Trump aide likens UK threat to ban X to Putin's Russia [View all]
Source: The Times (UK)
President Trump’s free-speech tsar has compared the government’s threats against X to President Putin’s Russia in a row over deepfake pornography generated by artificial intelligence.
Sarah Rogers, the US state department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, made the comparison in a series of online posts attacking the UK for considering restrictions on the platform, which is owned by Elon Musk.
Liz Kendall, the UK technology secretary, said that ministers would back the regulator Ofcom if it decided to block access to X in the UK after its Grok artificial-intelligence tool was used to create deepfake images, including of undressed women and sexualised children.
However, Rogers said that Britain was “contemplating a Russia-style X ban, to protect them from bikini images”.
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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-aide-threat-ban-x-putin-russia-rr3tkc7qv
Our pedophile president has to have his flunkies defend the tech lords who are bribing and supporting him.
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