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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform
(www.thelondoneconomic.com)
"Lettuce Speak".
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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"Lettuce Speak Freely"
Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?
Less than on Scaramouche, I bet.
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Every "free speech" platform is, in reality, a "speech I like" platform.
Every “free speech” platform is, in reality, a hate speech platform.
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.
Even more a 'i want to say hateful stuff and not be held accountable for my own stupidity' platform.
You'll need to make new account every 49 days
LettuceConnect
Jesus, this woman is desperate to stretch out her 15 minutes. How sad
Hasn‘t she embarrassed herself enough by now?
Haven't you heard? She isn't the type to give up.
So, do you guys think that her social media platform will last longer or less than a piece of lettuce?
A lettuce probably has more leaves than her platform will have users.
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Aren't there enough right wing echo bunkers at this point?
She's a moron, always has been - but who is the money behind her?
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.
Good. Spread the fascists out on too many shitty platforms for them to organize well.
Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.
Time to start live streaming a lettuce again to as the traditional Liz Truss standard for how long her projects last...
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.
So it will shut down in a week as well?
True embarrassment to the UK.
Fully expecting this to be like Truth Social, based off fediverse software with no attribution and no federation.
Feel like I've seen this one before
Hey, I've seen this one before.
There we go again. Another Trump bitch trying to please the orange morron. Maybe she can share a bed with Nigel Farage.
Another badly executed neoliberal neocon shithole predicated on open-source tech and standards yay!
She even talks like a Trump. Is it contagious?
Something is, since conservatives appear to be the same organization operating globally now.
But I really think they're opportunists mostly just dumbly copy catting each other with se exceptions.
Mind virus.
Cheese markets
You mean colossal failure Liz truss who couldn't outlast a head of lettuce?
Just like every other supposed "free speech" platform, eh? How'd that all work out?
Her parents are so disappointed.
I remember Lizz Truss. For a short time I could winge about the conservative party to cab drivers without any fear that they would agree with them.
One of the good things about the UK is Trump style behaviour does not work here for long. Unfortunately it's more of an objection to incompetence than bigotry but that's life
Lemme guess, they're gonna launch a private Mastodon server.
So...we will all be making accounts to post photos of our lettuces?
A worthy successor to 4chan.
Stupid cunt.
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.
I sincerely hope this is the last time I read about Liz Truss and she just disappears into the sands of history.
Last I checked the UK has no guarantees of free speech.
They do for the freedom of expression, as do most EU countries:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
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