Blogger’s Note: Elon Musk is a Neo-Nazi who threw his millions behind Trump securing a second term. This is not surprising for a White South Africa and supporter of Zionist Israel. He was rewarded by Trump by being propelled into political power without ever standing or winning a democratically elected seat in any government or system in the world. Since then, this love-in has soured and Musk has returned to the political side-lines sniping at Trump from the shadows with rounds constructed of “Epstein Accusation” bullets. Of course, this is not the first-time the world has heard of “Grok” – the Musk AI search-engine. Last year, Grok produced pro-Hitler and anti-Jewish rhetoric when asked probing questions about Gaza. Despite the West a priori supporting Zionist Israel (Musk was still working in the Trump government at the time), the criticism this attracted was minimal by contrast. It was viewed as a programming quirk relating to Grok’s operating protocols with no calls for its banning. Recently, however, Grok has been allowing X-users to generate AI images of women, teenagers (youths), and children (many premised on “real” or “known” individuals) – with these images being “naked” and “sexualised” in various ways. It seems that this Grok-activity was/is feeding into paedophilic and misogynistic tendencies – as well as violating privacy laws. Musk seems to think that this activity should be “protected” by “freedom of speech” and “freedom of expression” legislation – even though these vary around the world. The problem is a broader issue which has seen the governments of Western Europe permit the US-controlled internet to invade sovereign (non-American) geographical spaces and apply US law where such law does not exist (the political left outside of the US has been one of the most prevalent victims of this policy) – the right and far-right the greatest benefiter). The US concept of “freedom of speech” allows “ignorance” to possess the same status as “wisdom” – and herein lies the problem. The UK possesses “responsibility of speech” – where each individual must learn the current acceptable parameters within public debate (private is another matter) – and operate from within those limitations. The only place to possess “freedom of speech” in the UK is the British Parliament – where elected “Members of Parliament” (MPs) – but MPs must operate within a very strict, limited, and formulaic question and answer format, or risk being “suspended” and/or “removed’ from the Chamber (this is why the two sides of the Parliament – the “government” and the “opposition” – are seated at least two-sword-lengths apart). ACW (12.1.2026)
chinadaily.com.cn 2026-01-12
Billionaire Elon Musk has accused the United Kingdom government of seeking to curb free speech as British ministers stepped up threats to block his website X after its AI tool, Grok, generated sexual images of women and children without consent.
Government ministers in the UK have demanded action against the company unless the function to create sexually harassing images is removed.
On Saturday, the South African-born technology tycoon Musk, who became a citizen of the United States in 2002, said opponents of his platform X are using “any excuse for censorship” and accused the UK government of being “fascist”.
“They just want to suppress free speech,” Musk wrote on X.
After a backlash over the obscene digital manipulation feature last week, the response from Musk’s xAI, which operates Grok and X, was initially to simply insist that “legacy media lies”.
Then on Friday, X barred nonsubscribers from generating images, restricting the tool to paying users.
Some governments and critics say that keeping the tool available to subscribers does not solve the problem, and many countries around the world have condemned the feature.
After meeting US Vice-President JD Vance on Sunday, UK Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy said Vance views Grok’s sexualized manipulation of images of women and children as “entirely unacceptable”.
Lammy told The Guardian newspaper he raised “the horrendous, horrific situation in which this new technology is allowing deepfakes and the manipulation of images of women and children, which is just absolutely abhorrent”.
News reports last week warned thousands of women have been targeted by users of the AI tool, which began by altering fully clothed photos to make them appear in micro bikinis and then escalated to more extreme manipulations.
The UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Liz Kendall said Friday that ministers are considering blocking access to X.
Ofcom, the UK regulator for online, broadcasting, and telecommunications industries, was last week reported to be seeking answers from the X platform. Kendall said she expected the regulator to announce action within “days not weeks”.
“X needs to get a grip and get this material down,” she said. “And I would remind them that in the Online Safety Act, there are backstop powers to block access to services if they refuse to comply with the law for people in the UK. And if Ofcom decides to use those powers, they would have the full backing of the government.”
Ireland’s media regulator said it had notified the European Commission that Grok was being used to create digitally undressed images of women and children to be shared on X.
Speaking on Saturday, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese echoed the UK’s concerns. “Global citizens deserve better”, he said.
He noted that Australia recently barred social media use for under16s.
“The use of generative artificial intelligence to exploit or sexualize people without their consent is abhorrent,” he said.
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