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Showing posts with label No longer use X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No longer use X. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Simon O'Connor: Control, curate, and censor


The motivations to stop using X - be it media or now the Clerk of New Zealand's parliament - are couched in moral terms by opponents, but it's all really about control, curation, and censorship.


In what I can only describe as a rather poorly considered, and mostly likely politically motivated action - unconsciously or otherwise – the Clerk of New Zealand’s Parliament has decided that the Parliament will no longer use the social media site X (formerly Twitter).