People who aren't tuned into this I think aren't aware of the level of nonsense going on:

Can't get the Guards to enforce driving rules or even parking rules so let's give them another counter productive thing that is easier to enforce and enforce on plebs who don't matter instead and will take up more of their time

"X lied to your minister. X lied to your government. Now they're giving two fingers to this parliament..." We know the horrific effect this abuse has on victims of it. That's why there is already legislation to criminalise it. Are there criminal investigations into X themselves or not? #SpéirGhorm

This is what you do.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.

Simon Harris says he wants to put an age restriction on social media use jrnl.ie/6943843 The government that won't stop posting from a website that permits CSAM suddenly cares about children again; I don't think that's very believable.

The same cohort that don't want people to take judicial reviews, have no problem making legal threats to protect their economic interest www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

"We're going to train people how to not think for themselves, and in doing so deny them the opportunity to learn new skills." It's like the medieval church. "Don't bother learning Latin yourself. No need to read the bible; just trust the priests." Trust the Machine. The Machine will provide.

What is the point of Holocaust remembrance if every time the lessons supposedly learned from it are invoked in the defence of modern victims of fascism, the refrain is "how dare you compare this to the Holocaust"

No one should take DOB seriously, particularly since his covid-era pronouncements.

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Man who works in sewer wonders why there's all this shit down here.

Once again the Government demonstrates remarkable ability to achieve things that nobody wanted and many are actively against.

Hilarious and desperate at once.

Presume the Bar Council will get a right of reply to this fact-free rant

Man restricted in bringing cases against ex-partner whose costs over 13 years top €300,000 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

America is incomprehensible.

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”

I seem to remember historians talk about a relentless drumbeat of militarisation over a hundred years ago - I thought it led to something? Probably not important.

At this stage it would be refreshing to see the Taoiseach think *any* reaction to *anything* would be good. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

When someone does something illegal - say, generate CSAM for money - you con't call them before a parliamentary committee. You call the police.

Ursula VDL is so bad.

If someone built a tool allowing strangers to create sexualised images of children, we would shut it down immediately. So why is the government treating X and Grok with kid gloves when their products are causing so much harm?

🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com

Ireland: People need homes but Govt accepts that data centres' need is greater.

This is correct, of course, but it attempts to atomise the systemic problem down to one which can only be addressed by individual victims.

It might be just me, but I don't think public bodies should be posting photographs of children to the 'makes sexual images from photographs of children' website.

So much of the Irish commentariat is just defeatist conformity. www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

I was one of the first 10 people to sign up for Twitter in Ireland. I left over a year ago. It was bad enough then - it’s black and white unacceptable now. There’s no good reason to be on it and, now, no good reason why it’s not being prosecuted.

We could just join in on this. We should join in on this.

I don’t see much reporting on who works for Twitter/X in Ireland.

Weird how all those guys were all about protecting the kids until the time came to protect the kids.

I'm old enough to remember a garda investigation of these paintings...

I’m sorry to keep banging the same point but the flailing from politicians all week trying to avoid looking the (undisputed) truth in the face has me chewing the scenery.

Because Fine Gael were very, very able to make glossy videos about protecting kids online before - and the Government it belongs to has spent the week flustered not able to say exactly why it's not doing anything about real world harms happening on a site with a European HQ here. (2/2)

The story this week is so important, in my view. It's about the morals of Big Tech and billionaires with riches and power beyond limit - but just far broader than that how far are government and authorities here and around the world willing to let them go. (1/2)

To that end, in my personal view, you're not influencing or changing anyone's mind. You're being used as a leg-up. You're helping these accounts grow. Repeat investigations have shown that violent, extreme content and content favouring far-right viewpoints are amplified news.sky.com/story/how-sk...

Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot

All that can be said about this has been said but I feel like a moral country would shut down and kick out a mainstream social media platform that started making and spreading child abuse imagery/IBSA, especially if said country was their tax haven

OK so now they’re consciously trying to make money from the CSAM-generating feature.

The Media Minister says it’s not the app creating images, but individual users. Grok is now #1 on the App Store in Ireland. Day three of X coverage.

Prosecutions now.

X using Grok to produce CSAM by request through its platform is no different to someone taking indecent photos of children by request through a forum or by email In the latter, we would never say 'it's the user breaking the law, not the person taking the photos' - why would it be different for X?

Simon Harris to continue posting on the child sexual abuse image generating site but shaking his head so people know he disagrees

America is not at war with Venezuela! It’s just a Special Military Operation!

For a "militarily but not politically neutral" country which depends on a rules based international order, this is incredibly weak stuff

I also thought this quite funny. Why would anyone think the UK had anything to do with it apart from chronic, Brexit-addled Churchill worshippers living in a fantasy world of UK relevance? Sky News worried about the special relationship.

Do they ever listen to themselves? Essentially pining for the boosterism of Boris, complaining about the unqualified evil of increasing employer costs while speculating as to the many magical benefits that come from increasing income tax. open.spotify.com/episode/44jw...