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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

submitted 2 months ago by dwazou@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 161 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Lettuce Speak".

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago

"Lettuce Speak Freely"

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 100 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago

Less than on Scaramouche, I bet.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Gonna be tough to beat mixer. I think she can pull it off.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 90 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every "free speech" platform is, in reality, a "speech I like" platform.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Every “free speech” platform is, in reality, a hate speech platform.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That doesn't really cover it though. I mean look at all the people Musk has banned that have nothing to do with hate speech.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Even more a 'i want to say hateful stuff and not be held accountable for my own stupidity' platform.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago

You'll need to make new account every 49 days

[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 months ago

LettuceConnect

[–] Leorhall@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Truss Social?

[–] Cryan24@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Lettuce social.

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[–] llamatron@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Jesus, this woman is desperate to stretch out her 15 minutes. How sad

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hasn‘t she embarrassed herself enough by now?

[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Haven't you heard? She isn't the type to give up.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Aren't there enough right wing echo bunkers at this point?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Truss social

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[–] briever@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's a moron, always has been - but who is the money behind her?

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

I'm sure if you follow the paper trail enough it'll lead back to either Russia or the Heritage Foundation from the US.

It is yet another grifting disinformation factory.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Good. Spread the fascists out on too many shitty platforms for them to organize well.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

Time to start live streaming a lettuce again to as the traditional Liz Truss standard for how long her projects last...

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 months ago

Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.

[–] passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 months ago

There is already a free speech platform called Gab Social, which follows America's 1st amendment. How could a fool like Liz Truss pretend to care about free speech, when people in her country routinely get the police at their door for posting memes? I'm so sick of free speech being nothing more than a trend or a buzzword used by rich people.

[–] Given2fly@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

True embarrassment to the UK.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oh good, yet another shitty twitter clone.

I don't get why they keep developing separate ones. at some point it has to be quicker to just roll mastodon and defederate from all other instances

[–] inconel@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Truth social is mastodon fork so following the suit is possible. On my masto feed someone posted its link as reference and I was surprised thay my masto client handled it as just like one of the instance

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[–] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 10 points 2 months ago

There we go again. Another Trump bitch trying to please the orange morron. Maybe she can share a bed with Nigel Farage.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fully expecting this to be like Truth Social, based off fediverse software with no attribution and no federation.

[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Truss Social?

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Hey, I've seen this one before.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Feel like I've seen this one before

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Cheese markets

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemme guess, they're gonna launch a private Mastodon server.

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

I hope not.

[–] CrowyTech@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

I think I'll join the platform that the lettuce launches, it'll likely last longer

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Just like every other supposed "free speech" platform, eh? How'd that all work out?

[–] Barking@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

So...we will all be making accounts to post photos of our lettuces?

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Her parents are so disappointed.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

A worthy successor to 4chan.

[–] TemplaerDude@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

This clown cannot get over the fact that she's a complete and utter failure in almost all ways a human being can be. And she's a despicable slug, too.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Stupid cunt.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why I ask ?

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

4chan?

[–] Roundeyegweilo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It wasn't bad enough she crashed the UK's economy? Damn son, crack on with your dumb ass.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, sod off, Liz...

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