Ohio 11th District US House Representative Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown is on Mastodon and today used her platform here to call out the illegal take over of government systems.
https://mastodon.social/@RepShontelBrown/113941036738272968
Follow courageous public servant Hon. Brown and let her know she is welcome here on Public Social Media.
Just wondering why so few of our elected representatives choose to be on Mastodon.
Not sure what is so difficult about this. Public service representatives should be using Public Social Media where they can communicate with their public unfiltered and uncensored by corporate gatekeepers.
Even networks that today may seem transparent are by no means safe from future capture and control. Only Public Social Media is defensible from the oligarch's malevolent reach.
@RepShontelBrown @mastodonmigration Early on, I’d dreamed about a .gov instance. The politicians don’t even have to reply, they could just post things that are already going other places. (As a start). But the White House transition the last few weeks now makes me wonder what a hostile mastodon instance administrator could do.
@obviousdwest @RepShontelBrown @mastodonmigration no doubt thump would have shut that down quickly, silencing every account in the process.