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I think the article’s subtitle is spot on:

The finance industry is afraid of Elon Musk, Grok edition

The payment processors’ fear of legal action and financial impact outweighs what little morality they have.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children as part of its sample of 20,000 images made by Grok from December 29th to January 8th. Using that sample, the group estimated that 23,000 sexualized images of children had been produced in that time frame. Over that 11-day period, they estimated that on average, a sexualized image of a child was produced every 41 seconds. In the past, payment providers have been aggressive about cutting access to websites thought to have a significant presence of CSAM — or even legal, consensually produced sexual content… So why is X different? It’s run by Elon Musk. “He’s the richest man in the world, he has close ties to the US government, and he’s incredibly litigious,” says Pfefferkorn. In fact, Musk has previously filed suit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate; in a now-dismissed lawsuit, he claimed it illegally collected data showing an increase in hate speech after he bought the platform formerly known as Twitter.

This is almost straight out of the catfishing/pig-butchering scam playbook, except Trump and Vance aren’t pretending to be anyone else…

Ooh, “may finally be reaching a reckoning”… Wake me when they finally face consequences. My money’s on a staged withdrawal from Minneapolis and then a rinse-and-repeat in another city as soon as the media has moved on.

Please do it! These people need to feel consequences and their finances are the only consequence they understand.

Oh, I know, but most of the time they’re remembered for only one or two things. I have no idea how the history books are going to handle the shear number of unhinged things Trump and co have done.

Argh. I was hoping to upgrade my server storage later this year…

I honestly don’t know how the Onion is going to beat this.

Heck, I don’t know if future students of history are actually going to be able to believe the history books about this decade, should they be written with any sort of accuracy… Reality’s jumped the shark.

Argh, sorry to hear that, but at least it sounds like it’s very early in the process. Hopefully it’s easily treated and you’re back in no time.

I wish you all the best.

Somehow I think they don’t actually want to solve this problem, so are doing the bare minimum to make it look like they’re trying.

One can only hope!

Of course. The technique works for him most of the time, too, which is why he keeps doing it.

He’s setting the expectation that if the Democrats do gain power after the midterms, then even if they rightfully impeach him his base will view it as politically motivated.

He’s done this type of thing before. Doesn’t surprise me.