France is moving to classify X as a pornographic website, a designation that would place it under the country’s mandatory age verification and digital ID laws.
This step, if finalized, would force the company to either implement robust age-gating mechanisms or restrict access to adult content altogether to avoid being cut off from younger users.
It would also mean that users have to show ID to access the platform, introducing major implications for privacy and free speech.
Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?
How would that work?
POP QUIZ!
QUICK, who was the last french president that visited Germany in 1896?Félix Faure was president of France in 1896, but he didn’t visit Germany that year.
Just ask for something like “what’s the quadratic formula?”
Tho to be fair, that would still probably block at least half of xitter’s users…
This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.
Elon probably punching air rn
That’s the only thing he’s ever punched.
The site formerly known as Twitter would be more respectable these days if it were a porn site.
It’s not? Thought that’s the main use.
The titter side was better
I like my porn to be less faschy and more flashy.
Yeah alright, but dem uniformed forms though…
Fucking ridiculous. Might as well do the same for sites like Tumblr, Reddit, even Youtube. “Protecting” kids comes at the expense of everyone else.
twitter is an adult site though. i’d argue reddit is too youtube no since they do not allow explicit content
Its not about protecting kids, even if they say it is.
Religious nut are offended because they felt funny.
I felt a tingle in my dingle and now I’m going to make it everyone’s problem. - pretty much every religious leader
Which is funny because it pairs so well with the agenda of the corporatists and fascists, who could give a shit about religion but would love to track you online even more.
I’m certain that religion is responsible, and has been, for nearly every conflict in the last 1500 or so years. Yet, it seems to be entirely ignored by leftists (conservatives don’t have a reasonable view) as the cause of problems.
I think you’re confusing Liberals with Leftists.
I can’t remember a single self-proclaimed “Communist” nation that wasn’t anti-Religion.
Tolerance of Religion comes from the Liberal political beliefs side (which many people who are also Leftwingers have) and the modern “Liberals” in places like the US and UK (which are Rightwingers) are the ones who stretch it well beyond tolerance to the point of deeming criticism of some Religions (but not others) as a bad thing, or in other words, activelly supporting certain religions and their values (which as you pointed out, tend to be Corporatist and Fascist).
In summary, Authoritarian Leftwingers tend to be anti-Religion, Liberal Leftwingers tend to tolerate Religion and “Liberal” Rightwingers at the very least defend and sometimes even support certain specific Religions (as far as I can tell, the ones supported by their local money and power elites) but not others.
Honestly, it seems that Christianity is the only one mentioned as a problem, normally with a big disclaimer about “not all Christians”. Judaism is only really mentioned explicitly with “Judeo-Christian values”, as if the founding fathers were staunch members of either religion, which most were not. Authoritarian governments like controlling religion because it can control the people. Leftists (at least the ones I’ve seen) are mostly ignoring the issues of other religions. Conservative critiques of religion tend to just be actual racism, without criticising the actual problems present.
I can’t remember a single self-proclaimed “Communist” nation that wasn’t anti-Religion.
Besides historical trends and stuff (like how push to literacy denied religion it’s power), ‘communist’ governments directly competed with religion on the ideological table.
Soviet people were given an afterlife-like myth of finally building the communism via socialism, for example, Lenin was a handy translation of Jesus, and so on. All pieces felt into existing sockets, that’s how it worked out. It’s a win for however found that conversion of ideas for the masses.
(I tolerate faith, I hate religious institutions)
Oh, of course not. Just the given excuse. Honestly, people being so obsessed with minors jacking off is creepy. Who cares? If it’s a problem, then the parents can deal with it.
As a parent, I’m with you.
Leave it to the Macron government to do the right thing in the wrongest way possible.
Now this is quotable!
I don’t really tend to keep track of foreign politics most of the time, but I’m pretty sure that Macron was groomed by his wife, which is now abusing him, and that Europe isn’t really getting better in general.
Won’t somebody think of the children [who should be raised by their parents, not governments]?
Twitter is shit, but France went really nuts.
If it’s just Elon who suffers I’m fine.
Why is anyone still on X anyway? Its AI bot trash.
Annoyingly many artists still use it, and for some it’s their only platform they post at any regularity, except for paid posts on patreon. I haven’t used Twitter as a social media site for almost a decade now, but my “twitter only” art list still has 18 people on it.
Because artists are still there.
Why is every country dreaming of becoming south korea?
Nazi propaganda: I sleep
Porn: Real shit
Never expected the place known for nude beaches and a president who married a pedophile to be one that implemented this kind of block.
Everyone in France already subbed to VPNs for the pornhub block. This won’t even result in a traffic hiccup.
Kids would be better off on pornhub
Tbh adult content is probrally the most respectable content you can find on X, especially compared to the constant Nazis and genocide apologetic liberals.
Liberals are genocide apologists?!
Sad to see France is heading this direction, Canada was very close to heading this route too, thankfully it didn’t end up that way.
