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

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There's no tool, technological or legal, to block/ban a website EU-wide.

They banned Russia Today EU-wide.

What's your source for this? I can't find anything online. They banned doing business with the organization, not access to the website.

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

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As far as I can tell from the reporting: * They exchanged various emails between 2012 and 2014 about Elon visiting the island * They made plans for Elon to visit the island * We don't know if Elon actually followed through on those plans and he denies it I think it's premature to say he didn't go, and the latest batches of emails directly contradict the claim he wasn't ever invited. See https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/3…

Unless I'm mistaken reading this, it looks like they never set a date and this this is the prior conversation to him trying to invite himself over and being told no. I don't see any plans in this article, just Epstein saying he'll send a heli and then never setting a date or making actual plans. I feel like if there's no evidence he went, Elon denies it, and Elon was a big supporter of releasing the files then it wou…

> In a December 2013 email, Musk again wrote to Epstein saying, “Christmas and New Year’s, will be in the BVI /St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

> “I will send heli for you,” Epstein responded, with Musk writing back, “Thanks.”

> In a follow-up email on Dec. 25, Musk said, “Actually, I could fly back early on the 3rd. We will be in St Bart’s.” He asked if he and Riley should head to the island the day before.

> CNBC hasn’t confirmed whether Musk ever visited the Island, though Musk has denied ever traveling there.

> Musk didn’t respond to a request for comment.

To me “I will send heli for you” does not mean "being told no".

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

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At some point in the near future I see a day where our work laptops are nothing more than a full screen streaming video to a different computer that is housed in a country that has no data extradition treaties and is business friendly. Because that country and the businesses that support that are going to get RICH from such a service.

Sealand,!!!!!!

Exactly, but that's outdated, what's the current equivalent?

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

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Can your computer hold a database with trillions of tweets and sensitive user information? FFS

Are they after a database of trillions of tweets and sensitive user information? Is that all that could possibly progress the case?

Isn't the algorithm published monthly on GitHub since a couple of weeks ago? You think they are gonna find a commit message "feat(racism): improve antisemitism capabilities".

Not sure what they're gonna prove with this.

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

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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.”

Wouldn't surprise me, but they would have to be very incompetent to say that outside of attorney-client privledge convo. Otoh it is musk.

“For certain tax and criminal investigations, French law operates a distinction between legal advice privilege and litigation privilege. While litigation privilege is always protected, legal advice privilege is not protected when (i) the investigation pertains to tax fraud, corruption, influence peddling, terrorism financing and money laundering offenses, and (ii) the legal opinions, correspondence or exhibits that are in possession of, or were communicated by, the lawyer or the client were used for committing or facilitating the commission of said offenses. This exception applies to materials that were not prepared in the context of a litigation proceeding and is strictly controlled; a judge makes the final determination as to which materials can be disclosed.”

Seems like it's not a literal get-out-of-jail-free in france.

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

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fighter jets ARE a threat of violence, and it is widely understood and acknowledged. Again: the threat is so clear that you rarely have to execute on it.

>fighter jets ARE a threat of violence, and it is widely understood and acknowledged. That's not a credible threat because there's approximately 0% chance France would actually follow through with it. Not even Trump would resort to murder to get rid of his domestic adversaries. As we seen the fed, the best he could muster are some spurious prosecutions. France murdering someone would put them on par with Russia or In…

Okay, you can't imagine anyone following through on this threat. Well, that's a failure of your imagination.

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

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Not really, they put a shit ton of effort in to make sure you can't create any kind of nude/suggestive pictures of anyone. I imagine they have strict controls on making images of children, but I don't feel inclined to find out.

you understand that the brush tool in photoshop exists?
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