Social Media Madness

Social Media

            Marble Falls       Exhausted from a long drive, sitting next to mi companera for assistance, I set about trying to join Bluesky with mixed feelings.  I’m not really a Twitter X guy.  Yeah, in automation mode, ACORN’s comms guy shares the Chief Organizer’s Report on that platform, but at a personal level I dropped …

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Dealing with SLAPP Suits, Euro-Style

ACORN International Social Media

New Orleans      SLAPP or Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation lawsuits are not a new corporate tactic to stop various campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and membership organizations from exercising their right and duty to protest against adverse corporate practices and developments.  Such suits have been filed in the United States for decades at this point.  …

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Social Media and Free Speech

Social Media

            New Orleans       I don’t use TikTok, but I know it’s hot.  I’ve watched one video that one of our nephew’s children put together.  It was cute.  Supposedly, it was a riff on something else, but I didn’t get the cultural connection, so I was clueless. Here’s what I know from boomerville.  For all …

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