X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material
X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material
Company formerly known as Twitter becomes the first online platform to be issued a fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act for its failure to meet basic online safety expectations.
X has 28 days to either pay the fine, issued by the e-safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, or provide responses to questions X ignored from the commissioner on its work to crack down on child sexual abuse material on the platform.
The legal notices were issued to X, Google, TikTok, Twitch and Discord in February following the first round of notices sent to Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Snap and Omegle last year.
They refused to respond to an Australian government investigation. (Because Elon fired the two people who interfaced with Australia.)
The fine is not directly because they haven't cracked down*, but because they couldn't competently answer if they're handling it at all.
(* and they've probably fired enough trust and safety people that they're also having trouble there, but that's not exactly what the fine is for.)
51You mean a "💩" doesn't count as a "reply"?
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theyre already billions in the hole, tons of lawsuits that are not going to go their way, and not cheaply..
how long til he pulls the old bankruptcy plug?
30It can run at a loss. I believe the real motive here was to deplatform some users, or at least limit the functionality and usefulness of the platform. Twitter's reach was vast, and activists were using its reach to speak out against oppressive Governments (amongst other things). The previous two US elections also demonstrated the power and influence of Social media. Elon can run X at a loss, funded by Saudi (and others) as long as it stays larger than competitors.
As much as we'd like them to be, Mastodon et al are not nearly big enough to compete at the moment, and it will take some time to match the critical mass of X. Thus, as much as users might complain, those that require a loudspeaker platform (journalists, celebrities, politicians, academics) are compelled to still use X lest they themselves become irrelevant.
19Twitter could run at a loss because of its investors. They were a major public communication platform with a huge user count, so investors were keen to pump money into it because it had the perception of a stable company, and they were probably able to secure loans based on those investments and their assets.
Elon has systematically gutted the company, and destroyed its brand recognition(see how every article that mention it has added a clarification when they mention X)
Their stock took a dive and has now just regained some of its pre musk value, but with the constant news about subscription models and more changes, who knows how long that will last.
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Is there any surprise that, after Musk took over, theres more CP on the platform than ever?
25Source for that?
-5I mean, in addition to what everyone has already said, he DID unban people that were posting CSM
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Wow, that's so much! That's like if I got fined $0.20 for that, since this is like 1/23,000 of their net worth...
22Why would he meet safety expectations when his entire user base at this point are conservative NAZIs. He’d only be shooting himself in the foot if he alienated the remaining degenerates that use that shit platform.
12his entire user base at this point are conservative NAZIs.
Delusion just isn't a river in Egypt.
-18Gonna block you now.
(Did I say that right? Seems that’s the entirety of your comment history, so you’d be the expert)
11You should brush up on your not-being-a-pos-human skills.
Gonna block you now.
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has become the first online platform to be issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia’s Online Safety Act
9That'll teach em...
5Lol get rekt twitter.
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