Has social media become too toxic?

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What are your thoughts on X (formerly Twitter) since Elon Musk’s takeover? Has it become too toxic. 20 million people have signed up for rival BlueSky. What are your thoughts on social media?

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00:00Social media, you're not allowed to speak your mind.

00:02As soon as you speak your mind, you get shut down and switched off.

00:05Generally, some of the stuff on...

00:08It's supposed to be freedom of speech,

00:09but it's freedom to pick on people, I think.

00:12Yeah, and it is.

00:14It's terrible for picking on certain people and everything.

00:18You have to be careful with...

00:20because there could be scammers.

00:21What they were supposed to have done was

00:24let everybody speak their own mind and nobody likes that any more.

00:27You can't speak your own mind, you have to be careful.

00:30You have to be very patient and very politically correct

00:33with what you say.

00:34You're not allowed to speak your mind again.

00:36Everybody's policing everybody and all that.

00:38I tried to sell them something and this guy tried to scam me,

00:41scamming me, asking me to send money over to put PayPal.

00:45It's hard to know the reason for it,

00:47but it's got to be the content is just getting maybe a bit nasty

00:51and bullying me even sometimes.

00:54If you see something online you don't like, just go away,

00:56just leave it. You don't have to stay there looking at it.

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