• @[email protected]
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    4810 months ago

    Sounds to me like all advertisers should just assume that on Xitter, their ads will show alongside Nazi/Alt-Right/Hateful content. GARM, the project that Elmo just killed, used to inform them when that sort of thing happened. So with the warning system down, Ad companies should revert to a fail-safe state and abandon the platform completely.

    And the rest of us should ABSOLUTELY make a habit of blasting out screenshots of ads next to heinous shit, and ask the company why they support that kind of content.

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      And the rest of us should ABSOLUTELY make a habit of blasting out screenshots

      Good idea, but stopping using xitter completely would be even better.

    • @[email protected]
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      1810 months ago

      And the rest of us should ABSOLUTELY make a habit of blasting out screenshots of ads next to heinous shit, and ask the company why they support that kind of content.

      This is the way

  • @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    On the one hand I hate Elon Musk. On the other hand I also hate advertisement.

    So… win / win?

    • @[email protected]
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      810 months ago

      Lose/lose situation here unfortunately.

      Basically he threw a fit. It worked.

      It affected something that it should not have.

    • YeetPics
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      1810 months ago

      Idk, advertisers didn’t get shut down, a group promoting best practices in advertising got shut down.

      You’re about to dislike ads even more.

  • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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    310 months ago

    Good. They don’t get to fucking bully whoever they want.

    Elon didn’t like their shit, and called them on it.

    And they fucking cried and gave up, right away. lmao

    • katy ✨
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      810 months ago

      you hate people bullying people yet you love elon bullying a non profit into silence?

      also this isn’t going to bring advertisers to twitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      A multi-billion dollar social media company sued an ad industry group that was trying to have help companies have some kind of brand safety standards to prevent a company’s ads from appearing next to objectionable content. They reportedly had two full-time staff members. This isn’t some big win, it’s bullying itself.

    • lazynooblet
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      I don’t get it. Elon didn’t win a thing, he lost harder.

      He complained advertisers were banding together and boycotting his platform. He starts a frivolous lawsuit.

      So now even more advertisers are boycotting his platform.

      • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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        110 months ago

        And in his mind, he thinks he won, because the advertiser platform dropped out.

        His ego is boosted. It’s not about money lost.

    • androogee (they/she)
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      3710 months ago

      Hey

      You aren’t advertising with me. Stop bullying me and give me money.

      If you don’t give me money right now, you’re bullying me.

      • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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        210 months ago

        Yep, the irony of two bullies calling each other bullies is awesome to watch!

        But Elon won, cuz the other side shut down quick! lmao

        • androogee (they/she)
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          2810 months ago

          What did he win? They aren’t going to resume advertising with him. They got out of the lawsuit without having to pay lawyers or change their behavior. What did he win?

          • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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            So do you honestly think he just wanted their money?

            You don’t think that Elon Musk is over there laughing because they dropped the lawsuit, and thinking that he’s top dog cuz they went away?

            Have you seen his ego?

            I mean, I like Elon, but he’s def a slave to his ego. I still like him, but come on…lol

            He started a legal fight with someone, they backed down. Money losses or not, he definitely won. Because they dropped.

            And he is grinning.

            I mean, I def would prefer money. But I don’t think that’s always his goal.

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              If a stupid person being impressed by himself counted as “winning,” there’d be a whole lot more winners out there.

              But it doesn’t.

              • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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                110 months ago

                And he has more money than you or I or anyone we will ever know.

                So yeah, dude, he’s winning at something. Even if you don’t like him.

                He’s richer than most of us can dream.

              • Socialist Mormon Satanist
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                110 months ago

                Because he has the balls to do what he wants. Even when all you guys scream and cry.

                Regardless of whether you like him or hate him, he works hard, gets shit done. Even if you don’t like it.

                Now having said that, I also don’t give a shit if he loses it all. I admire him, but I don’t worship him.

                And I fucking LOVE what he did with Twitter. Liberals cry censorship now that it doesn’t always favor them on the platform, but they laughed when republicans cried censorship on the old twitter.

                By the way, censorship sucks regardless of platform. I just find it laughingly ironic how you all cry now, but where laughing then.

                In other words, you think it’s fine to censor republican stuff. But get fucking mad when democrat stuff gets censored.

                You all were doing the same fucking thing!

                • @[email protected]
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                  710 months ago

                  Regardless of whether you like him or hate him, he works hard, gets shit done. Even if you don’t like it.

                  The guy is terminally online talking shit on xitter all day how the fuck he works hard?

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      how do you mean? they just “hydra’d” on him. If he wants to sue them now for leaving xitter he will have to go after them individually.

  • @[email protected]
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    7110 months ago

    He literally bullied a non-profit organisation set in the world to use advertisement money responsible into ceasing operations.

    Loss for the world once again, and the article even says that Republicans celebrated. That country is sick.

    • @[email protected]
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      2510 months ago

      It definitely is, but they filed in Texas which doesn’t have anti-SLAPP laws for federal cases

  • @[email protected]
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    10710 months ago

    Musk: starts allowing Nazi shit on Xitter

    Advertiisers: Hey, we don’t like Nazi shit. We might stop advertising if that keeps happening.

    Musk: Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.

    Advertisers: stop doing business with the guy who told them to go fuck themselves

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    Today, the House Judiciary GOP’s official account on X called GARM being discontinued a “big win for the First Amendment” and a “big win for oversight.” X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.

    It’s just opposite day? We just say whatever is the opposite of what’s true?

    • Billiam
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      310 months ago

      You know the “O” in “GOP” stands for “opposition” right?

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        I’m partial to Gaslight Obstruct Project. This is probably somewhere in “gaslight” as in “this is a good thing! You must be crazy to think this is bad, everyone says this is a good thing.”

    • @[email protected]
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      4110 months ago

      Beating my enemies into submission = A big win for Freedom and Liberty

      The first amendment is simply when conservatives get what they want.

    • @[email protected]
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      1810 months ago

      We really don’t say it enough, but fuck Linda for being a hollow, complicit piece of shit human.

  • @[email protected]
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    Even if this group shuts down completely, all this does is waste twitter’s money while it also tells advertisers to stay the fuck away from ever do any business on Twitter.

    • vvvvan
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      1210 months ago

      I read this similarly. Most significantly, advertisers in the group are probably less likely to spend on tweeter now. The complete opposite of Elen’s goal. The advertisers simply “deleted” the group (not any actual ad agencies), because it was calculated to cost the least. The group, GARM, was an attempt to collectively manage harm to their brands, which they will obviously continue to do in other ways.

    • @[email protected]
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      2510 months ago

      And now he has to sue the advertisers individually if he wants to continue this idiotic plan. That’ll surely convince people to spend money on X

  • HubertManne
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    I heard the new club is going to be called thenoelons and Elon Lindenstrauss is going to be a member.

  • @[email protected]
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    Note to myself: Whenever I do contracts or somehow being responsible, I‘ll put a proxy company in between. If things go bad, I just shut down that responsible proxy and am out of duty.

    Just an interesting observation about business behavior.

  • @[email protected]
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    1510 months ago

    They are getting all this great free press about why to avoid Musk, must have figured their job is done.

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    4210 months ago

    I feel like this will only hurt him in the long term, advertisers in general are probably more likely to avoid X in the future. I know I would.