Incident #D3368F · 17 DEC 2025notable
X's EU terms add harmful-content restrictions, extend the Irish forum clause to affiliates and add a UK complaints route
X's updated terms say users in the EU and UK may face restrictions on content that law deems 'harmful' or 'unsafe'. The EU section now extends the Irish courts and Irish law clause to X's EU, EFTA and UK affiliates and requires 'knowing' facilitation for liquidated damages. It adds a UK complaints route under the Online Safety Act 2023. The AI prompt and output wording, the jailbreaking ban, the class-action waiver for affiliates and the federal/state deadlines appear only in the non-EU (US) section of the same page.
Taken from you
- Content and accounts may be restricted under EU/UK 'harmful' or 'unsafe' content rules, not only illegal content
- Users must now also comply with laws and rules on third-party and affiliate services, and Content responsibility now covers Content 'generated, inputted, or created'.
- Irish court and law clause now extends to X's corporate affiliates as third-party beneficiaries
- Liquidated damages now apply if you 'knowingly' facilitate others, a slightly narrower trigger than before
Won back
- UK users get a stated internal complaints process and right to go to court under the Online Safety Act 2023
- Liquidated damages require knowing facilitation rather than mere facilitation
Evidence · 4 of 4 quotes matched in source
Certain jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United Kingdom, impose obligations on us to enforce against categories of content deemed by law to be harmful or unsafe+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content, including anything referenced therein+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
(iv) attempt to circumvent, manipulate, or disable systems and Services, including through "jailbreaking", “prompt engineering or injection"+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
The choice of law and forum selection provisions of this paragraph shall also extend to disputes involving our corporate affiliates based in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
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