Wandering Adventure Party

Pino Carafa (@rozeboosje@fedi.at)

I just sent this to RTÉ, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour May I respectfully suggest that other people do something similar to your own news organisations and political parties? Use your own words, if you can. This is what I sent: Subject: "Your continued presence on X" Text: Dear Sir or Madam, As you will doubtlessly be aware, "X" is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons, but the latest scandal about this platform and its continued use of its AI bot "Grok", to allow people to digitally undress and create pornographic content of people, including children, without their consent must certainly be the straw that breaks the camel's back? When confronted about the problem the platform did nothing to address the problem. In fact they made it worse by making this despicable ability effectively "pay per view". This is disgusting. I therefore must alert you to the fact that you are still offering the option to people to follow your account on that platform. By doing so you are feeding into its business model, and that does nothing to add real pressure on them to stop offering users the option to do these things. It would be beyond cowardly to hide behind legislation on this matter, waiting for the government or the EU to legislate against it or to ban the platform outright. The real pressure will come from major content providers such as yourself pulling out. And in light of these recent developments there can be no moral justification for you remaining a presence there. While I am on the subject, I would like to ask you to look beyond the main players in social media. Why not add a presence on a Mastodon instance, for example? Mastodon would be an ethical alternative to X, and even if you cannot bring yourself to close your account on X, with you presenting options to follow you on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, surely it would not be a big deal to add one more "icon" to that list? Kind regards ...