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Think you should confine yourself to working for change on behalf of your constituents…instead of ponticating about matters very obviously above your pay grade

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Take on the social media companies

Write a law, if the platform promotes a piece (so it appears in your timeline despite you not following the poster or someone who RTd the post) then that has been ‘published’ and the platform is held to the same legal standard and obligations and liabilities that any other media company is held to for anything they publish

Enough of this ‘neutral platform’ and ‘we’re just the phone company’ myth that legally protects social media companies from legal liability. You’re the Govt FFS, show some strength and take on the social media companies, they can still promote posts, they’ll just have to employ some humans to vet the posts before they promote them

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Agree totally on the 'neutral platform' thing. They are media companies.

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Are you suggesting that all those you people you list, taxi drivers etc., don't care about the grooming scandal? What do you mean by comparing it with Pizzagate? Are you suggesting that the grooming scandal didn't happen?

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You obviously read the start of the piece as you're asking about the end of the piece. "the sickening child abuse by Pakistani heritage grooming gangs." And no I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting they want action and that they don't need the people who literally voted against implementing the recommendations of the inquiry into child abuse this week while chasing the approval of Musk.

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I read all of the piece and you haven't addressed my point about your comparison of the grooming scandal with Pizzagate.

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Yes I have. I'm not going to share the same sentence again and it's silly to pretend not to have read it.

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