UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/uk-prime-minister-starmer-seeks-support-for-international-x-ban/

Angelo Massaro

@eunews If there were just another platform they could promote instead...

Human after all

@eunews EU needs to follow suit

Lasse Gismo (Friendica Antifa)

@eunews
Und @Bundesregierung wann kommt der Xit?

Lucien

@eunews The EU should do the same, that whole space is cursed. I had 4 tries now to adapt the algorithm to something that interests me and still most of my feed was just US related politics and outright retarded content...

Victoria :neocat_flag_trans::spinny_cat_lesbian:

@eunews@mastodon.social thats positive news

Pino Carafa

@eunews seriously wtf.... countries should just ban that site, period. Why look for "support"? Any country that has any decency should just unilaterally ban it. The momentum will build. Others will follow. Those who don't? Sod 'em.

kNeo gHau

@eunews Weak leaders need others to hold their hand and offer support. Labour need help to block twitter but can implement the privacy disasterous OSA against everyone's wishes. #FuckKierStarmer

Scooter8647 🇺🇦 🇳🇿

@eunews Yes, please!

Miha Markič

@rozeboosje @eunews Yeah, he is scared of making Orange toddler bully angry through space Karen Musk. Coward through and through.

Fenix

@eunews If you want to ban X, just do it. Don't seek support. Do it.

JaimeTaiChi

@eunews Ban Twitter/X, please. and soon.

xs4me2

@eunews lets make this happen! Enough is enough…

Mitch Rose

@eunews

He'll stop talking when Grok provides a pic of him naked with a young boy and it is widely distributed

Gary :party_porg:

@mihamarkic @rozeboosje @eunews I believe the US has already threatened sanctions against the UK if we ban X/twitter. So while it be great to see Starmer take a principled stand, it’s understandable that he’s seeking a coalition of sorts to stand with us.

Pino Carafa

@WiteWulf @mihamarkic @eunews and that is another reason why we should target the people who put "follow us on X" links on their web pages and ask them to close their X accounts and remove those links. They can threaten "sanctions" against the UK and other state actors and scream blue murder about "freedom of speech" over bans, but they won't have a leg to stand on when accounts use that freedom to voluntarily close their accounts and disassociate themselves from the platform.

woollypigs

@eunews go on I double dare you, cause this should have happened years ago, even before Space Karen went full on Nazi salute.

samiamsam

@eunews

shut it down completely

firstprimate

@eunews

He should claim that X supports a Free Palestine. The entire liberal democracy project would issue a ban within an hour.

#FreePalestine #gaza #colonialism

Em :official_verified:

@eunews @bendrath Yes please