And horny teens have always fantasist about celebrities, or that girl they have a crush one etc. And there always had been people people cutting physical images together to place the head of their obsession on some erotic magazine sourced body.

But like you saied it's creating a feed of all the people which have been sexualized against their will.

There is a huge difference between someone doing something in your mind (or room) and it staying there and it being posted international for billions of people to see (and download, and re-post, and cherry pick preferred pictures and then feed into AI model which will actually full undress people etc.)

and a huge company making money from not just sexualizing people against their will, but also putting creating a public feed about all the people they have sexualized against their will

and then the owner going out of their way to claim that that is all free speech they won't change anything and anyone who tries is fascist, communist, evil etc.

except that definitions of what free speech means vary largely between countries and huge parts of the world have definitions where stuff like "creating sexualized images of people against their will" (or systematic harassment, cyber mobbing, death threads, and a bunch of other things) are very clearly _not_ covered by free speech.

realistically speaking this is also AI output, i.e. not speech of a person (weather natural or legal/company), i.e. it's questionably if Grok posting generated images does even count as speech (in the US and many other countries)...

initially they outright said, there is no problem

and Musk went further saying it's free speech and implying if you try do anything against it you are fascist

and you could check the Grok "~feed" and get tons over tons of examples of them _not_ doing anything. And if that changed, then it did very recently. I mean the UK is not the only country where the topic of regulating X to to them failing to self regulate and outright intentionally ignoring local laws was opened up. And as much as Musk might say he don't care and it's implied that the US will retaliate against any country which enforces actions against X for not complying with their law when doing business in their country, it still is a huge headache for X (company) and it's not like people in the US are supper happy about that either.

Actually I see its 14 central banks that have this USD FX swap facility (but the BoE, ECB, and BoJ are essentially uncapped).

My sources:

1. I did some early work in a very early precursor of this with Reuters

2. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp230324a.pdf

3. The Federal Reserve Banks (Richmond) https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus...

How it works is:

The BoE needs USD, say $10 billion, so it SIMULTANEOUS conjures out of absolute thin air a single ledger entry:

- GBP ₤ 7,437,400,000 - liability to US FED

- USD $10,000,000,000 - asset to UK BoE

It then:

- lends the $10 billion to whoever needs it in the UK

- later (so not immediately*) lets the Fed know it has a new GBP asset.

It later promises to pay it all back. If it can.

But, be very clear, 14 central banks, can and do conjure up USD out of thin air. They call it something boring ("FX swaps").

The modern fiat monetary system is weird. (And I want to be a bank).

But to my earlier point - this print on demand, let us know later facility is only needed because of the demand for USD.

> The authority set the multi-million euro fine with the resolution now published based on one percent of Cloudflare's global annual revenue. It justifies this calculation with the company's cross-border structure: Since Cloudflare's infrastructure is globally oriented and enables the circumvention of local blocks, the sanction must also have a corresponding "deterrent effect" and go beyond the national framework.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cloudflare-record-fine-Italy-s-...