We can't do anything about hired assassins. They're just a tool and sometimes that tool gets misused, but that's not the fault of the assassins or the ninjas who trained them.

What part of “the site generates non consensual sexualised image of women and girls, and sexualised images of children” does our government feel determined to overlook?

Not one coherent argument why it's okay for anyone, but especially supposedly progressive people, to keep posting (socially!) on a platform whose very infrastructure is being used to mass humiliate and abuse women and children

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

How can we fight for a better world when they're making it worse so effortlessly. It's a riptide.

@grok give this man a spine

Funny that this argument hasn't washed with them when children's rights groups are telling them age-gating social media access is a bad idea. But now... I've been saying from the start that age-gating is a cop out on regulating platforms properly. Feeling validated (and furious, frankly).

I can't remember a time when a degradation of values happened at such speed as they're happening now.

One thing about all of this is: if the line is not here, at the mainstream, industrial-level creation of CSAM, where is it? Musk by his own mission statement is out to smash societal norms, cut “empathy” from the West, demolish the EU… What is next down the tracks for him, for X, if this isn’t it?

"If it continues" implies that the current amount of CSAM is fine. That there is a tolerable amount of CSAM and we haven't yet reached the threshold of that. In trying to hedge his bets, he's basically said that a little CSAM every once in a while is fine actually. Christ almighty.

'Local leaders disagree' The BBC really are stupid cunts.

There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users. This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm. That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary

The thing people (and apparently the Taoiseach) somehow refuse to accept about Grok and X is that it isn’t a platform being misused or abused, it is a platform working exactly as intended by its owner. It is meant to be a racist, misogynistic, far right propaganda tool and it is

THE MACHINE - BY DESIGN - IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO REMOVE WOMEN'S CLOTHING WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND TO MAKE CSAM. How are we at 'good sides to it too, you know?'?

The only logical conclusion from this now is that the Government here, and governments around Europe, are absolutely terrified of being dragged into another battle with the richest man in the world who is hellbent on their removal; or with his ally in the White House over regulation.

“The Child Sex Abuse Material Machine might have some good uses too” is a lamentable policy position.

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Every once in a while, a celebrity, like Chris O' Dowd or Richard Ayoade or Jimmy Carr* will inch their heads above the parapet and support Graham Linehan. Why isn't it the job of a journalist to go back to those people and ask them to comment on his supporting ICE shooting a woman in the head?

We need borders otherwise everybody will try to emigrate to the mountain where the dragon's hoard is kept

at this point I think anyone whose position isn't "restrictions on human movement are incompatible with human rights" is just worthless. how can you watch the last ten years and still think any kind of "immigration court" has a reason to exist.

That's small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Why are Tusla acting like they're any other employer pressing through with changes as if they aren't responsible for the lives (and deaths) of children? We cannot tolerate incompetence here.

Something I feel strongly about is that Tusla should be funded, resourced and staffed to higher standards than any other body in the State. If the Principal Care Workers want another two weeks to prepare children for changes then fucking give it to them. www.thejournal.ie/letter-senio...

Gonna puke on this guy one day.

I dunno but I somehow think that our public bodies shouldn't be jumping into bed with fascist supporting billionaires. But maybe that's just me.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

People literally not being able to accept reality because a show didn't do what they want (wants often based on ignoring the source material) is representative of something idk.

Y'all could impeach her but I notice that this is not what's on offer.

the obama admin expanded ICE, the biden admin expanded ICE. not sure just voting blue is helping

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

Every time.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

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And now they’re joking about extrajudicial executions. Absolute ghouls.

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

"Although not the app I just posted this on, obviously..."

Simply vote the baton off your neck!

something something luigi mangione medium.com/@hrnews1/uni...

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Twitter's data handling for Ireland/EU is done by the "X Internet Unlimited Company". Whose office address is on Fenian St in Dublin. A 5min walk from Pearse Street station.

we can't shut down the dick sucking factories what else are we going to do with all those guys trained to suck dick 10 hours a day

This would be a good moment for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that Trump has lost his mind and you don’t have to cover him like he’s normal anymore.

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

Unless you're willing to setup and fund 20,000 individual Truman Shows for unreformable nazis they'll just have to keep their authority and weapons. It would be naive to think otherwise.

it says here you “feared for your life”?

i want to believe the US will not let trump get away with saying that the shooter was actually ran over, and injured, and he is in hospital recovering & it is surprising he survived. none of that is even conceivably a bend of the truth, it's just a completely different reality. beyond the pale

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

The most laughable thing about their propaganda is they want you to believe that the average person is more bloodthirsty than the average ICE agent

been thinking a lot about this moment lately