daphnek · TEXXR

This sounds an awful lot like giving other parts of the world VPN access to what can be seen from the U.S.? — In which case, shhhhh, no one tell them that this is exactly what the Hillary Clinton State Dept did 🤫 — www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

2026-02-19 View on X

The Guardian

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

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This sounds an awful lot like giving other parts of the world VPN access to what can be seen from the U.S.? — In which case, shhhhh, no one tell them that this is exactly what the Hillary Clinton State Dept did 🤫 — www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

2026-02-19 View on X

Reuters

Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments

The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …

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There are plenty of *real* divisions between the U.S. and EU in speech laws for hate, disinformation, etc. But *not* about this. — It takes a very talented huckster to convince the world that purveying literal child sexual abuse material makes Elon an American speech hero fighting French oppression.

2026-02-03 View on X

BBC

Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

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The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. — This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. …

2026-02-03 View on X

BBC

Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

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Indonesia advances — quite understandably TBH — to the hardball stage of cross-border content regulation realpolitik. — That plus threatening to seize assets from Starlink worked for Brazil...

2026-01-11 View on X

Bloomberg

Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content

Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexu...

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Indonesia advances — quite understandably TBH — to the hardball stage of cross-border content regulation realpolitik. — That plus threatening to seize assets from Starlink worked for Brazil...

2026-01-11 View on X

Reuters

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool

Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.

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Also Italy's AGCOM, the most unhinged of the national regulators enforcing the DSA + other important laws, tried to fine Cloudflare 14.2 million Euros and @eastdakota.com is NOT having it. — This is not under DSA, it's under Italy's bonkers “Piracy Shield” law. [image]

2026-01-10 View on X

Ars Technica