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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,…::undefined
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Wow! The genius of the man. It walks the fine line between infantile and stupid.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The delayed websites included X’s online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack, as well as the Reuters wire service and the Times.
On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero.
Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for the Times, said in a statement that the news outlet has “made similar observations of our own” about the systemic delays and “not received any explanation from the platform about this move.”
“While we don’t know the rationale behind the application of this time delay, we would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons,” he said.
“Writers cannot build sustainable businesses if their connection to their audience depends on unreliable platforms that have proven they are willing to make changes that are hostile to the people who use them.”
Links to Facebook, Instagram and the new microblogging service Threads were all throttled; all three are owned by Meta, whose founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg has been locked in an ongoing online feud with Musk over not-yet-existent plans for a mixed-martial-arts fight.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Muuuhaha… the Elon child :-)
Petulant melon husk at it again.
No time to fight that ginger robot when you’re fighting the urge to ruin everything around you.
it’s just baby throwing his daily “look at meeeee!” tantrum.
it’ll pass when someone changes his diaper and gives him his binkie.
edit: oh, hey, look at that:
But he said he’s a free speech absolutest! How could this be? /s
If only he’d kept his mouth shut he’d probably be worth another 100billion. He reminds me of all the edge lords on 4chan, except with the unfortunate fact the media keeps reporting the dumb shit be says.
He said free speech, not timely speech /s
He just wants to say the n word.
“I’m African, so I can say it”
-elun muX
X aka Twitter has not been contacted for comment because it is known to only send a poop emoji in reply to media queries.
Free speech my ass…
“Free speech for me"
“but not for thee”
Mhm and thats the second thing in your ass
At first I was confused, took me awhile to see the username. Been awhile since I’ve had to check for those haha
it’s fun to watch it burn
This is a person who’s mission, every day, is how to make the world shittier for everyone. He asks himself, over his breakfast of Cap’n Crunch and a juice box, ‘how can I fuck things up today?’
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I’m so sorry.
Same
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There’s Elon Musk spam on this community every day. Can we stop doing the billionaire’s PR for him?
Downvote this garbage.
While I agree, it’s good to know these ridiculous actions he takes. It’s not like it’s positive for him
Musk operates on the “There is no such thing as bad publicity model”. He doesn’t care if the news is bad or good so long as his name / businesses are in the 24-hour news cycle. It’s stupid, but he gets idiots to bring him more attention.
He doesn’t care, yet he’s suing an organization for reporting news on content on his website.
I think you need to check your facts.
Your example fits into the ‘any publicity is good publicity’ mindset too, fyi.
This is %100 wrong when your main source of revenue is advertising. Advertisers very much care about bad press.
Edit: How relevant - https://lemmy.world/post/3325197
Elon zucc cagefight bs is pointless muskspam. This is not
Here’s a genius idea: block the content or ignore it.
If 1/2 the clowns that endlessly post anti-Twitter/anti-Musk stories would just STOP USING TWITTER, the entire site would collapse. Sick of seeing that asswipe’s name, but I’m not on his goddamn platform. I don’t drive his shitty cars. I won’t fawn over every goddamn thing he does.
How much of an absolute douche do you have to be to make Zuck look good in comparison?!
You claim you hate the guy, but the fact that you have a Twitter account proves that was a lie.
Why are so many people still using Twitter, what will it take for people to leave? Musk could probably charge $10 per tweet and bunch of people would be fine with that.
The removal of the capability to make money on it as a platform.
Honestly, I’m constantly asking this question regarding most social media platforms. What will it take for people to stop using platforms they don’t like? It’s not just the support, it’s the actual monetary value of their interactions with those platforms – you’re handing those companies money by utilizing their “free” platforms. I teach online undergrad courses in mass communication, visual literacy, etc. Students talk about their use of social media platforms and many complain that they don’t even like them or don’t like their policies. When I ask them why they continue to use these platforms they don’t like, they say it’s easier to keep in contact with grandma, or military member, or someone overseas (or similar response).
Is call, text, and email not covering those individual communications? Are there not other formats that could be used instead of platforms that you don’t like? It’s much deeper than just that “simple” question. For many, it questions their idea of how culture and society. Especially younger people, who grew up with social media all of their lives, it’s difficult to picture an existence without it, to live with the “FOMO” (fear of missing out), etc.
It’s honestly a really interesting topic, and it will be necessary to question our idea of culture and what’s “normal” when it comes to social media usage.
Honestly with how fast threads, brand new, was able to jump into this compared to the growth of mastodon, I’m convinced the only thing that can convince most people to stop using a corperate bloated social media site from hell is a new, slightly less bloated (so far) corperate social media site from hell.
Twitter won’t die all the way until we have something else we want to die
People will never accept that part of the problem is themselves.
Hell, even I still use Twitter sometimes. I admit I am part of the problem. Other people won’t at least try to be honest about it.
Then they complain. That just shows that they’re not actually upset at the existence of sites like Twitter, they’re just upset they’re not the ones running them.
The vast majority of human beings in this country are so toxic.
Considering the company is now, according to the CEO, close to break-even and slowly beginning to bring back advertisers and anticipating profitability in Q1 '24, I think they’re going to be around for a while longer.
Beyond that element, I believe that Musk wants control of the company at least until/through the next presidential election, so X/Twitter probably isn’t going anywhere in the near future.
As far as people not using it, I think those that were going to leave have left already, so I don’t anticipate a huge exodus.
The same reason 2016 happened. Lots of mentally broken people in this country. Just watched a manager, old guy, at work, go off to another old co-worker about “did you hear about what they’re doing to skittles? With the fucking trans colors!?” knuckle dragging rabble rabble THEY WERE ALREADY A RAINBOW.
There are so many other valid arguements against skittles (my favorite candy). Idk whether to facepalm or guffaw that fucking skittles are now on the map to fight against.
I’m sorry but which developer implements such dark patterns? I mean you have something called work ethic, you don’t implement shit like that…
If you’re on a work visa and you don’t want to get deported then you do what daddy Elon tells you.
some with integrity don’t…
And they’ve been gone for quite a while now.
It’s easy to talk about integrity when you’re not in that position.
I was in this position, no other job in sight, no safety net, nothing.
I worked as an lead designer for a big german company and was asked by the head of ux/ui to design an interface to actively trick users and I refused to do it and came up with an alternative. I was yelled at for not doing my job and asked again to do “my fucking work”. I went to my laptop, printet out my resignation papers, handed it over to the ceo and left the building…sure the next 1 and half months were pretty fucky but that’s another story.
In that same week a I had a job interview with another company, went there for a get to know day and happily signed my contract a week later and I have been with this company for 4 years now, moved my way up to head of design and I’m just happy.
Do you understand how fucking convoluted and bureaucratically insane the US H1B visa system is?
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You missed the part where you’re immediately deported after resigning.
(a) survival bias (b) don’t take credit for what you did, you’re not a highly moral hero, it’s just how chemistry in your brain works; it’s perfectly normal to be egoistic, take care of yourself and not quit from the day 1 just because you don’t like what your boss asked you to do.
And then everyone clapped
okay got the meta, you are not allowed to post your story if you were in such a situation.
I think we’re done here then.
Narrator: “He, in fact, did not get the meta.”
