Elon Musk's X.com blocked due to porn laws

Elon Musk's x.com is expected to become Twitter's new online identity. Photo: Anadolu agency.

Chaotic rebranding of Elon Musk. Twitter faces another stumbling block after it was revealed that its new X web domain was blocked in parts of Asia under anti-pornography laws.

Indonesia banned access to x.com 270 millions of people in the country on Tuesday.

Officers in the Muslim-majority country said the domain was previously linked to gambling and pornography.

The website has remained empty for the past six years, save for a single x .

Prior to that, it was a showcase for PayPal and eBay services intended for operators of online stores not related to gambling or pornography.

After rebranding Twitter to X this week, the site's billionaire owner redirected x.com to redirect visitors to Twitter.

X.com is expected to become a social networking site. a new identity on the Internet.

Usman Kansong, director of the country's Ministry of Communications, said on Tuesday that he is waiting for a response from the Musk-owned company confirming that the domain will be used by Twitter.

A rebrand at the company's San Francisco headquarters also went awry after police stepped in on Monday to stop workers tearing down a Twitter sign.

Officers said Twitter didn't apply for the right permissions to block sidewalk near the building.

< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/22a9e8f35def64f682532bfea34b41e9.jpg" />Twitter headquarters rebranding remains unfinished after police intervention. Photo: Anadolu agency.

Meanwhile, a former Twitter executive accused Musk of lacking the empathy to make the social networking site a success.

Esther Crawford, who once went viral after boasting about sleeping in the Twitter office, to provide the new features required by Mr. Musk, said the CEO «requires a different type of social-emotional intelligence.»

«wrote Ms. Crawford, who was director of product management until she was fired earlier this year.

«His courage, passion and storytelling are inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful.»< /p>

Before she was fired, Ms. Crawford's team was responsible for introducing online payment capabilities to Twitter.

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Mr. Musk wants to turn Twitter into a universal application, roughly similar to Chinese WeChat, which works in a similar way.