Re: (Score:2)
A celery position.
Re: What position will she have? (Score:2)
I actually laughed, even though I saw that coming blocks away. +1
Spam (Score:3)
If it is precisely as she claims, "uncensorable", then it will quickly fill up with spam, she will claim the "deep state" is flooding the network and shut it down.
Forget prime minister, she will have the record for having the shortest lived social media network.
Re: (Score:2)
> If it is precisely as she claims, "uncensorable",
/b/ is back!
Re: Spam (Score:2)
Seems like a nice low-effort way to get a payoff.
Re: Spam (Score:1)
Exactly. It's hilariously sad that someone who has no idea how social media works is about to start a new social media site.
There will be child porn. Then she'll censor that, and say, "well obviously we need some censorship."
Then it will get flooded with bigotry and swastikas. Then, everyone who isn't a big fan of bigotry and swastikas will leave. Including, of course, her advertisers.
Then she'll understand why censorship is a thing.
Re: Spam (Score:2)
Was thinking same. I think the internet is entering version 3.
Close to 100% scams. Everything is bots. They replace people.
Any thing "free" or unlimited is consumed for spamming somehow. Generated AI content is choking anything of interest to death with un-attributed copies.
You either go viral or fizzle in the next news cycle, so this has less appeal than even the hawk tuah chick and her cryptocoin.
The trump path dont work so well anymore (Score:2)
We have an election coming up in a month in australia and the leader of the opposition Liberal Party (Which is our equivelent to the Republican party, yes its confusing and yes theres a history behind it*) who was trying to run the "I''ll be australias trump" line and turned his lead over a Labor party that has been decidedly anemic into a loss that doesnt SEEM to be recoverable. And while he's been trying to walk it back that hasnt stop idiots in his party getting into the press promising to "Make Australi
Re: The trump path dont work so well anymore (Score:2)
Perhaps, but I wouldn't discount Nigel Farage. He's probably spent more time in Mara del Lago than his own constituency and has stayed out of the Brexit quagmire since it passed.
No doubt he's got Trump holding Zuckerberg 's feet to the fire encouraging him to get the band back together and do a reunion tour playing the populist setlist from their Cambridge Analytica greatest hits album.
Trump is still planning on returning to the UK this September in glory to negotiate the Commonwealth deal. We kno
Well that says something (Score:2)
She's too looney even for twitter.
Don't look now, but their deep state (Score:2)
seems to have lost patience with the "i am a woman because i say so" nonsense.
Might not all be bad.
Uncensorable, but.. (Score:2)
It'll rat you out to immigration if you say something antiwar.
Anonymous platforms with no regulation (Score:2)
Finally, a place where pedophiles and fascists can feel safe and validated by their like-minded peers in a comfortable little echo chamber. This won't backfire at all!
aka 4chan (Score:2)
They will quickly find out that they will censor just like truth social and x
Sounds like a platform (Score:2)
... for word salad.
Lettuce Speak! (Score:4, Funny)
Should be the name of this social media platform
Re: (Score:1)
Leaf it out mate! Why? Kos Liz sez! Caesar the truth! Buy cabbagecoin!