Australia fines Twitter over failure to co-operate with Child Sexual Abuse Material probe

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Australia fines Twitter over failure to co-operate with Child Sexual Abuse Material probe | Boing Boing

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[gracchus]

Who’s the “pedo guy” now?

[derioderio]

The good news for Twitter is that the fine is $386,000 and pocket change to its billionaire owners.

Anyone want to take bets on whether the Australian government is ever able to actually collect the fine?

[Fred_Cairns]

See, the problem with calling it “X” is that the letter x doesn’t have four crooked legs.

[snigs]

Agree about twitter, not sure why anyone humors the rich idiot with bad ideas, it might encourage him.

[HMSGoose]

@beschizza

he said that “removing child exploitation is priority #1,” but his whimsical management of the company saw the moderators responsible mostly fired and an increased prominence of such material on the site.

A right-wing asshole who claims their focus is child sexual abuse but actually spends all their time spreading anti-Democratic conspiracies and sabotaging and defunding the agencies who are actually tasked with the job? Sounds like he should have just called it Qwitter.

[MaxwellMudd]

It’s funny, my kids ask why I still call it Twitter and I just tell them there’s no way in Hell I’m EVER going to call it “X”. Plus, I still go to Twitter dot com to use it.
Also, X was the name of his first company. What happened? Did he run out of name ideas after naming, what, four other companies?

[nemonowan]

Everyone should be referring to it as “eXtwitter”

[Bunbain]

I’m partial to “the dead bird site” myself.

[anothernewbbaccount]

the ongoing clincher is that it’ll be Twitter again when he sells it it is dead and buried and only written about by historians.

[Immutable_Mike]

@gracchus

pedo guy

@nemonowan

should be referring to it as “eXtwitter”

The Pedo Platform?

[GagHalfrunt]

@MaxwellMudd

Also, X was the name of his first company. What happened? Did he run out of name ideas after naming, what, four other companies?

Musk was not a founder of Tesla and didn’t name it, Hyperloop isn’t even a company and SpaceX contains the magic letter X. That just leaves Neuralink and the Boring Company as X-less Musk companies.

[Brainspore]

@MaxwellMudd

I still go to Twitter dot com to use it.

If I may make a suggestion…

[Steve_L]

Does that company have any assets in Australia? Send the authorities in with moving vans and go on a seizing spree, like the person who foreclosed on a Bank of America branch. Might I suggest that the first things taken be any servers?

[jerwin]

an anecdote:

reddit thread: actual csam now being posted by bots