Hard habit to break

by Rick Johansen

If you are enjoying child abuse and revenge porn by way of using the AI facility Grok on X, I have some news for you. The platform, owned by actual fascist multimillionaire Elon Musk, has changed its policy. You can no longer do so for free and you will need to take out a paid subscription. Yes, that is literally what has happened following the general outcry about everyone having access to the service. Only sick perverts who wish to pay will be allowed to do so. I hope this helps?

Personally, I stopped using X a very long time ago, not long after Musk took it over and turned it into a far right propaganda platform and long before Musk became Trump’s hatchet man and later offered public support, and not a little money, to our own little fascist, serial criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who calls himself Tommy Robinson. I really liked twitter before Musk got his Nazi hands on it. I wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole purely because of that but even if I had a mental breakdown and become a fascist, I think I would draw the line at child abuse. I’ll go much further.

If you use X these days, it is a clear signal that you don’t much care about a social media platform offering child abuse as one of its attractions, because that’s what it is. I’m a little old fashioned and can only speak for myself but find child porn deeply offensive, as offensive as anything can possibly get. I am not usually a hanger and a flogger, but I would not object to those who deal in it, promote, sell and use it, be locked up and the key thrown away. I think the same way about X, too.

Using a service that promotes child abuse and revenge porn surely raises questions about the people who click merrily away on X. Isn’t silence tantamount to condoning X’s policy? I don’t see how it can’t be. Admittedly, I do tend to see the world in a black and white context, with few shades of grey. Pretending something doesn’t exist and isn’t happening doesn’t work for me. I see it as monetising something that is inherently evil. Decent people should leave X alone of that is what it is becoming.

Mind you, I think the same about people who drive TESLAs, especially those with registrations from 2024 onwards. How can they separate one of Musk’s other companies from each other? If one sells child abuse, how can one’s consciously buy  a car from a company with the same owner without condoning the former? When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Musk has certainly done that.

Doubtless, the so-called ‘freedom of speech’ brigade on the far right would be more than happy if a social media platform was able to continue to allow its customers to enjoy child abuse. I don’t know about you but I can see a few difficulties with that point of view.

I’d encourage everyone to get rid of X, particular the government which still uses it on a wide scale. Don’t be frightened about Musk might say: he’s a wrong ‘un and he hates this government anyway, as he would hate any government that was positioned anywhere away from the far right fringes.

I know breaking the habit of social media can feel hard at times, especially if you live much of your life on it. Indeed, it might be a hard habit to break, but I broke it with X because of its owner’s politics. If you can’t break the spell when child abuse is involved, I probably can’t help you.

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