"If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward in . . ."

Does the US congress not have a better hill to die on?

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We don't actually really have the ability to hard block stuff. ISPs can be subject to court orders individually but the costs of implementation are bourne by the third-party or government so they don't like doing it. Best case you get the top 5 ISPs to block it because they already have the infrastructure in place, the smaller ones don't though.

As I'm from - and in - the UK, let's have a look at this shall we? Both the tweet and the one to which it's responding...

> There are always technical bugs during the early phases of new technology, especially AI, and those issues are typically addressed quickly.

But this is precisely the point - they haven't been addressed quickly, they've been excused and generally ignored/used to troll. I believe they've now been moved behind a paywall, which is certainly one way to communicate how you feel about CSAM material.

> Let’s be clear: this is not about technical compliance. This is a political war against @elonmusk and free speech—nothing more.

Hardly - X has acted without any real consequence here for ages, despite turning into an absolute cesspit. MPs, Ministers, government departments - many are still using it despite everything. That aside, that a different country has slightly different views on free speech than (part of) your own country is not, in any way, a crime. Most nations have some speech which is restricted, at least in some circumstances, the US is no exception to this.

Now, onto the "inspiration"...

> The UK jails people for calling rapists "pigs."

Does it? Show me. Show me the case where that has happened. Our legal rulings are public.

> ...various other unhinged lunacy until...

> Starmer is just punishing a platform that won't bend the knee.

Do these people have the concept of irony surgically extracted? Everything Trump does is generally about punishing people that won't bend the knee/pay him/hand over a chunk of their Kingdom. "Country actually enforces own law" shouldn't really be a headline, but I guess for these people it is now...

Note that the recent controversy is about Grok, not Twitter. The UK wants to ban generative image models without censorship.

Grok has had censorship functions before. But someone found a week or so ago they can ask Grok to redraw clothes as bikinis. Not sure if this was a real SNAFU, not intentional.