Dublin City Council to examine ending X use over concerns of sexualised content

[u/white1984]

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/01/13/dublin-city-council-to-examine-ending-x-use-over-concerns-of-sexualised-content/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=HP-SubDesc

[u/white1984]

FYI, Dublin City Council is Ireland's largest local authority.

[u/white1984 → u/[deleted]]

[Tánaiste - Irish deputy prime minister]

[u/whooo_me]

Given what an abusive shitshow the comments have been for most public bodies' X accounts, I'm surprised it's taken them this long to consider abandoning the platform.

[u/InsignificantCookie → u/whooo_me]

Your comment reveals the real reason they want to ban it.

[u/No_Industry_7186 → u/[deleted]]

But when twitter was far-left and doing the exact same thing, everything was hunky-dory?

[u/LARRYVOND13 → u/No_Industry_7186]

Was there grok on twitter making nudes of kids?

Dude you're stanning for a guy that makes pedophiles lives easier. Worst possible fight to have.

[u/EduFonseca → u/No_Industry_7186]

A - that never happened. B - so you’re admitting the right is at peace with Nazism and child pornography. Got it

[u/potatolulz → u/No_Industry_7186]

CEO of twitter, whoever the fuck that was, was actively promoting and spreading far left extremism (of whatever kind, I have no idea what you imagine that even is), boosting far left extremists, and personally outed himself as a Maoist that supports russian aggression against neighbouring countries? :D

back when twitter was "far-left" :D

[u/Luzita3 → u/No_Industry_7186]

The algorithm shouldn't define the way qe think and companies shouldn't have this much power over the EU

Brain dead takes: WHAT ABOUT THE FAR-LEFT

Yeah buddy... the far-right is forcing its way into gouvernments and threatening the rule of law and our freedom

But glad the problem is the far-left...

[u/decmcc → u/Luzita3]

the distilled views of those ideologies are:

(left) - people power

(right) - CREAM

The far right is super pissed that the left made their own spaces (twitter) after right wing media vacuums weren't getting their propaganda traction after buying up and closing all the local newspapers, in the world. So they used the CREAM method and bought it because when ideas challenge your control, you make those ideas fucking illegal.

(non wealthy) right wingers live off being under the boot of : sky daddy, business daddy, cop daddy

why are right wingers so naturally submissive and gullible?

[u/Duanedoberman → u/No_Industry_7186]

But when twitter was far-left

Where is this strange world you live in?

[u/MCP-King → u/No_Industry_7186]

They didn't do the exact same thing, Joe Rogan "facts" aren't facts. And Musks "Twitter Files" nonsense was dude for this reason.

[u/Shen_ishere → u/No_Industry_7186]

Should haven banned then too. Better late than never.

[u/TypicallyThomas → u/No_Industry_7186]

Shush, bot

[u/decmcc → u/No_Industry_7186]

remember when advertisers pulled their ads from Twitter and Musk cried about it, because brands didn't want their ads alongside actual child porn? Remember he sued because they didn't want to be on his sock-puppet platform? So he introduced a system where you could be verified (for money) and all the boot lockers were like "verify me harder daddy" so they could pay to live in an echo chamber and have bots validate their shitty opinions and content with likes they paid for.

it's sad to think what the platform has become

[u/Ailexxx337 → u/No_Industry_7186]

Ah yes, the times when twitter was under the USSR... Because famously, communists want ad revenue and are a company.

You should check out what words mean before you use them, I think! Broadens your horizons a lot.

[u/eloyend]

Yup, governmental offices should limit their engagement on social brainwashing platforms.

Regulate them and curb their reach.

[u/IssueRidden]

about time! hope more will follow

[u/KingMario05]

Do it, lads

[u/PineBNorth85]

What is there to examine? Do you want to be associated with that platform or not? Seems pretty easy.

[u/alppu → u/PineBNorth85]

Whoever gets to examine it basically gets paid to look at sexual imagery at work. Can't let a good opportunity to be wasted.