[Festro]

This further exposes just how pointless and ill-thought out the Online Safety Act was in the UK. It does nothing to actually limit harm at the source, and empower the UK's public body's to take immediate action.

Ironic that the minister who spearheaded that awful bill (Peter Kyle) as Tech minister is now being the government spokesperson for this debacle as Business Minister. The UK needs someone who knows how tech and business works to tackle this, and that's not Peter Kyle.

A platform suspension in the UK should have been swift, with clear terms for how X can be reinstated. As much as it appears Musk is doubling down on letting Grok produce CSAM as some form of free speech, the UK government should treat it as a limited breach or bug that the vendor needs to resolve, whilst taking action to block the site causing harm until they've fixed it.

Letting X and Grok continue to do harm, and get free PR, is just the worst case scenario for all involved.

[roryirvine]

The draft Online Safety Bill was first published in 2021, was substantially re-written and re-introduced in early 2022, was amended over the course of the next 18 months, and eventually passed into law as the Online Safety Act in October 2023.

Peter Kyle was in opposition until July 2024, so how could he have spearheaded it?

[Festro]

Because he implemented it under his tenure in July 2025. He didn't come up with it, he spearheaded its actual implementation. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[chrisjj]

The OSA very much does empower action e.g. against images of extreme sexual violence and extreme pornography.

It does not empower platform suspension for bikinification.

And there's as yet no substantiation of your claim Grok produces CSAM.