It’s good to be able to see progress being made in the fight to ensure harmful images and unmoderated content is removed from social media, and especially from children. I get weekly begging emails from Andrew Torba, the white supremacist owner of GAB, because his platform is being squeezed. Until recently I could provide a link which is better, because they are long and rambling, but no longer. So here is just a taste :-
“We’ve been here before at Gab. Last year, Ofcom came after us with the same heavy hand, demanding we comply with their censorship regime or face consequences. We refused to bow, standing firm on our commitment to uncensored speech. In retaliation, they targeted our international payment processor, who banned us completely
. For months now, we’ve been unable to accept payments from any international customers, which has hammered our operating revenue. That money keeps the lights on, the servers running, and the legal fights going. We depend on it to survive and keep building.”
On top of that comes the news that X and Musk have yielded to the pressure and will no longer allow Grok to produce sexualised images of real people. Pressure that has come from all over the world, not just the UK:-
Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people in jurisdictions where it is illegal.
www.bbc.co.uk
So as the USA administration becomes ever more authoritarian and dismissive of international rules and organisations it’s encouraging to see resistance is growing. Not just this, but the resistance of citizens in the USA to over reaching control is growing significantly.
The tide is turning. It may take a while to reach our shores but the winds of change can already be felt.
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