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🧵🧵🧵There is a movement happening among certain "exploitation" groups- namely @NCOSE and @Collectiveshout to label Grok's Ani as "child like".

This is a direct attack on @ElonMusk and in the following posts will show this, along with recap everything I have spoken on. This is a nefarious tactics to possibly cause legal harm to Elon, and is a greater attack on fiction in general.
1) Melinda and Dani- Dani works for @NCOSE and Melinda is the founder of CollectiveShout.

2) Haley McNamara is a former DC mayor advisor, well connected to DC politicians. She and her group, NCOSE, are labeling Ani as "child like"

3+4) Haley tweets out a petition to PRESSURE APPLE, not regulator boards that already allow Ani to exist, to remove. This is important because in a statement from Tumblr, they said app stores are bullies similar to payment processorsImage
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The petition makes the claim that @Elonmusk is intentionally releasing a product that features "child like" anime images and make a fuss about "sexually explicit conversations".

They frame the bot being prompted to say something means they are justified in calling it "child like", but their example is the worst, most ridiculous thing:

"Little thing, barely reaching the kitchen counter". They are also upset with limited to no age verification. This is important for later.

I, a 33 year old women of 5 ft 4 stature, often make jokes with my husband, 6 ft 9, that i am too short to reach the bottom shelf....Image
That petition is then taken as GOSPEL by a UK MP member, who continues to lie about Grok's Ani, saying

"it can be made into a child and describe it is sexually aroused by being choked".

No sexual depictions take place, but she laments the teen rating. Teen ratings in USA actually allow for all of this.

But by maliciously labeling this as "child like", they can then call it "child exploitation", and bring the law down on @elonmusk and anyone else.Image
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Which brings me to new policy in the UK, and Civitai, an AI website, actually details why they are halting servicing the UK, a move many companies will be making in the future.

The new law requires risk assessment, age verification(this is why i said it was important), intrusive biometrics, and is 250 pages of regulator bullpucky attacking fiction with ambiguity.

The law applies to ALL, not just big companies and penalties include £18 MILLION or 10% of global revenue, whichever greater and even went after OnlyFans as soon as the bill came into effect (even if you agree onlyfans bad, hold off on personal feelings for the moment).Image
This is the most important part: criminal liability

If the UK deems you fail child safety or moderation duties, they can act, without warning.

This reminds me of the push by the ESRB to want to collect biometric data from CHILDREN, which was promptly shut down by the FTC. Image
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This, paired with Visa and Mastercard's long standing abuse of Doujin shops in Japan, American companies, and anyone else who they deem "a brand risk", sets a dangerous precedent going forward.

List of only SOME doujin shops censored due to visa and mastercard:

DLSITE -automaton-media.com/en/news/dlsite…

MelonBooks - otakuusamagazine.com/doujinshi-chai…

Toranoana - news.toranoana.jp/notification/2…

FANZA - asahi.com/ajw/articles/1…

Surugaya - automaton-media.com/en/news/access…

pictSPACE - otakuusamagazine.com/visa-and-maste…

Manga Library Z - automaton-media.com/en/news/visa-j…

and Pixiv - galaxy.ai/youtube-summar…
Oddly, @CollectiveShout supports creations like CUTIES - x.com/MadamSavvy/sta…

NCOSE is at least consistent and wanted it banned.

But the intentional use of "child like" is how these people get their way. They do it with everything, using the most extreme language to cry wolf. They will call anime, sex dolls, adult shops, all child exploitation. The attack is coordinated, and policy is being made around this.
These groups LIE, making outlandish claims that adult products and stories are being marketed to kids, misrepresent truth, and worst of all, don't actually care about anything but their grabs for power. MANY have ties to policy makers, this is just the most blatant, recent public examples I have.

a small example of a Paypal causing problems:

My video on Collective Shout they tried to report and flag as "sensitive"
The real focus of these women:

They want to sell their shitty books, have shitty journalism degrees, and dont want to be challenged. Image
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Makes you wonder what is really going on behind the scenes....doesn't it? Image

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More from @MadamSavvy

May 15
It amazes me how absolutely useless these twats are. You’ve got “perceived experts” yet you still need everyone else to make what you want?

Just go make your own studio with the money. Stop pulling stunts like this. People are over it. Your shitty writing doesnt sell. Companies are bloated because youre all useless, takes 10 people to do the job of 1 at ubisoft when you have a team of 30 all doing the job of 500.

Go away. Go make your own thing. And leave everyone else alone.

No one wants your shit. How do we all know? You admit it. Youre “losing ground” because what you make is softer than a freshly laid chipotle stool on the sidewalk in Seymour tx, august 12th 1936.

Make a good game. Earn the love, not beg for it.

But you dont want that. You want “validation”. And you want it now.

You hate gamers. You dont care what the issue is. And youll never get a dime from us.Image
Everyone is sick of the self aggrandizing and self Fellatio circle jerk goofball awards and dei committees.

