X are being sued by the Irish data regulator for breaching the GDPR in processing European citizens’ data for Grok AI without an initial opt-out.
The pause is a temporary measure until they return to the Irish High Court.
It finally feels like these data vampires are being tackled even if the pace is a crawl.
Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.
Statistically it’s likely to have happened already.