Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X

Does this mean in certain US states that you will have to provide ID in order to view X content?

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1146933317/louisiana-new-porn-law-government-id-restriction-privacy

Can't wait for three days from now, when they roll that back in a panic.

I thought they were already allowed... There's tons of adult performers already on there showing full frontal nudity and pornography.

As much as X can get bent The eradication of human sexuality from mass media culture is a clear sign of intense rot at the heart of our civilization. How can such a fundamental element of thr human experience can be so conspicuously absent for almost all art and media. A clear sign of the omnipresent censure and purge of dissenting opinion in our supposedly "free" society.

Time to drop a ton of photoshops of Musk with a diseased micropenis until he changes his mind about this. Maybe shops of Zuckerberg and Musk heads onto gay porn stars so it looks like Mark is dominating Elon's asshole in the literal sense rather than just the figurative sense.

Is this old news? There’s been massive dicks on there for ages.

So he is that desperate already? His user numbers must be close to the ground to try this in the US.

X has been toying with the idea of fully embracing adult content and has even planned a feature for adult creators that could position X as an OnlyFans rival. That plan was delayed, Platformer reported in 2022, after red-teaming flagged a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the launch: "Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

Non-consensual porn had also been a serious problem for PornHub, eventually they just nuked all unverified accounts.

Hmm, maybe that's the plan for X too. It's been going in that pay-to-play direction for a while now.

Am I missing something here? I thought X/Twitter always allowed NSFW content.

TIL Grimes wasn't explicitly allowed to have butts, breasts and genitals before.

edit: oh... not his ex. just call it Twitter ffs.

If X becomes XXX does he gain more power? The more times his favorite letter appears, the stronger his dipshittery becomes!

so he fucked up the whole platform so he has to raise money with porn? not suprised to be honest

Just add two more Xs and it's complete

It's probably so he can say that it's too hard to tell nude children from adults.

Wait they took off the porn? There's like always been porn on Twitter. I'm confused.

always been. Twiiter is much more like Xvideos than people know

Going to need to add two more Xs to the name.

So since Deviantart, Imgur, and Tumblr died by banning porn, he's hoping X will come back to life!?!?

If you thought the bots were obnoxious now....

That scans, last time I looked around on there it was almost exclusively dicks.

Fluff PR piece to get more people talking about Musk's shitty platform.

I can't wait for the stories to come out showing ads for companies next to CSAM that hasn't been taken down in a month.

Now it only lacks the blackjack.

Just don't call anyone 'cis'. That's a crime punishable by ~~death ~~ account deletion.

Wow, a lotta people not aware of porn being a thing already on twitter

They should ban male nipples.

So... let's start uploading lots of gay/trans porn and swe how long it takes before the policy changes!

Finally a feature for the people and a safe place to post all my dick pics

Just don't criticize fascists and religious nut jobs. That's OBSCENE! /s

E.M. tries to find every straw to boost X user base. Let's hope he does not find more of the straw in his head.

First good thing Musk has ever done?

I'm just here to say the thumbnail for this article is great.

Now I just want to make an account t to post AI generated dicks every hour.

Elon must be really lazy to avoid paying for porn

Who is even still using that shitty, shitty platform?

Musk was clearly frustrated that X is only a third as sexy as any porn site. So he’s trying to compensate.

Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.

Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.

What's X?

So they are going from "Pussy in bio" to Pussy in feed?

Porn is actually a good indicator of a social site's success. Early Twitter pre-algo had a lot of furries and low quality hentai, now it has lots of high quality OC. The fediverse is past the very early stages but we're still playing catch up. Algorithms help (in general too) but we don't really have any yet.

Awesome... Driving Twitter into the ground even faster.

Guess hes desperate enough to try anything to keep subs

nice

So he's going to cleanup all the other places!

Noice

Will be interesting.

Well this makes sense. elon musk wants to be able to show his face on twitter/x. And he couldn't do that before, because elon musk is an ass. I'll say it again to really drive the point home.

elon musk is an ass.

elon musk is an ass.

elon musk is an ass.

I just wish Lemmy were popular enough that this would get back to him. People trashing elon musk (is an ass......sorry, it's habbit now) in a place that he can't buy because there's no singular owner. On a platform that would relentlessly boo him harder than that time he was onstage with dave chapelle.

I PROMISE you guys, whenever the republicans are done with this trump experiment, we're getting desantos vs musk in the republican primaries. Both have an ego that wouldn't let them be VP.

The only good news is that they both can't win. There CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!......shitbag.

So, I don't use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:

• The rebranding to X threw out brand value.

• Policy shifts didn't make some people -- who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive -- happy.

• Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.

So, speaking personally, I'm pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don't want someone preventing me from seeing someone's speech. I want to make those decisions myself.

However, there are people who don't agree; they'd prefer to have their environment have content moderation.

What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.

With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:

• Keep Twitter active.

• Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.

• Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.

• Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don't do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated). Maybe have some mechanism for Twitter users to request that X feeds be gatewayed back to Twitter.

That solves a number of problems:

• People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.

• People who don't want heavy moderation can have that, and aren't having to pay for someone else's moderation.

• If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.

• It'd even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.

• The brand value doesn't go away; I've seen many people point out that Twitter is a very-recognizable brand.

I suggested that something vaguely similar might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions. Didn't involve the X.com stuff, though; that came later.

Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But...that's not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.