Ottawa city council committee vote to stay on X for now [Ottawa Citizen]
Ottawa city council committee vote to stay on X for now [Ottawa Citizen]
A motion to cut ties with the social media site failed at committee, keeping the city accounts active despite concerns over misinformation.
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Why is this so hard to do? 🤦🏾♀️
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Councilors have established followings on Twitter. They don't want to recreate them elsewhere.
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Journalists loooooooove Twitter. Councilors want to be where the journalists are.
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It's a culture war battle.
- Is ass backwards: journalists covering the city have to be where the councillors are, or they have nothing to write about. Our councillors are kind of pathetic, really....
This is less cultural and more existential IMO:
Posting on that site is straight up Anti-Canadian and I will die on this hill.
tell your city councillor
Anybody have the list of which councillors voted for/against?
The article lists those who spoke for/against, but I don't think it has the full list.
The minutes should be available online.
“It failed by a vote of five yeas to seven nays, with Dudas and couns. Glen Gower, Rawlson King, Jeff Leiper, and Shawn Menard voting in favour. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and couns. Matt Luloff, Cathy Curry, Tim Tierney, Riley Brockington, David Brown, and Catherine Kitts voted against the motion”
I will be emailing my councillor, David Brown, and voicing my displeasure.
@Lemmyoutofhere @sbv Brockington almost always disappoints. The odd time he manages to pick the right side and he missed once again.
Oh I messaged them and the mayor.
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