The UK Government has asked the media regulator OFCOM to consider 'all options' related to X including banning access to the site over its AI, Grok, generating sexual images of women and young girls.
Under the Online Safety Act, OFCOM can block the social media platform or fine them tens of millions and are deciding what to do about X's artificial intelligence chatbot digitally undressing people without their consent and they were less than impressed when asked to stop it, X just limited the use of the image function to those who pay a monthly fee with a message that: 'Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers and users can subscribe to unlock these features' which Downing Street called 'insulting' and urged OFCOM to reach there decision in days, not weeks.
Elon Musk, being a complete tool, responded by saying that the UK Government were 'looking for any excuse for censorship' and 'They just want to suppress free speech' and including an AI generated picture of Prime Minister in a bikini which is sure to help his case.
The EU are currently investigating X for breaches of their Digital Services Act and Australia, who recently banned the use of social media for under-16s, are waiting to see the outcome and may impose their own ban but Indonesia banned the AI on Saturday but how easy would it be for the UK to ban X?
A tech expert said that it would be pretty straightforward to do as ISP's would just be ordered to block traffic to X's domains and apps but since America and Musk went full fascist, the problem may be political.
X has approximately 17 million users in the UK and that is a good swathe of users to lose if as hoped, OFCOM does pull the switch but if the EU do the same, that would be a further 102 million users lost so fingers crossed X will become a thing of the past and then we can look at the other Social Media firms who may well have their minds focused by the action.
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