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I would do it myself but I don't Actually use X.

This. My country is unrecognizable now, thanks to X unleashing hordes of Russian agitator propagandists pretending to be British, making everyone afraid, but when Elon decided to get involved, real people actually got hurt and people's homes destroyed. And he took that as licence to interfere more.

Disturbing levels of deep fakes

They know it, too, and the role of any left of extreme right media and person left of extreme right should be to bombard the message that this doesnt constitute freedom of speech encroachment or censorship, because thats what they are immediately gonna go with

When Brazil banned Twitter for a month Musk charged our supreme court and tried to incite a coup himself. Brazil is almost as divided as the US, but for those in the democracy side the message was clear, the man is pure greed and have no regards for anyone else.

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It's not just deep fake porn. I mean, that alone is bad enough, but it's also CSAM which is just so so much worse.

I vaguely remember when Twitter was where you could find like and liberal minds. Then Musk took over and the negatives and the negativity made it unbearable. Trolls everywhere. Ugliness flourished. I don’t miss X at all.

Genius move, they can't make fun of him on twitter if it's banned in every country

it is a force for global destabilization. plain and simple. we should treat it as such.

I think this is right, but particularly in Europe they're facing an almost impossible set of choices. What do you do if you're facing a hostile administration fully willing to blackmail you with essential security needs you won't be able to back-fill for years?

Basically, the only way to deal with this is to regulate the specific algorithms and types of data that are fed into them. If I had my way, everything would be regulated to be chronological. Everything else is too easy to abuse, at least chronological gives a chance at moderation.

And he's such a creepy dork! Point the spotlight and cameras at him, and he'll convict himself.

Maybe a state governor looking to jump start their 2028 run could ban the state authorities for using it. As a treat.

It’s the new town square! But like, the town square has a “Nazis welcome” sign at every entrance, and there’s a giant robot in the middle that paints photorealistic pictures of children or your favorite celebrities having sex on demand, and you might get banned if you mock the private owner of it.

He is also the one that essentially bought an election seemingly specifically so that he could kneecap US regulatory bodies that are in charge of things like...reigning in AI corps and stopping him from disseminating CSAM.

Frankly, we in the US ought to be sanctioned. We're acting like a pariah state and Trump can learn what an isolationist economy is really like.

"Why did you ban X from us??" "It was making nude images of children" Theres no real rebuttal to that on the news, they just have to actually take the step

And a LOT of foreign nations are in a position where they've pretty much written off the US anyway, (Trump will always pick Putin over them,) so why not pull the trigger?

I agree with banning certain platform. the problem is there are already bills in congress that are couched in protection of children that require uploading govt issued ID to even go in the internet or onto any social sites. So as to completely destroy anonymity and free expression.

Wait, what? No - you can't "but won't someone think of the children" for an issue that ACTUALLY endangers children. Pretty sure that's only to be used disingenuously to further agendas that restrict rights.

Should be very easy, unless you are a Nazi prude, I guess

It would be so simple to start by countries banning X until grok is removed. Grok doesn't need to be a feature. Machine output is not human speech either, so no free speech legal issue either.

Perhaps he can break new ground by having X become the first app to be banned by NATO or UN.

How exactly is a 'ban on X' meant to work? Turkish and Russian attempts to do similar blocks have been failures. Ineffective due to VPNs or wildly overblocking using DPI at ISPs. So how would a government attempt to block X? What is being proposed here in concrete terms?