To those of you who work with Children & Young people but remain on Twitter.
Please read this
By deleting your Twitter account you send a clear message to the Twitter CEO and board you do not tolerate this (and everything else that is going on) and you are removing your account as a strong protest..
By remaining ON Twitter in June 2023 and claiming a commitment to safeguarding, you are either complicit or plain stupid, you clearly support it and you should NOT be on twitter while claiming you are committed to safeguarding children.
The 2nd statement may not be strictly true, however it could be misconstrued as such.
So much for Keeping children safe in education suggesting social media checks as part of pre-employment checks. Why would you employ someone or trust a school who remains on this cesspit with the welfare of anyone, especially children and young people.
Back in November 2022, some of us (including myself ) could see this coming, we had warnings on Mastodon about what was happening, people moving in a mass exodus, the fact there were massive lay off's, esp of moderators or technicians was a red flag, the fact Nazi's, racists, homophobes, transphobes and others are allowed back on should be a red flag. You can't tell me you are not aware of what has / is going on.
Roll on the online safety bill and lets hope the regulator starts with a very hard lined, robust, no nonsense attitude and starts to haul these Big tech CEOs in to court and hits them with the full weight of the law.
Fediverse may not be perfect, but at least we acknowledge problems and have tools & moderation in place to deal with bad actors and accounts. Community do a better job than huge multi million dollar companies because we CARE and put people before profits.