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The thing I hate about this is trying to understand what the better option is. At this point I'd be happy to see twitter banned in this country - we all know it's full of hateful and violent rhetoric - but then you run the risk of all the assholes in that particular square getting out and further infecting other sites which aren't as vitriolic.
How do you go about conquering shit like this?
Eye watering fines for the company (say 25% of global turnover) and the ceo's of said companies should be held personally liable and receive eye watering fines (25% of net worth). Would help plug the hole in the budget the Tories left too.
25% of turnover would be painful… 25% of profit and we’d have to pay them!
It should always be net, never gross, because these companies never make any profit. They exist as advertisers and platform pushes of whatever backer they currently have. Although in Musk's case it exists mostly as an ego project now.
It should be revenue, not profit.
I don't like the idea of banning things but xitter is on thin ice. Not much more a reasonable govt can do after a certain point.
In terms of actually resolving the underlying issues my opinion is that we need to fix stalled growth in the economy to address the tensions. It seems to me that the xenophobia is being fuelled by people feeling like the pie is getting smaller so more immigrants mean that their already small slice will get smaller. Mental health services and interventions need to get better too but that is also related to resources.