So this is “Austrailia Broadcasting Corporation”, not the ABC (American broadcasting Company) which I am familiar with in the US. I presume they share no more than an acronym.
Correct
I hope more broadcasters will follow the BBC’s example and start running their own Mastodon servers.
It would be nice if the BBC instance had more accounts, like for breaking news, though. I know they’re just testing the waters, but they need to try having accounts posting things folks are the most interested in.
I wish they had region or language specific accounts (bbc world service, bbc spanish, french, russian, etc.).
There will only be four remaining official ABC accounts: for news, sport, Chinese and the master ABC Australia account.
Somebody let me know when they actually leave twitter. This is a bullshit half measure.
Good move by ABC, but they need to go further.
STOP USING TWEETS ON QANDA THEN! After what happened with Stan Grant ABC really need to evaluate how they use social media sites like Twitter. They needed to do this the moment Stan raised it as an issue and had to step away from his role.
They have stopped. It’s in the article.
Not because of the racism that Stan identified though. They’re okay with drawing a line around ‘toxic behaviour’ but not the racism, ableism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia that they have platformed for years through their use of tweets on QandA.They should have immediately responded to Stan’s experience with an assessment of how their engagement with social media enabled the racist abuse directed at Stan. The ABC has a terrible problem with racism in their own institution and have not anything to address or remedy this. Stan is not the only person who has drawn attention to this and the ABC regularly receives complaints about people like Paul Barry while continuing to give them a platform.
We want freedom of speech!
corporations can’t be on a platform where detractors can be on an equal level as them. they just want to make money and influence elections not debate about it.
“Abuse” is not “debate”.
Boo hoo! a giant corporate outlet owned by disney is being bullied! ABC leaving twitter is a good thing.
ABC as in Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the public broadcaster.
