Don’t know if this is genuine but, if it is, surely that must sound the death knell for X on TAN?
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I didn’t even get around to writing a long rebuttal to @ISMF…
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Nothing stopping you…
I need to study the works of cardiffpete first…
Its a fake apparently.
However I did click on Musk’s profile and found him retweeting about getting rid of the minimum wage. World’s richest man, trying to get the poorest in society to be paid even less.
I think his life will end hanging from a tree.
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This isn’t about banning X so much as a technical question. How are X.com images rendered on TAN? Maybe one for @ISMF ?
The reason I am asking is that our firm has requested that x.com is blocked due to the risk of illegal images being posted. I’m connected to our VPN and can’t bring up X, but the links still show up in TAN after around 30 seconds.
(BTW I have no problem with anything anyone here is posting. This is just a corporate thing about the risk of illegal nude and/or paedophilic images being downloaded)
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Started going down a rabbit whole, which has given me a couple of ideas to fix how twitter slows the site. 
As I understand X.com images on TAN are not loaded directly from X into the user’s browser. Discourse previews them server-side, caches them locally, and then serves the cached copy from TAN’s own domain.
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That’s interesting. I’m meant to be speaking to our security guy on Monday. That will probably ruin his weekend!
Thanks for the info.
I haven’t posted this in a while, so please excuse me;
Fuck Musk!
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He wishes
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You downed a rabbit whole?
Don’t want to get near your maw!
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Yeah I didn’t realise they had boa constrictors in NZ! 
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What’s his mother got to do with it?
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This could be accelerating:
My meeting with the security guy was interesting. It looks like X is becoming a tick list of violations of the German penal code: Insult, Defamation, Identity Theft, Sexual Harassment.
And that doesn’t even touch Strafgesetzbuch §86a which covers most of Musk’s political leanings.
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This is actually a very interesting aspect. How will countries like South Korea handle twitter with their very strickt laws regarding deepfakes and how they are treated in regards to sex crimes?
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It shouldn’t be relied upon by those who do including my politicians, media and others
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Filters or bans? Some countries already have them in place
Reminds me of a Tim Harford article i was reading this weekend where he talks about how groups social media with a particular starting bias push themselves into taking more extreme positions.
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Said it before, and I’ll say it again. The only genuinely useful thing about that Xesspit nowadays is the OSINT stuff that @Magnus finds.
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