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Monday, January 12, 2026

The UK's independent online safety watchdog, Ofcom, has opened a formal investigation into 'X' under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether Elon Musk's company has complied with its duties to protect people from content that is illegal in the UK.

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Ofcom has decided to open a formal investigation to establish whether X has failed to comply with its legal obligations under the Online Safety Act " in particular, to:
-assess the risk of people in the UK seeing content that is illegal in the UK, and to carry out an updated risk assessment before making any significant changes to their service;
-take appropriate steps to prevent people in the UK from seeing priority' illegal content " including non-consensual intimate images and CSAM;
-take down illegal content swiftly when they become aware of it;
-have regard to protecting users from a breach of privacy laws;
-assess the risk their service poses to UK children, and to carry out an updated risk assessment before making any significant changes to their service; and
-use highly effective age assurance to protect UK children from seeing pornography.

The world's richest man, good-for-nothing Felon Musk, has also been stoking racial tensions in the UK. The mega-oligarch posted pathetic apologies and weak defenses of X and Grok AI:

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-12 11:51 AM | Reply

The UK is doing more than the US to rein in our evil oligarch overlords.

Encroyable.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-13 03:49 AM | Reply

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