TMR mayor to pack it in
TMR mayor Philippe Roy, who’s been in the position for 11 years, says he won’t run again ths fall, citing the same issues as Verdun’s Jean-François Parenteau: the toxic hate from social media.
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MarcG 11:01 on 2021-03-23 Permalink
Can’t they just not use it? I still cringe when I hear “The President of X tweeted today that…” – like, don’t you have a communications department for things like that? Maybe I’m just old.
Kate 11:20 on 2021-03-23 Permalink
I think they feel they need to be responsive to the public. For example, this morning someone had a complaint on Facebook about a hole in a sidewalk in Park Ex, and the councillor, Mary Deros (or possibly her assistant, but somebody posting under her name) replied that it would be seen to. People have come to expect this kind of thing.
But the amount of abuse that must come into a town or borough hall these days, for the mayor and all the other elected officials, must be a burden. I follow a few city-oriented groups on Facebook and a lot of Twitter feeds, mostly for the blog’s sake, and there are always folks who hand out criticism, slanders and abuse, most of it not very bright – blaming city officials for things that were decided or done in previous administrations, are unavoidable changes due to worldwide conditions (not just the pandemic, but changes in technology or in the general zeitgeist) or are properly the realm of the province or the feds, all the time. All the time. But the torrent of abuse must take its toll on whoever has to look at it.
Kevin 11:45 on 2021-03-23 Permalink
These are people using their personal pages to communicate with friends and family and getting death threats on a frequent basis.
Honestly, Zuckerberg had no idea what he was creating. He should have read Frankenstein instead of learning to code.
Ephraim 12:02 on 2021-03-23 Permalink
If more people got visits from the RCMP at 6AM in the morning (yes, really, that’s often the time they show up) to discuss death threats online, the more people would just calm the F down and stop with that nonsense. They think it’s a joke, they don’t realize it has repurcussions.