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And no one but Musk is the least bit surprised by the catastrophic failure of Twitter.
Yea see… they (corporations) prefer their money is made next to white supremacy less loudly. That’s all.
That’s why they just suspended ads, not terminated ad buying.
How to kill a company in 3 easy steps
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Let Elon buy it
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???
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Company destroyed
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Feels more like a 300 cuts
How to kill a company in 300 easy cuts
shouldn’t have fired the brand safety team
I mean, in all reality, this could be why he fired the brand safety team. He’s had aspirations of burying himself with X for decades.
All these news about X going to shit feels like that gif of the truck driving towards the pole but constantly cutting before the impact
This one?
I watched two ads just to get rickrolled.
This comment made my Internet today. 🏆
Get Sync for Lemmy. Never get rickrolled again!
Sync is nice but I’m on ios. Currently using Avelon and it shows link previews, but only for the site.
It still shocks me every time I encounter people browsing the internet without an ad blocker. Just why?
How would my mom go about easily blocking YouTube ads on her iPhone?
Install AdGuard pro and replace YouTube app with a shortcut to open YouTube in Safari. Adblockers can’t block ads in the app but can in Safari.
This is the way.
She wouldn’t, that’s why she bought an iPhone, because “it just works!”.
So then it really shouldn’t be too shocking for the person I replied to.
im presuming not many mothers who dont understand the difference between an app and a webpage are on lemmy.
Yeah I got rickrolled right away.
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Imagine getting Rick rolled by a fucking bot.
And somehow you’re scoring downvotes.
Are the bots offended and downvoting now?
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Wouldn’t it have been amazing if you linked to the same video again to troll everyone, and I comment to confirm that it is the right video while the whole time it is not?
They really are an infinite content machine, just not thru the website
Exactly! That’s exactly how it feels!
That’s what happens when you hang out at a Nazi bar…
Can’t see any company, let alone something family friendly being remotely okay with any of this. Who wants to pay to be right next to Nazi content besides maybe MyPillow?
Is this news to anyone? Elon Musk is a literal Nazi. Every dollar going there supports fascism. I don’t get how you can have such a high profile person who is like “Hey, I’m a Nazi, and I sell Nazi shit!” and still be surprised.
I mean, I get that he’s a dick, but a nazi? Seriously?
He’s not a Nazi, just someone who allows Nazis on his website, reposts and agrees with their beliefs.
So, because he’s not actively censoring their views, that means he agrees with them?
Hmm.
Did you miss the part where he reposts them to signify agreement?
Which posts are these?
Yes. The Nazis are back
What has he done or said that makes him a “nazi”, in your view?
Kinda ironic that you posted this because you couldn’t back up your opinion with even one tweet.
You don’t look at usernames.
As the old saying goes- If you have 10 people and 1 nazi sitting at a dinner table and willingly eating together, you have 11 Nazis.
He sits at his Twitter dinner table with a lot of Nazis and is absolutely willing to do so.
Does this line of thinking apply to all the other groups also on twitter?
That they’re also associating with Nazis? Yes. They need to stop.
Funny. I meant, does this also mean Musk agrees with every single viewpoint expressed on the platform, because he allows their presence?
Furthermore, one organization that had ads placed on this content claimed that it wasn’t an X advertiser at all. In a statement provided to CNN, University of Maryland’s associate athletic director told the outlet that Maryland Football hasn’t run a paid ad campaign on X since 2021.
Interesting snippet. It would be very interesting to know how and why that happened.
Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.
No idea. It is a kind of defamation but I think you’d struggle to prove it. You could, however, get shedloads of free publicity by banging on about it for clickbait.
If a small portion of ads keep repeating, it’d show the shallow pool of advertisers left on the website.
That or there’s no one at the helm for advertising.
Either way, looks incredibly shabby.
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He wanted free speech with no censorship. I get it, but he also wants to make a profit. So this is was happens, I hope him and the almighty shareholders are ok with it.
Well - 79% of ‘the almighty shareholders’ is Elon Musk, and I somehow get the impression that as long as he is convinced that he’s doing exactly the right things nothing will change. The next biggest stakeholders are Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%), Oracle founder Larry Ellison (3.0%), Jack Dorsey (3.0%), Sequoia Capital (2.4%), and Vy Capital (2.1%) - and they’ve all been publicly silent on the topic of twitter self destruction - I think they’ve transitioned into train-wreck mode where they are in such disbelief about what they are witnessing that they aren’t able to articulate opinions about it.
Dorsey agrees with Musk on this stuff. He has said before that he didn’t want to ban Trump after J6 and that he was against banning Nazi accounts, but did it because it was a public company, and they kinda had to.
Now he and his buddies are trying to roll out their own social media protocol, bluesky, which is built specifically to not allow Nazis to be banned.
Maybe they are all shorting it big in their alt accounts because they know that the SEC fines will be trivial next to the money they will make. Also, that not a single one of them would see the inside of a court room.
Pretty sure you can’t short a private company. It has to be traded on a public exchange to short sell it.
I didn’t realize that they delisted it after he bought it.
He didn’t want any of that.
He never cared about free speech, he only cared about HIS free speech
He wants free speech only if he agrees with it.
It seems very charitable to say he sincerly cares about free speech given his hindering and sliencing of others.
I am still entirely convinced that the only reason he bought Twitter in the first place is because of this: https://www.businessinsider.com/student-who-tracks-elon-musk-jet-launching-own-website-2023-2
Personally I think he was attempting a pump and dump and got caught out by the market downturn that hit just after he brought in.
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Wrestle with pigs, get covered in shit, or something like that.
- Buy unprofitable application
- Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
- It’s now less profitable than before.
- ???
- ???
- Profit
I’ve one the steps is, “use the letter X SOMEHOW, so people won’t laugh at you and will realize you are so cool finally”
Last step is selling it to yahoo!
Nah, it’s selling to Yahoo, then getting your parent company acquired by Verizon, then having Verizon spin your parent company off again.
Hold on, maybe I’ve figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!
Step 4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.) Step 5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)
But but but there were good people on both sides Disney!
