Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Pixie]

The lack of self awareness is baffling

[lindsaywhit2]

...and staggering.

[kittylady]

And he just keeps going! 

[kittylady]

Musk has also said in the past that Diddler was one of the investors when he bought Twitter.

[funky]

To what gods does one have to pray that this is going to be his downfall?

[kittylady]

Oct 4, 2024 11:48:56 GMT funky said:

To what gods does one have to pray that this is going to be his downfall?

It's estimated that there have been between 8,000 and 12,000 recorded as being worshipped throughout human history.  I reckon if we all grab a few and start now we might eventually hit on the right one.  Or we could just wait, because the sound of a clock ticking down seems to be getting louder.


Australian court upholds order for Musk's X to pay $418,000 fine over anti-child abuse probe

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian court upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk's X to pay a fine of A$610,500 ($418,000) for failing to cooperate with a regulator's request for information about anti-child-abuse practices.

X had challenged the fine but the Federal Court of Australia ruled it was obliged to respond to a notice from the eSafety Commissioner, an internet safety regulator, seeking information about steps to address child sexual exploitation material on the platform.

Musk took X, then called Twitter, private in 2022. But the company had argued it was not bound to respond to the notice in early 2023 because it was folded into a new Musk-controlled corporate entity, removing liability.

"Had X Corp's argument been accepted by the Court it could have set the concerning precedent that a foreign company's merger with another foreign company might enable it to avoid regulatory obligations in Australia," eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement following the verdict.

eSafety has also started civil proceedings against X because of its noncompliance.

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

This is not the first conflict between Musk and the Australian internet safety regulator. The eSafety Commissioner earlier this year ordered X to remove posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon.

X challenged the order in court on the grounds that a regulator in one country should not decide what internet users viewed around the world, and ultimately kept the posts up after the Australian regulator withdrew its case.

Musk said at the time the order was censorship and shared posts describing the order, which would have applied globally, as a plot by the World Economic Forum to impose eSafety rules on the world.

($1 = 1.4609 Australian dollars)

Reuters via MSN

[kittylady]

[kittylady]

[mostroop]

He and Trump using the same ridiculous superhero body 🙄🙄

[kittylady]

And for anyone wondering whether they should make the jump across to BlueSky...

[kittylady]

If you are still on the fence about finally leaving Twitter for BlueSky, Threads or Mastodon then bear in mind that Leon is about to implement a whole new Terms of Service.

PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever

If you're on Twitter/X, you may have noticed a sudden stream of high-profile accounts heading for the exits. And no, it's not (just) about the election.

This exodus is thanks to a new Terms of Service document, which takes effect on November 15. Although the company isn't talking about it, the new ToS gives owner Elon Musk the right to use your tweets, photos and videos to train his AI bot, Grok.

The option to opt out of Grok training, something users currently have, may still exist in your settings the following day. But it also may not matter, legally speaking. Nothing about opting out is mentioned in the document you are required to sign. And it doesn't appear to make a difference if your account is locked: So far as this ToS is concerned, Grok gets to feed on it anyway.

Oh yes, and following free speech is no longer free. You'll be on the hook for $15,000 in damages if your account accesses more than a million tweets a day. Not even the hardest of hardcore Twitter junkies will reach that number, but many researchers do. For anyone who tracks hate speech on X, this will have a chilling effect. The Knight Institute for the First Amendment at Columbia University calls it a "disturbing move" for a supposed free-speech advocate.

Disagree with anything in this document, or any other changes going forward? According to the ToS, your only legal recourse is to fight the world's richest man in one court in rural Texas, many miles from X HQ in Austin. This happens to be a court where a judge who may still own a pile of Tesla stock has already given Musk favorable rulings.

Breaking up with your X

Don't want Elon Musk to feed your feed to his pet AI? There is, alas, only one way out of it now: delete your account.

That's a drastic and highly emotive step to take, given all the hundreds or thousands of tweets that may be in there. You can download an archive of your tweets by following these steps, but the final step involves waiting for X to prepare the archive. Some users with a long history of tweets, who have downloaded this archive before, are reporting that the preparation is taking longer this time.

This may not be a deliberate delay past the November 15 deadline, as some suggest; it may just be that the system is backed up with download requests.

You may have good reason for staying, of course — one being to ensure that no malicious actor grabs your handle and impersonates you. If you fear the removal of the block feature, which is also rolling out after November 15, you can lock your account down to ensure only your followers will see your tweets.

Bottom line — there's no one right way to leave. Jaime Lee Curtis posted a screenshot of her X deactivation on Instagram, along with the serenity prayer. Don Lemon left a simple statement on the service with his reasoning: the Terms of Service change. The Guardian wrote an article explaining that its decision to no longer post on X had been in the works for a while. And after the Center For Countering Digital Hate posted its final tweets, it deleted the account.

And if you don't think any of this matters and you're happy to stay on X? Well, good luck dealing with the increasingly controlling Musk regime.

For those about to Grok, we salute you.

Yahoo Tech

Edited to add: Some people on Reddit are reporting issues trying to deactivate their account through the app. Passwords are being accepted to log in and even change the log in password multiple times, but then coming up as incorrect when they try to deactivate or seeming to be successful until the last moment when they are stuck in an endless loop of refreshing the sceen. The current fix seems to be to deactivate via a browser instead.

[Sarzy]

There's a data sharing privacy setting in Twitter which allows you to turn Grok off so it doesn't use your content.

Edit - sorry just noticed the article mentioned that 

[kittylady]

And another of his kids is about to be disowned for not buying his bullshit.

[kittylady]

Just my opinion but this is probably a concerted effort by certain sections to crash BlueSky's moderation abilities and disrupt the platform as a whole to get even for quitting/drive people back to Twitter, but even so Musk's reaction to this is breathtaking - until you remember that this is the same man who reinstated the account of a user who posted CSAM images, and was supported in his decision by Kari Lake and other Far Right commentators.

(Link leads to an article by Forbes)

[no1novice]

A combination of russian bots & programming/algorithm.