While I don't use FB, I absolutely, 100% would not use any government social networks, out of both principal and pragmatism, period.
Money would be better spent on building statues of Ed Miliband. And that's saying something.
Money would be better spent on building statues of Ed Miliband. And that's saying something.
I might be in the minority to think this is a great idea, if it were basically "pump government money into developing and hosting instances of the Fediverse (GNU Social, Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Pleroma) AND building those data centers in collaboration with the Open Compute Project (Facebook is publishing the blueprint on how to build a facebook datacenter, take advantage of it.)
There is a partial critique of the post-1945 wave of nationalisation in John McDonnell's speeches where he recognises that they were undemocratic and far too centralised and inefficient. There was a conference on this in London this year.
Would you accept wages paid to you in Venezuela's cryptocurrency?
"Competition" appears to have provided benefit for shareholders and no one else in those industries. It has provided opportunity to expand for one or two other nation's nationalised utilities to benefit their consumers.
I've not read the proposal. But some things, like telephone common carriers, ISPs should be regulated to the gills. Do I trust British Telecom Open Reach now they've been privatised? No, not really, but that's the way natural monopolies work. I don't trust them any more or less than I would have done pre privatisation.
I think the real problem is that current models of social media are dreadful, although I don't know of anything better.
Take the childrens television the BBC produces - extremely high quality and very low cost. Raises the bar for all other (private) childrens television production.
Radio live/archived streams are available with no login in a web browser still I believe?
I think one of the more constant features of UK politics has been every single government criticising the BBC.
[0] One very specific aspect has been greyed. The Tory party, who supposedly should care more for independence, required the BBC to take on funding of the World Service. Previously Foreign Office funded, now in the budget of the BBC.