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Zombie@feddit.uk 3 days agoBut Twitter doesn’t and didn’t fly under the radar. Every politician and journalist and average Joe knows about it. It’s been headline news for days.
They’re taking their sweet time because Musk has power. He has vast amounts of money (richest man in the world, rivaling some countries), he has very close ties with Trump and the American government, and controls other services which the UK has contracts with (e.g. Starlink). Not because that’s how Ofcom works. Ofcom can and has responded quickly to laws in the past. What sort of bullshit paedo apoligism is that argument?
You’re making excuses for CSAM distributed by the richest man in the world, why?
The rule of law is not being applied the same to Twitter as it would any other website. My quote stands.
Flying under the radar is not the same as being known and ignored. Flying under the radar explicitly means it’s unknown. If the state were made aware of these sites they would act.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 days ago
You’re just repeating your assertion that the time taken for Ofcom to act against X is due to improper influence but haven’t given any evidence. What examples are you thinking of where Ofcom has acted quickly? This controversy has, I believe, been going on for three weeks, prominently only for one.
The Online Safety Act specifies time limits for responses from services, and those time limits themselves vary from a week to several months. Ofcom also publishes updates on its investigations and the one I’m familiar with - Imgur - took months to do anything.
Take me through your line of reasoning here: I don’t think Ofcom is giving Twitter special treatment; ???; therefore I’m making excuses for CSAM? Please do fill in the missing steps.