One problem here is that there is a great deal resting on the recommendations of the #auspol eSafety Commissioner (or Ofcom in #ukpol), but their powers are still limited in many respects. If they come back & say ‘soz, worried but can’t do much’ then governments will use that do justify inaction.

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

Just shy of a week since I sent my email about Grok to nine Federal reps (House & Senate, out of 17). I wasn’t expecting immediate response because of office closure, but anticipate/expect responses from all by end of the week. Thus far, I have had one response 🧵1/ #auspol #politas

If you’re wondering why cynical, this is why. Will not be surprised to see similar lines in #auspol

Calling to stop health access for children and young people on the basis of consent (they’re wrong btw - Gillick Competency is a thing), but totally fine with CSAM production is prime billionaire. #ukpol

Women: know your limits! Men: continue using an AI to generate non-consensual sexualised and violent images of women and children, and then have the male billionaire owner of said AI defend this practice as ‘free speech’. #politas #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I have just submitted a request to Parliament to have an e-petition calling on the #auspol House of Representatives to condemn X, call on the Australian Government to cease using X for official communications and to ban X (& Grok) until it is demonstrated that the app can’t be used to generate CSAM.

O Canada…🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼

In the UK, peaceful anti-genocide protestors were potentially labelled as terrorists because someone threw some paint on a warplane. Yet somehow, the same government is utterly incapable of dealing with an app deliberately spreading CSAM. #ukpol www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Unfortunately, it’s hard to avoid the cynical view that the reason for coordinated response is so that they all have someone else to blame, when whatever it is they eventually do underwhelms. Nothing is stopping them banning X now to force action. There’s no middle ground for CSAM. #auspol

X should be banned, then Musk can decide whether to come to the table or not, & the UK Government can lay down the conditions for resumption of service (which would hopefully be something all the lines of ‘don’t enable your users to generate and distribute CSAM’). #auspol follow suit

And there we have it; a world where CSAM and disregard for consent are protected under free speech. This is vile. Ban this fucking site #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“By law, I *as Premier* am prevented from directing the Board,” Peter Malinauskas said. “I support *the intent of this legislation*, and have made it clear at every juncture that I *would not seek* to direct the board. PhD thesis on conditional phrasing. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

For all you fans of the ‘organisations reflect the mindset of their leadership’ theory… …or for all of those people that never cottoned on that Palpatine was Darth Sidious the whole time. #auspol

Wait, I just processed this - when reporters said that Grok had said it was limited to paid users only they were being LITERAL? I thought it was misattributed in that they meant that X had issued a media/policy statement through Grok, not that someone just straight up asked the app. JFC. #auspol

Nothing says democracy and freedom like discussing with oil bosses how to exploit a poorer nation you just bombed, while simultaneously threatening to invade another country for oil, & victim-blaming a woman murdered by masked government agents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Does anyone know if users can buy access with crypto? I know they can do things like “tipping” but unsure about access to a system like Grok.

Shout out to #nswpol Labor MP Clayton Barr who has decided to write a post about consent, but still maintains a X account. If you’re going to preach consent you need to principle it too. #auspol

Let's be clear: it takes a village to protect & enable sexual abusers & anyone who continues to have an active account on X - including elected officials, journalists & government agencies - are now part of that village

Unless there is an unfortunate human employee at X called ‘Grok’ no person or thing with that name turned off anything. Someone programmed Grok to stop access for users unless they have paid.

By this rationale, if costs were lowered then it’d be an all clear on invading Greenland?

Earlier this week I wrote an email to #politas Federal reps who still have a presence on X dot com, calling on them to close their account. No significant response yet, although many offices are closed until Monday. I’ll be interested to see what comes back. #auspol

Presumably this is the intent. It’s not just about silencing specific artists/authors/commentators, it’s about silencing an entire potential cohort. It is as anti-truth as anyone can get.

Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard

I nominate Grok to headline the Adelaide Writer’s Festival. I want to see what a cluster of clusterfucks actually looks like outside of the laboratory. #auspol

JFC #auspol

It is worth noting that in barring under-16’s from accessing social media, but taking no action against xAI, the #auspol government is essentially saying that under-16’s accessing social media is more unsafe than allowing a social media site to actively enable & promote CSAM.

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

The implication here is that ‘technology’ (which is not an abstract entity I might add) is deliberately seeking to circumnavigate the law, because it is a choice of developers to make that happen. If that’s the case, then you are clearly dealing with a criminal enterprise; that is national security.

"It's not necessarily the app that's making the images... it's people using the app that's making the images. Making images of that sort is reprehensible..." No, people are asking the app to make the images. IT'S A FEATURE. Not a bug.

Delusional. You can’t counter misinformation by staying on a platform that is sculpted to deliver misinformation. Being on the site is simply furthering that goal, & essentially the BBC are willing to tolerate the deliberate enablement of CSAM for their own purposes. Learnt nothing from Saville.

Paging Mr @albomp.bsky.social #auspol

X is currently the world's most popular child porn site, that anyone can access. Seems bad.

Not one reference in the ToR to firearms, guns or even weapons. The means of the attack and @albomp.bsky.social doesn’t even mention them once. Utterly weak. #auspol

A memo for any proponents of duplicating US healthcare approaches in Australia, or arguing that private medical insurance companies are anything other than profit-driven. #auspol

Look up X on the App Store, scroll down to Report a Problem and fill out the form with this information.

🤔 🙋🏼‍♂️ In that case, I have some questions about Charlottesville, VA.

According to the news, NSW police fatally shot a man during a welfare check. They arrived at 3.30pm, and made entry after 9.30pm. The man attacked officers with a screwdriver, but this only escalated after they entered the property. Does ‘welfare check’ mean something different in NSW? #nswpol

I’ve seen the video. DHS and Trump are lying. It was straight up murder. Utterly, utterly horrifying.

I genuinely suspected that Xai's permissiveness towards requests for sexualised abuse of women (including children of any age) would have been plugged by now in a sort of break-first-then-get-regulated Uber style approach but I think Xai has discovered that they're simply not going to get regulated?

Right now Fascist Twitter enables users to create CSAM, without any meaningful action being taken, & apparently able to convince a whole load of wealthy backers to give it $20bn. Meanwhile, peaceful protest is stifled in NSW. What are we doing? #auspol #nswpol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So, if a group of people were to protest against CSAM being actively enabled by a certain social media app via its human-instructed AI, they won’t be allowed (or, rather, be given ‘Form 1 authorisation’)? #nswpol #auspol

I don't think enough articles are running with the wording "global child sexual abuse magnate Elon Musk".

Curbing free speech because of police cope. Whatevs. TBH though this is hardly surprising from the coppers. What I find more *interesting* is how a government led by the Labor Party, the traditional political representation of the unions, is so at home with this. Times change, am I right? #nswpol

I think they’ll find more than one to be honest.

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