It’s about damn time!
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That was always the point. He tried to shame Twitter into giving the far-right a credible platform and in the process, accidentally comitted to buying the site.
Everything else has just been him awkwardly trying to minimise his financial losses and hide that he’s actually a dumbfuck.
Wrestle with pigs, get covered in shit, or something like that.
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How to kill a company in 3 easy steps
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Let Elon buy it
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
They really are an infinite content machine, just not thru the website
Exactly! That’s exactly how it feels!
This one?
I watched two ads just to get rickrolled.
This comment made my Internet today. 🏆
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.
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.
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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?
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?
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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.
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?
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.
He wants free speech only if he agrees with it.
He never cared about free speech, he only cared about HIS free speech
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.
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.
It almost seems like all the lessons Twitter learned and the measures they implemented where there for a reason.
These articles where all in the news back a few years ago when Twitter was growing up and now they are back where they started, just with a larger userbase and more to lose.
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Just keep calling it Twitter and campaign for other people to do the same.
Set a filter for capital ’ X ’ (with a space on either side) as well as ’ X.’ (left space + period)
Eh, it’s not that simple… There’s a windowing system on Linux, and an old punk band from LA, and a whole generation…
Also, how am I going to look for MDMA pills in the late 90s US?
Not to mention the phrase, X marks the spot.
It’s not a perfect solution, no, but it’s a solution.
Personally, none of those would hold me back, but to each their own.
Running away from the X windowing system might not be that bad though 😉
But for some stupid reason, most Linux users have nvidia, which doesn’t play well with Wayland (or X, for that matter…)
Unix Blasphemy!!
I do love X though (not the Twitter rebrand - Motif for life!!). A simple X program is/was so portable, but I guess not many people care anymore.
I still deadname it and call it Twitter. I refuse to call it X.
