I don't understand how the UK government (and indeed many firms) can continue to maintain a presence on Elon Musk's deepfake porn site (formerly known as Twitter), rather than jumping ship to the likes of Mastodon and Bluesky.
Their continued association with X/Twitter isn't just a bad look, it's an endorsement of a site that behaves in a disgusting, degrading way, and has been churning out sexualised images of real-life women and young girls.
Is it just to avoid the wrath of Elon Musk?
People who remain at X are eating from the cart, thinking it's ok as long as it's only they and their friends who are doing it.
(Thus also moving the cost of creating a new platform without loliporn for those who refuse categorically to entertain Musk.)
It's a form of privilegism.
Or to be more blunt: it's your basic right-wing hierarchy bullshit, also easily seen in context of CO2-emissions.
This also relates to the two main sub-genres of right-wing politics: doing something because we're¹ always done it, and doing something because it's advantageous in short term.² Or in other words: conservatism and liberalism.
¹ eg. due to something having been done, it should still be done, even if the context (abilibility of computer generated child- and hate-porn) has changed.
² you may think of this as a hierarchy in time, instead of in space.
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