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1. gg82+nh[view] [source] 2025-07-28 06:14:51
>>mmaria+(OP)
The safety rules are also being used to block content about protests in the UK. How convenient for them.

https://freespeechunion.org/protest-footage-blocked-as-onlin...

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2. alwa+3i[view] [source] 2025-07-28 06:23:27
>>gg82+nh
> “West Yorkshire Police denied any involvement in blocking the footage. X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.”

I’m not involved with X or with its chatbot. Is its chatbot ordinarily an authoritative source for facts about assumptions like this one, that the law “was used to take down” politically sensitive video?

It’s a bad look either way, but I feel like there are important differences between the law leading to overly conservative automated filtering, vs political actors using it deliberately in specific cases. Bad symptom either way, but different medicines, right?

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3. portao+8j[view] [source] 2025-07-28 06:34:09
>>alwa+3i
Of course LLMs are a rubbish source for facts, one should always verify. Not possible in this case so I would assume it just made it up
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