briefly returning to this hellsite because this discourse is basically a perfect microcosm of why microblogging should be destroyed. 5% of the people angry are angry for valid reasons, and 95% of people are angry over a set of facts that can be disproven with *one* google search.
the model of the site formerly known as twitter, bluesky, mastodon, threads etc is basically the perfect misinformation machine. arguably other social media platforms have similar issues, but my god is it 1000x worse here.
That is very bad luck. To make a transphobic comment on the one day in recorded history the British media and political class have decided they actually don't like transphobia.
Bullshit. There's no evidence 3 million toothbrushes performed a DDoS.
What the f*** is wrong with you people???? There are no details, like who is the target of the DDoS? what was the brand of toothbrushes? how are they connected to the Internet (hint: they aren't, they are Bluetooth)?
All we have is somebody from a security company making vague, unsubstantiated claims, more along the lines that "this is something that could happen" rather standing behind the claim that it actually did happen, that are in turn misinterpreted by a journalist. The entire story is crap.
https://t.co/Ha33iDuepU
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.