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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop making stupid people famous!

[–] DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This behaviour isn't because he's famous it's because he's incredibly wealthy and no one has ever told him no.

[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

While this is of course true, to me part of saying him no is not giving him media attention. If his stunts didn't have the publicity they do, he might not actually do them. If people stopped caring about whatever shit he writes on Twitter then he wouldn't have a power to destroy Starlink's government deal or affect stock values.