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Given that the US government is literally threatening to sanction UK and its politicians for any attempt to block X while this is happening, I very much doubt t
by gambiting 10mo ago
Given that the US government is literally threatening to sanction UK and its politicians for any attempt to block X while this is happening, I very much doubt that Google/Apple will want to take any action lest they attract ire of their own government. Who would have thought that government led by a convicted criminal would rather sanction its closest ally than force X to take action against this.
- ben_w 10mo agoA convicted criminal who is also in the middle of a simultaneous scandal involving his relationship with Epstein and his administration's failure to release all the Epstein files as ordered. While the owner of X also keeps spreading stories suggesting the UK isn't doing enough to stop exactly the sort of thing that X is now taking money for, and who has previously said that aforementioned convicted criminal is in the Epstein files in a particularly bad way.
- sndksksk 10mo agoI can say what I want : good I can't say what I want : bad understand?
- ben_w 10mo agoMusk takes money to create criminal material, and spends that money to politically support someone personally accused of the same category of criminal conductand who has also definitely interfered with the investigation of criminal conduct regarding the same, where both material and conduct is in a category Musk himself states is worthy of a civil war for not preventing. He's a hypocrite. Or to phrase it the way you did: CSAM when Musk or his allies do it: Musk claims freedom of speech. CSAM when opponents of Musk have not pulled every lever to wipe it out: Musk calls for civil war and regime change.
- collingreen 10mo agoYou forgot the third pillar: You can say what I don't want: bad
- drcongo 10mo agoCan the UK really still be described as the US's closest ally? Feels a lot more like we're America's gimp these days.
- polotics 10mo agoOrwell's "Airstrip One" moniker from 1984 comes to mind. Most apt in the context of the recent north-Atlantic tanker interdiction exercise. Them NATO bases are quite useful!
- ben_w 10mo agoClosest, but not close. UK's "independent" nuclear deterrant is British made warheads in British made submarines, but the missiles fired from those subs and to which those warheads are attached, are American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile) Still, plenty of times the UK has gone to bite, only to metaphorically boinked on the nose by a rolled up newspaper. Notably the Suez crisis.