Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse::undefined

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An important part that seems lost in this:

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

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Holy shit that’s absolutely disgusting.

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Narcissistic pedo, doing narcissistic pedo things, because he’s a narcissistic pedo.

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And these are the “elite” of our species? We have allowed hell to exist on Earth for far too long.

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Nah these are the elites of our society.

The elites of our species are the athletes and geniuses who do shit that leaves us in awe.

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6 points

There really needs to be more awareness and actual punishment to prevent stochastic terrorism

Knowing the kind of people that are out there this guy is lucky to be alive after being marked like this…

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A hit piece the lemmings will believe without a second thought.

Elon massively expanded CSAM-detection capabilities on Twitter and upped bans for it by 400% since he joined.

Fact - the unbanned user is an anti-pedophile activist who found the censored image on a news site, not knowing its original content, and posted it to solicit donations for the family.

Nothing could be detailed from the picture, but legally you are not allowed to post an image that was originally csam even if you turn it into a black jpeg. Both the original site and he were punished. Elon knew it was an innocent mistake, and in light of the good work he does against grooming in modern America, he unbanned him.

Then WaPo posted a hit article. Is it any coincidence that Washington Post is run by pedophiles?

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NYT, CNN, Reuters, too? Oh wait, FOX must not have covered it.

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So I see it’s going great with an almost non existent CSAM team, who needs them anyway?

Good luck with X buddy, I’m sure advertisers can’t wait to have their ad show next to some good old CSAM material.

But at least conservatives aren’t censored anymore and the democrats were the real groomers anyway, right?

What a dumpster fire… I hope it all burns to the ground. We can live without Twitter just fine.

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What does the acronym CSAM mean?

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Child Sexual Abuse Material, sometimes also called CSEM; Child Sexual Exploitation Material

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I was happier before I knew that.

Alas.

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This acronym didn’t exist until like 1 month ago. Everyone used “CP” prior.

From my observations as terminally online. I fully expect someone to tell me this has been the phrase since 1899 lol

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5 points

I keep thinking it is a type of surface to air missile.

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95 points

Are people just ignoring the X name change and still calling it Twitter? That’s awesome lol

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Of course. X is dumb… I talked to people being confused, thinking X was supposed to be a placeholder.

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Of course. I don’t call Facebook Meta, and I don’t call Google Alphabet.

You can change your company’s name, or nest it in a shell, people still know who you are

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Google and Facebook weren’t rebranded. Twitter was.

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On their case the name change was only for the company not for the product

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That’s not the same thing.

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I can’t wait for musk to be arrested for distribution of CSAM because of his shitty moderation policy decisions because that’s clearly what he wants to happen.

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The guy calls so many others pedos, what’s the likelihood he’s projecting?

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Now we can add “support for CP” as one of the things Muskrat did. Cool.

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Hey. Muskrats are cool. Don’t do them so wrong by adding Fuckstick McBackbirth to their grouping.

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