@redsad dang.... I hope things are better for you now!
On an unrelated note.... when I saw "that girl needs therapy" my first thought was "Frontier Psychiatrist".
Sorry
@redsad dang.... I hope things are better for you now!
On an unrelated note.... when I saw "that girl needs therapy" my first thought was "Frontier Psychiatrist".
Sorry
@bert_hubert can't happen soon enough
@hennavirkkunen hello Henna,
And why wait until slow gears of governments and legislators finally catch up with this. I have been looking at the web pages and online presences of politicians, organisations, companies etc here in Ireland. If I see a link to follow them on X I contact them and ask them how they can morally justify keeping a presence there. Yes we need to look at legal action agains X and Grok, but while we're waiting for that we can keep pushing those entities to #LoseTheXLink
@rozeboosje@fedi.at heb dit ook naar #volkskrant en #telegraaf gestuurd
@andrewstroehlein may I also alert you to this longer post I just put up through my fedi.at account.
It deals with major news outlets and political parties continuing to offer the option to people to follow them on "X":
I just sent this to RTÉ, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour May I respectfully suggest that other people do something similar to your own news organisations and political parties? Use your own words, if you can. This is what I sent: Subject: "Your continued presence on X" Text: Dear Sir or Madam, As you will doubtlessly be aware, "X" is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons, but the latest scandal about this platform and its continued use of its AI bot "Grok", to allow people to digitally undress and create pornographic content of people, including children, without their consent must certainly be the straw that breaks the camel's back? When confronted about the problem the platform did nothing to address the problem. In fact they made it worse by making this despicable ability effectively "pay per view". This is disgusting. I therefore must alert you to the fact that you are still offering the option to people to follow your account on that platform. By doing so you are feeding into its business model, and that does nothing to add real pressure on them to stop offering users the option to do these things. It would be beyond cowardly to hide behind legislation on this matter, waiting for the government or the EU to legislate against it or to ban the platform outright. The real pressure will come from major content providers such as yourself pulling out. And in light of these recent developments there can be no moral justification for you remaining a presence there. While I am on the subject, I would like to ask you to look beyond the main players in social media. Why not add a presence on a Mastodon instance, for example? Mastodon would be an ethical alternative to X, and even if you cannot bring yourself to close your account on X, with you presenting options to follow you on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, surely it would not be a big deal to add one more "icon" to that list? Kind regards ...
Mastodon Instanz für Österreich (fedi.at)
@andrewstroehlein I closed my account WAY back, the moment I heard Elon Musk express his interest in buying Twitter. I never regretted that decision.
@rozeboosje@fedi.at posted this through my Fedi.at account as it was more than 500 characters.