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Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

https://slrpnk.net/post/32591114

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes - SLRPNK

Lemmy

Jan 9 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadFenderStratocasterJan 9

Their response:

Show threadGordon CalhounJan 9

Were the senators themselves the victims of these deepfakes?

Also, they’re the legislative branch. Why don’t they just create a law to prohibit sexual deepfakes and assess penalties from the companies with tolerance/ambivalence/apathy toward sexual deepfakes?

Show threadbassomitronJan 9
That would require them to actually do their fucking jobs. Congress nowadays just takes orders from the dictator in office.
Show threadMacEnvyJan 10
Are you under the impression that the senators calling for this have any power whatsoever to enact laws? John Thune runs the Senate schedule and he’s a loyalist.
Show threadkinklesJan 9
I don’t have faith that such a law could get passed in a timely manner, if at all, with the current leadership.
Show threadEh-IJan 9

Were the senators themselves the victims of these deepfakes?

Easily done, but ick.

Show threadtitanicxJan 9

Omg. We need to start generating sexual images of all the leaders in the government branches. Clarence blowing Donald while he eats Mike’s ass. 

That’s how we get them to regulate this shit.

Show threadSillyDudeJan 9

That way if the Epstein files are ever released everyone in incriminating photos can just say it’s far left deepfakes?

I’ve pretty convinced this is what they’re stalling for, and are generating the materials themselves.

Show threadtitanicxJan 9
You know that’s already what they’re doing. And anything that comes out and anything that has come out they’ve already been stating that it’s AI or deep fake or photoshop I mean hell we had Photoshop way way before any sort of aid fake that’s just the latest buzzword being used.
Show threadGuyFawkesVJan 10
Because Epstein’s bestie wouldn’t sign it.
Show threadKalonJan 9
Think about how much different our would would be if they had decided all those years ago that platforms are liable for the content they host.
Show threadFlicJan 9
@Kalon @silence7 "too big to fail" -> banking crisis. "too big to moderate" -> culture crisis.
Show threadJeff Turner ⛵Jan 18
@Kalon @silence7 surely that could change.
Show threadYawweee877h444Jan 9

Which. Fucking. Senators.

three Democratic senators

So nobody, nothing. The Dems have no power, let alone are mostly pussies or complacent.

Sensationalist nothingburger headlines.

Show threadaubeynarfJan 9
You know who has no power? The barely-ran green party who holds no seats, and the thrown-away votes that were so edgily withheld.
Show threadreddig33Jan 9
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Show threadXJan 9
Their response: BugsBunnyNO.tar.gz
Show threadInsekticusJan 9

Urged? Why not threaten?

“We will arrest your CEO and board of directors if you do not comply within 24 hours”

Show threadsilence7Jan 9
Because the minority party doesnt have the power to do that
Show threadViking_HippieJan 9
And wouldn’t if they did. They’re beholden to Apple and Google in exchange for legal bribes themselves.
Show threadMacEnvyJan 10
You have no basis whatsoever for believing this. All you’re doing is weakening the opposition and demoralizing the left. You may as well be working for MAGA.
Show threadViking_HippieJan 10

First of all, yes I do.

Second of all, the DNC is a sorry excuse for a supposed opposition and they’re certainly not the Left.

Third of all, people like you reflexively vilifying everyone who criticize the corruption and ineptitude of the DNC leadership are who may as well be working for MAGA, as you’re keeping them in power by shielding the ones who lose eminently winnable elections to them from accountability.

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