Except when you're criticising Sunak or Braverman obviously.

ah yes, and Tory PM's have never been savaged by the media and just about everybody else.

so, as a lefty, do you favour de-platforming speakers that you disagree with ?

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

How do they get their thoughts out there then. Wait for an invite to TV or newsprint.
This is 2023 if you hadn’t noticed.

I appreciate all the attention boys. Truth is, I’m an AI bot sent here from the future to try to regulate these boards and add a bit of bantz and lightness to the threads.

Interesting.

Problem is the genie is well and truly out of the bottle now. And how would you enforce it?

So for example the mechanisms by which specific adverts are used to target potential voters? Would you envisage that kind of data harvesting/exploiting was still allowed?

Because given the advances in AI and deep fakes, I suspect something is going to have to give soon.

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Not really sure how you would enforce it to be honest. I only mentioned it as something that doesn’t quite sit right with me. I think it opens us up to populism and culture wars and can also lead to unfair advantages and create cult like following of certain politicians, as we have seen with Trump in the States and Boris here in the UK to a lesser extent. We get politicians who trade on having a personality but are actually terrible at politics. And the electorate who are often not sound of mind enough to realise this, and will vote them in without realising it is the worst possible thing that they could do for themselves and the country in which they call home.
I just think it opens us up to the worst possible people at a time when we need strong leadership and smart decision making. We have to get past personality politics in this country if we want to move forward and start to repair some of the damage that has happened over the past few years.
One of the best PM’s in my lifetime was John Major. And unremarkable character, but a decent PM. He just got on with the job and worked very hard to deliver for the country. We need more politicians like him again instead of the current crop of disaster capitalists who are running this country into the ground with their devisive brand of politics and Twitter spat b*llocks.

You also raise a very good point about the deep fake and AI stuff. We need to get on top of this all before it get way out of hand, and a good way to start would be by taking politics, or politicians away from social media.