@joemcl they are literally just talking about setting up a European-owned propaganda entity instead of an American-owned propaganda entity
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having what is effectively a "generate porn of this person and send it to them" button under every selfie or photo anyone posts was a very bad idea and crosses a line that a very, very large number of people are uncomfortable with. it's more an issue with image generators in general than with twitter specifically but it should be obvious to see why making it so in-your-face would draw significantly more attention to this already very controversial topic. grok makes targeted sexual harassment effortless.
@Alex @sun @joemcl I still find it to be an absolute joke to go nuclear over
Years of specific propaganda? Censorship? Facebook knowingly mindfucking people with algorithms, instagram knowing it was awful for young girl, etc. Nahhhhh, it's all good
But putting people in a bikini? RED FUCKING ALERT
This is stupid
Years of specific propaganda? Censorship? Facebook knowingly mindfucking people with algorithms, instagram knowing it was awful for young girl, etc. Nahhhhh, it's all good
But putting people in a bikini? RED FUCKING ALERT
This is stupid
The average person isn't going to see that. They aren't personally directly effected by any of that in their day to day lives, as far as they can tell. Minor inconveniences at worst for a lot of people. You feel cute and post a selfie, and suddenly get flooded with AI generated porn of yourself? You post a pic of your kids and suddenly get flooded with dozens of indecent images of them? That's something the average person is directly seeing and which directly involves them. It's targeted at them, specifically, in a way that is going to cause an immediate response. It's not some vague concept that someone somewhere is being censored for something or other, it's porn of them being sent at them whenever they post any pictures of themselves. It drags the majority of people who just want to go about their day and don't want to care about any of these things into it and forces them to care.
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@Alex @sun @joemcl ???
The UK has their current government BECAUSE they didn't vote because no matter what they vote for they won't get what they want
Once again, the government has not gave a single shit about the people, no matter who's voted in. It's a power play, the EU and co has fucking hated the American social medias for forever and instead of attempting fuck it over by actually legislating over the bad, this is what they go insane over, when they can't even clean up their crap locally?
The UK has their current government BECAUSE they didn't vote because no matter what they vote for they won't get what they want
Once again, the government has not gave a single shit about the people, no matter who's voted in. It's a power play, the EU and co has fucking hated the American social medias for forever and instead of attempting fuck it over by actually legislating over the bad, this is what they go insane over, when they can't even clean up their crap locally?
I agree with you but I'm responding more to the comment about the grok scandal being absurd. If you can't see why that pisses off normies and more serious but abstracted issues like censorship doesn't, and why that outrage is a much easier option for governments to latch onto to justify their agendas, idk what to tell you
@Alex @sun @joemcl well yeah, obviously, it's the government going after the easiest target they can latch on. But my point is that you're entirely mistaken about it being done "for the people", it's the EU attempted censorship power play. Not that it's bad to stop grok from doing it, but they're attempting to strong arm the whole thing into their grasp. That's the actual attempt here
There's probably some miscommunication going on here, I 100% believe this isn't being done for the people and is just an agreeable justification for them to achieve a goal they've long been after. I just also believe the grok thing has caused a genuine scandal that people are actually upset about.
@Alex @sun @joemcl Alright then, we agree I guess
As for it being a huge scandal that people actually care about, I'm not sure I agree. The news media in general are hand in hand with the gov and/or they will run the most sensationalist juicy shit they can get their hand on, often leading to "this is a big outrage" being mostly fabricated and engineered to a degree, because the press shouldn't actually be equalled to "the people"
As for it being a huge scandal that people actually care about, I'm not sure I agree. The news media in general are hand in hand with the gov and/or they will run the most sensationalist juicy shit they can get their hand on, often leading to "this is a big outrage" being mostly fabricated and engineered to a degree, because the press shouldn't actually be equalled to "the people"
I'm confused. Is Alex conflating a bikini with porn? 🤔