Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past Elon Musk's rebadged Twitter, X.com, has been blocked in Indonesia as the domain was formerly used to for websites containing content deemed unsuitable, such as – ahem – adult entertainment and gambling. The director general of information and public communication at Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics ( …
Not sure if that's true, or how far back, but it seems clear that by the time Musk is done destroying Twitter, that x.com will be sold in bankruptcy and likely host porn in the future.
Anyway, Twitter has and still does host porn images/videos so if Indonesia was serious about avoiding it they would have blocked Twitter long ago.
x.com is owned by Musk personally I think? He owned it before he took over Twitter, and I don't think he's transferred ownership of it over to X Corp, and I guess he would want to protect that from any bankruptcy of the company so probably won't/
x.com is hosted by GoDaddy, whereas twitter.com is hosted by Corporation Service Company.
Even if he assigned ownership to the company that went bankrupt, I fully expect him to bid on it during the proceedings. Do you really think anyone else will bid higher for that domain name? Maybe someone will bid just to make him pay more, but he has this weird obsession with X, so he's going to keep that domain.
X is in trouble with San Francisco about a giant illuminated X they put on the top edge of their building without a permit or inspection. I'm betting they put 4 sandbags on it, gave it a firm pat (in the middle of the night when there's no wind), and said, "That's not going anywhere."
Personally, I'd avoid the street below the sign.
What's dangerous about that? Pointless, yes, but not dangerous. It's the same kind of thing as people banning entire countries because they think it will save them from attacks (which it won't, either in general or coming from attackers in that country). People have been doing things like that since the internet became a thing, and it hasn't caused any dangerous consequences so far.
Yeah, that happens already. That was my point. If an ISP did it, they'd start facing customer complaints but ISPs still do block things on occasion. Usually they're pretty simple with how they do it and circumvention is as simple as not using their DNS servers, but it wouldn't be the first time. Meanwhile, if anyone other than an ISP does it, then it's just a local network making decisions. Corporate networks routinely block lots of things they don't want employees to go to, and my network blocks plenty of ad or tracking servers, but only on this network. The systems already deal with plenty of blocking. It would be a much bigger issue if the backbone providers started blocking, but that's never going to happen. I don't see this request as anything new, though I'm still content to file it as pointless.
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"Not to be outdone, China's own restrictions on export of essential elements for manufacture of electronic components are pushing prices up – because TRADE WARS GO BOTH WAYS."
Exactly. War of any kind is a bloody and foul approach to solving differences. Unfortunately, the world is run by fools, children, and would be conquerors. :(
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