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

Post by pirates » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

cwillu wrote: post #54

Mordisquitos wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do they hope to find, specifically ? Who knows, but maybe the prosecutors have a better awareness of specifics than us HN commenters who have not been involved in the investigation. What may they find, hypothetically? Who knows, but maybe an internal email saying, for instance, 'Management says keep the nude photo functionality, just hide it behind a feature flag' , or maybe 'Great idea to keep a backup of the i…

Or “regulators don't understand the technology; short of turning it off entirely, there's nothing we can do to prevent it entirely, and the costs involved in attempting to reduce it are much greater than the likely fine, especially given that we're likely to receive such a fine anyway.”

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #26

pu_pe wrote: post #11

I suppose those are the offices from SpaceX now that they merged.

So France is raiding offices of US military contractor?

Post by hermanzegerman » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #26

pu_pe wrote: post #11

I suppose those are the offices from SpaceX now that they merged.

So France is raiding offices of US military contractor?

Post by AureliusMA » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

logicchains wrote: post #36

vessenes wrote: post #9

Interesting. This is basically the second enforcement on speech / images that France has done - first was Pavel Durov @ Telegram. He eventually made changes in Telegram's moderation infrastructure and I think was allowed to leave France sometime last year. I don't love heavy-handed enforcement on speech issues, but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation, so I think it's interesting and probably to the ove…

>but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation, so I think it's interesting and probably to the overall good to have a country pushing on these matters very hard Censorship increases homogeneity, because it reduces the amount of ideas and opinions that are allowed to be expressed. The only resilience that comes from restricting people's speech is resilience of the people in power.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

orwin wrote: post #52

antonymoose wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my knowledge Musk asked to go but never actually went. Clinton, however, went a dozen or so times with Epstein on his private jet? Has the latest release changed that narrative?

Yes. He went at least once in 2012, then asked to go again in 2013 and Epstein refused.