At this point, if you know what X has been doing and you’re still on there, you’re condonning the sick images it’s producing and spreading. ESPECIALLY if you’re paying for it. The UK government (where I’m from) need to treat it as it would any other site that produces this sick, harmful material. If this was some no-name site run by some poor, no influence guy from his bedroom, they would have blocked it weeks ago.
UK government starting to think about leaving X
Submitted 3 weeks ago by abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es to fediverse@lemmy.world
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aarRJaay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Its like these officials dont understand the power of this stuff. Like, X is actively working against them, trying to deligitimize established powers at every turn and they don’t seem to feel that’s urgent in any way? Are they just oblivious? What good does X do anyone at all besides Elon?
INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
They need a scan of your ID because you might be a kid, but they’re pondering regarding leaving X
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
was this post supposed to link to something?
I did see this recently for Canada mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689
lots of replies too
atro_city@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Very nice that @Paulatics is pressing the issue. Twitter is basically pornhub with news. Would the government be willing to publish videos on pornhub to "reach a wider audience"? Referring this video). There are also significant audiences on PornHub.
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 3 weeks ago
@Die4Ever Hmm weird . The link didnt come through
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
I wish they had mentioned Mastodon explicitly lol
lorski@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
every legit gov should get off X … it is a security risk.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m no fan of Starmer, even less of the OSA but Grok is literally producing deepfake CSAM and other non consensual images. The UK government, like I would hope the vast majority of people, think that’s appalling and don’t want it to happen. They asked X/Musk to stop Grok producing non consensual deepfakes and all they did was limit its availability to paying subscribers - essentially making the creation of deepfake CSAM a premium service. All Musk really demonstrated is that X can act swiftly, despite the numerous times it said it can’t, but doesn’t want to deprive its paying users of the ability to create CSAM.
It’s totally insane to me that this is being framed, by US Republicans as a free speech issue but I guess a country that can murder a woman driving a car is fucked up in plenty of other ways too.
FukOui@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Honestly, I’m more surprised governments didn’t invoke the “think of the children” argument here and then sanction Shitter
HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Listen! We are thinking. Don’t distract us at this time or we’ll need to start over from the beginning…….. Doh! (Starts thinking from beginning)
foggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone or institution still on X is a joke. Except maybe a journalist. But even still.
When is the UK going to make their official reddit account?
aarRJaay@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
UK government starting to thing about leaving "the CSAM and general AI porn creation site" X.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why are they there in the first place?
palordrolap@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Surely you're not saying they shouldn't have had a Twitter presence?
Or is this more of a "they should have left when Elon took over" kind of thing? In which case, they probably thought that the majority of people who follow(ed) them on there wouldn't have left immediately - not least because there weren't any good alternatives* at the time - so it would have made sense to maintain a presence, which I think is what's actually going on.
* Yes, Mastodon existed, but you've got to think about the average person here. There's a reason the first people on there were academics and tech folks.
rglullis@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Surely you’re not saying they shouldn’t have had a Twitter presence
No, they shouldn’t have a Twitter presence. All public institutions should require full authority over the domain used for mass communication.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
It’s the government, they spend millions of public money in pr, they should have never had a twitter account to begin with and should have used their own tools.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
[deleted]quips@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Mastadon
abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 2 weeks ago
Is this one of thoses cases where a petition might be a starting point?
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Starting to think, huh?
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
don’t worry, they have concepts of a plan
ByteMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s BreXit all over again :o
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Brexit was a Russian op.