Fancy that! After all these years, our friends at Aggregate Industries blocked us on Twitter this week.
Readers may have noticed that we do use Twitter from time to time. We followed AI back in 2013. On odd occasions since then we’ve been minded to reply to one or two of their tweets; it would be rude not to.
What are we to think? Only recently, AI took to hiding Straitgate’s groundwater levels from us, "in-line with company policy". Now, blocking our Twitter account stops us contacting @AggregateUK and seeing their tweets (although it’s easy to get around the latter). But should we take this as progress? Or has AI just had a hissy fit? Or might it have been something we said? But, why now? The last time we replied to any of AI’s tweets was last month – on climate change:
Brilliant... but hasn’t @AggregateUK made such pledges before?— Straitgate Action Gp (@straitgateactgp) October 18, 2018
2006 “climate change… it’s happening and we have to take action now”
2012 “By 2016 we will reduce process carbon emissions by 20%”
etc etc
And look at your record:https://t.co/TQFVnROG1f#GreenGB #ClimateBreakdown pic.twitter.com/BbHVerrKvn
If @AggregateUK you’re ‘committed to tackling #climatechange’, why are you still pursuing an unnecessary #CO2 polluting 2.5 million-mile HGV haulage scheme across Devon?— Straitgate Action Gp (@straitgateactgp) October 16, 2018
And why does your record on #climateaction and #CO2 look like this? https://t.co/TQFVnRx4CF#greenwashing pic.twitter.com/QblXg1Eotc
Readers can decide for themselves why a corporation with sales in excess of £1 billion pa might take offence to a few tweets from a local action group in East Devon.
Whatever the reason, it's a pity that AI isn't grown up enough to accept the occasional dissenting voice. But that's ok. Many regard blocking on social media as an act of self-preservation. And AI is obviously sensitive to these sorts of things.
But a word of advice for @AggregateUK social media gurus: you can tweet bullshit but you can’t hide it; neither can you stop it from being embedded on this blog.
And by the way, for those following that epic fail at Silverstone, the fallout for AI is still ongoing. Shame.
Rabat is a hero for riding again, just over two months since those ridiculous Silverstone track conditions gave him a triple compound femur fracture. Imagine that: breaking a femur into 4 pieces! Someone should be feeling very ashamed for causing him such an injury— Mat Oxley (@matoxley) November 8, 2018
— Rusty (@topcoalpha) November 16, 2018
