Aka people having opinions
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Agreed, everyone should agree with me no questions asked! 
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You give Australians a bad name.
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Love!
The lyrics are You give love a bad name. Geez
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I want it banned. The sooner we unlatch from that teat, we might be able to shift our source of information from elsewhere as a society rather than from a Nazi’s plaything.
It would be strange to see the spread of bans across Reddit and yet we won’t do it on a bloody Liverpool forum.
Fuck it off pronto.
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I was already in favour of it when the thread started. Some sound arguments were made against it, especially by Livvy and Magnus. So, we kept it for the time being.
The problem is that by maintaining it, we are indirectly associated to Musk’s right-wing shithousery, and thus, supporting him. Since September 2024, a lot has happened, and not for the better. From being an unsavoury cesspit, X has become a direct platform for extreme-right ideology, helped by the algorhythms and Musks personal engagement against democracy.
Also, I’ve experienced the problem that at times, I involuntarily click on links to X when a post cites something from there, and thus again, I support it, despite of me not wanting to read a line of what is there.
On the other hand, Livvy and Magnus are progressively using other sources of information, ie. Bluesky. So, I again ask the question: can we get rid of it already? I’m firmly in favour of it.
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There’s no debate about Musk being a stain on humanity—no one is defending him. I find both him and his views distasteful. I absolutely encourage using other platforms where possible.
That said, as much as I (and probably most of the forum) despised Rupert Murdoch, we still watched Sky Sports or listened to TalkSport. I could just as easily highlight TikTok, Facebook, PayPal, Tesla, solar panels, Starlink, or the satellites SpaceX put into orbit—many of which our members use without issue.
I believe this community is adult enough to transition away from Twitter where possible. But censorship isn’t the answer. Because it’s not Musk we’d be censoring—it’s the global users of the platform. Many of them are respected reporters, heads of state, or just some unlucky bugger caught in the middle of a war or natural disaster. Whether we like it or not Twitter is the main global platform for news.
On TAN, we don’t see the cesspool of right-wing garbage that Twitter amplifies. We don’t give Musk any money from previews. What we do have is a handful of quality posters providing quality content. Yes, it’s fucking annoying when the forum jumps around due to Twitter links, but that’s a separate issue (and will happen with BlueSky).
I’m all for reducing reliance on Twitter, but pretending it doesn’t exist doesn’t help. Twitter might be rotten, but the people sharing real news, real experiences, and real insights aren’t. That’s what matters—and that’s what we engage with on TAN
We are a football forum. But I would argue that the likes of our Ukraine and Palestine threads are as good as anywhere on the internet. Thats driven by curated content much of which from twitter. I am resistant to give that up because a dick owns the news platform.
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Explanation accepted.
Until next week
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Has anyone asked LFC when they will finally stop using X and switch to Bluesky? As long as that doesn’t happen and there is only one fake account that distributes club news privately on Bluesky, I think it is dubious to argue with this.
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I don’t agree with it being dubious, but I do agree that the club is way past due in switching to Bluesky.
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Where’s the “magnificent display of common sense” emoji when you need it?
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I think Fake accounts are dubious, no matter the platform. I would never use it as a source.
There are simply not enough reputable sources on Bluesky so far. But who knows, maybe that will change at some point. Until then, unfortunately, it is as it is.
My apologies, I thought you were saying that it’s dubious to argue that TAN should ban that Xesspit?
I think you believe that people in general are a lot more “adult” than they actually are. We have grown adults on here sharing content from white supremacist sources without even checking the source, and people just reposting crap that they saw on social media without even verifying if it’s true or not. People reposting stuff from known Russian propagandist sites. People reposting things from sockpuppet accounts.
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I use Bluesky when I know I can trust the source, maybe it’s my English but I’m tired of explaining myself here over and over again, I’m already trying to use other sources if possible. However, unfortunately this is not always possible. But it’s starting to really annoy me here. I’m not here to please everyone. And I’m really starting to lose interest in getting involved here any further.
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I really don’t think it’s anything personal against you Livvy
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I think that “beeing one of the main culprits” is totally personal. Because that’s how it was and is presented here. And quite honestly, I’m fed up with it.
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