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X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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Re: X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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Post by sunshine-o »

SilverElfin wrote: post #93

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Simply because if you were to ban this type of platform you wouldn't need Musk to "move it towards the far right" because you would already be the very definition of a totalitarian regime.

But whatever zombie government France is running can't "ban" X anyway because it would get them one step closer to the guillotine. Like in the UK or Germany it is a tinderbox cruising on a 10-20% approval rating.

If "French prosecutor" want to find a child abuse case they can check the Macron couple Wikipedia pages.

Re: X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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Post by lokar »

nonethewiser wrote: post #76
robtherobber wrote: post #3

> The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on. I mean, perhaps it's time to completely drop these US-owned, closed-source, algo-driven controversial platforms, and start treating the communication with the public that funds your existence in different terms. The goal should be to reach as many people, of course, but also to ensure that the method and…

>I mean, perhaps it's time to completely drop these US-owned, closed-source, algo-driven controversial platforms I think we are getting very close the the EU's own great firewall. There is currently a sort of identity crisis in the regulation. Big tech companies are breaking the laws left and right. So which is it? - fine harvesting mechanism? Keep as-is. - true user protection? Blacklist.

Or the companies could obey the law

Re: X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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Post by verdverm »

lingrush4 wrote: post #114
SilverElfin wrote: post #93

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Reddit and BlueSky would be the first to go if that were actually the criteria for banning a platform.

Why? Has Reddit given their users tools to generate CSAM and non-consensual sexualized imagery? Bluesky certainly hasn't

Re: X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

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Post by stickfigure »

Honest question: What does it mean to "raid" the offices of a tech company? It's not like they have file cabinets with paper records. Are they just seizing employee workstations?

Seems like you'd want to subpoena source code or gmail history or something like that. Not much interesting in an office these days.

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