So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

indeed mate

I never said it should just be grok, in fact I explicitly said it should be all platforms. Btw, you're wired article never illustrated that other platforms currently have the issue of being used to generate CSAM.

Did I say that it was? I obviously think any parents doing that should be prosecuted along with the owners of the platform. There's nobody saying that's remotely okay.

Well duh: if they had done so, they couldn't post that they had, because that would put them in legal jeopardy. I presume they didn't even try - but if they can't prevent women's pictures from being used (and the article said they couldn't/didn't) then why would they be able to do it with children's pictures? Or do you mean they are only making a pretence of banning such pictures of women, and are just paying lip service?

Twitter has also said that it is not going to allow the use of images of children so is much the same as the other sites now. Only Reddit, AFAICT, has actually banned such images in an effective way.

And yet that's not what happens in practice. These sites operate with near impunity, and yet there's panic over twitter.

Yes your whataboutery says everything.

Remember when all the paedo stories came out of Roblox and the U.K. government banned it?!

Me neither.

There's a real undercurrent of noncery in American Conservatism from the child beauty pageants to child marriages to their overwhelming support for Trump. Naturally, the protect are women and children brigade aren't just silent but fully supportive.

I miss them as well. I wonder if it wasn't something to do with the Second World War and a sense of duty. Here in the UK, we'd have called it One Nation Conservatism though it dates back to Benjamin Disraeli. Now we have Badenoch, Farage and a horde of culture war grifters.

Wondering what your next whatabout will be.

It's actually funny how desperate some men are to dismiss child protection except when it can be exploited to get at something or someone they don't like for entirely different reasons.

Pointing out a pattern is not whataboutery.

Again: child protection issues don't have to be exactly the same to matter - what counts is whether children are being put at risk. Roblox didn't respond appropriately until forced to - but nobody brought the issue to parliament to ban them all the same.

If people only get outraged about one form of abuse, but are "Meh what can you do?" about others that are as harmful or worse, it's worth considering whether there might be other factors at play in their claims to be concerned. And guess what? Elon Musk!

You must have missed where I said that Twitter and/or Musk should of course be sanctioned. More than once even. I'm just cynical as to why this particular instance of abuse is getting a certain section of society so up in arms when worse abuses are met with indifference.

You're not in Westminster though AFAIAA. Are you?

There is a cult of personality around Elon now and that is more dangerous than MAGA as Trump is old and doesn't have an obvious like for like successor.