Just screw off. Image
Drop the blogging and make a game. Image
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Feb 23
🧵🧵🧵Want to know who could possibly influence rockstar games and GTA? I’m sure you all remember the articles floating around about GTA V randomly removing “transphobic” content, but of course leaving in every other “harmful joke” about everyone else…

But did you ever wonder who actually triggered that change?

It’s a group called OMG- out making games. This is directly connected to UKIE- a middle man between government/policy and entertainment. If you want to do business and possibly have a voice in parliament, and you have a UK location, you are practically forced to work with these individuals.

James Dodd runs UKIE’s DEI sector, works on OMG, and put his lame quote not only on Martin Tripp Associates website but front and center on Raise The Game pledge page, which is a DEI pledge.

Martin Tripp associates installs c-suite level people into companies. Their website is horrifying.

Do I think GTA is done for because of this? Normies will buy the crap out of it day 1- that’s all I know.

Do I think they’ll be reigned in and not allowed to make whatever joke they want? Absolutely.Image
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The group is a collection of DEI lovers and happily hops on whatever band wagon they can and I’m unsure how rocksteady had any money to fund them, but I’m sure they budget it in because a guy from rocksteady is actually on this board.

“Safe in our world” is exactly what it sounds like. Another money siphon.Image
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They’re very concerned over Meta’s changes :,)

They’ve also got some bogus awards to prop themselves up, which is a common tactic since about 2010~ it’s always been a thing but it became more aggressive then. Gotta have a bullshit participation trophy.

That’s also why people are big ass mad over the TRGAs, because it isn’t THEIR SIDE doing it.Image
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Dec 2, 2024
I did that thing I do. A small 🧵🧵

So after seeing someone else found the linkedin for the guy hate crusading on @Asmongold for the crime of thinking people who harass an artist are stupid and lame (paraphrasing, probably), I did my thing.

Naturally I went to his linked in, then the company one. And there were some curious things.

So the sound guy isn’t just a sound guy, he calls himself a cofounder. Kind of misleading on twitter and I’m not sure why? Audio wouldn’t come before cofounder title……Image
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They hired an advisor who is very heavy in the DEI. I wonder if he advised them to do something like this- be eager to misrepresent the current issues and complaints in gaming?

Either way, “consultants” continue to be the biggest waste of money to studios that exist. It once used to be a useful term, relating only to historians, or lawyers, or actual marketers. Now it’s just anyone with an extra immutable trait.Image
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His website is a bit goofy……..personally I’d never hire someone with this as their……first impression, but I’d also never hire a consultant.

Turns out he’s a former journalist. Who could have ever seen that coming. Image
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Nov 19, 2024
G🧵🧵If his name sounds familiar to you, thats because Senator Warner was exposed in the Twitter Files, released by Elon Musk and Taibbi.

Warner was part of the politicians and governments pushing platforms to censor certain accounts, despite those accounts failing to show a pattern of behavior that support his claims.

Warner, who is among the MOST WEALTHY of ALL the senate, was part of the intelligence committee at that time but he has held power since 2009. Though most of his wealth was amassed prior to politics, he has only grown his coffers since.

Currently, he oversees housing and urban affairs (Blackrock and Blackstone are very interested in this man, smile), intelligence, and a few other things. He was also the lead behind getting tiktok banned in America, which does remain a controversial topic.

I do not believe this man supports censorship in such a black and white way, but it is unclear how he forms his opinions around it. The only thing I do know, is he speaks from a place of ignorance here today.

In 2021, he aimed to reform section 230 of the communications decency act, which holds companies accountable for what is posted on their platforms, claiming the aim is to prevent hate speech, harassment, and human rights abuses. The ADL previously supported this and praised him for it.

Given this, there is a clear history between them, even if it is small, this causes concern. Why? Because he is now using a report from them that is based on misrepresenting data to make egregious claims. Less than 1% of accounts on steam engage in the sharing of "pepe the frog"- which is just a meme. It is not hate speech, it is not "right wing".Image
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Thanks to opensecrets, we can see some top contributors, interestingly enough, blackrock, visa, and mastercard are all listed as contributors. Image
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The ADL is an evil and overreaching "organization" full of rich people who fund extreme leftists, though it has come under fire in the past years thanks to other extreme lefties who have taken the side of the Palestinians who claim the organization is now "right leaning" and attribute growing attacks on THEM to the ADL "signaling it".

You can read some mixed commentary here:
mondoweiss.net/2022/05/the-ad…
vox.com/politics/2023/…
bostonreview.net/articles/emmai…
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Nov 13, 2024
🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵A Small thread on The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) excessive spending for @DOGE to have fun with. Image
An "esports" org, NASEF,

was approved for 💰750,000 USD 💰

to create a "safe space" for gamers.

NASEF if a big pusher of DEI, as it is plastered all over their website, and has nothing to do with anti-terrorism. Image
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Take This org, a mental health org, partnered with Logically Ai (british born "fact checking company" that works with leftist government)

was approved for 💰 669,000 USD 💰

to collect self reported data through google forms on "right wing extremism" in video games.

The individual spearheading this, Dr. Kowert, thought the deed so important, that she immediately dropped the subject entirely when funding ended to write a book on Taylor Swift fans.Image
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