@vkc and that's also why #ChatControl is just abysmally and morally wrong.
If the government (or any one with sufficient power over our every day life entity) has access to your social connections and messages you can be sure it'll only be a matter of time before they will selectively restrict minorities...
My comments are littered with folks asking "why is it a problem if your blocklist is public on Bluesky?"
I'm glad you asked.
"Who you block" is a reasonable indicator of your personal alignments. If you block TERFs, you're likely trans-friendly, if not trans yourself. If you block white supremacists, you're likely in support of multiculturalism.
If you block government entities, well, you know how this goes.
Do I trust Bluesky to handle that information with care? Hell no.
@vkc and that's also why #ChatControl is just abysmally and morally wrong.
If the government (or any one with sufficient power over our every day life entity) has access to your social connections and messages you can be sure it'll only be a matter of time before they will selectively restrict minorities...
If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
La controversa battaglia legislativa dell'UE su #chatcontrol sta entrando in una fase decisiva. L'intervista a @echo_pbreyer
https://euperspectives.eu/2025/12/breyer-warns-chat-control-decision-moves-into-2026/
Security by Design instead of Surveillance by Default.
That is Parliament’s line on #ChatControl and it is the only one that actually protects children without spying on millions of innocent citizens.
Hold the line in 2026!
Read the full interview: https://euperspectives.eu/chat-control-faces-crunchtime-2026-breyer-warns
La controversa battaglia legislativa dell'UE su #chatcontrol sta entrando in una fase decisiva. L'intervista a @echo_pbreyer
https://euperspectives.eu/2025/12/breyer-warns-chat-control-decision-moves-into-2026/
La controversa battaglia legislativa dell'UE su chatcontrol sta entrando in una fase decisiva. L'intervista a @echo_pbreyer
Il 2026 è l’anno in cui impareremo fino a che punto l’UE è disposta ad arrivare. Il regolamento sugli abusi sessuali sui minori, comunemente noto come #chatcontrol richiederà alle piattaforme online di rilevare, segnalare e rimuovere materiale illegale, ha una storia lunga e controversa.
https://euperspectives.eu/2025/12/breyer-warns-chat-control-decision-moves-into-2026/
Security by Design instead of Surveillance by Default.
That is Parliament’s line on #ChatControl and it is the only one that actually protects children without spying on millions of innocent citizens.
Hold the line in 2026!
Read the full interview: https://euperspectives.eu/chat-control-faces-crunchtime-2026-breyer-warns
If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
The about face of EU governments with respect to CSAM on X is rather disgusting.
" ... 99% of those images are of women and girls. The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address."
#CSAM #X #Twitter #EU Go get 'em!!
Yet Ireland is inactive. Yet Ireland voted for the bad #ChatControl proposal of digital scanning in Europe of everyone's devices to counter CSAM. 🤦♀️
