Exclusive: Apple to pause advertising on X after Musk backs antisemitic post : technology

[+] lemmus@lemmy.world 206 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Stop X permanently. The lawsuits are massing up, and the value of the business has nearly dropped such that the $13bn debt is bigger than it. They had little hope of paying even the interest before Musk started intentionally tanking their revenue. He knows that the business will never have to pay up, hell they're not even paying rent on their offices, and he'll get away with the crime Scott free because it's a limited liability company.

And make no mistake, that was the plan all along. Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public good, and on the way out see what controversial actions they can get away with. That way any site that comes to fill the void can do the same. His old mate Peter Thiel will likely be pleased, along with a bunch of other unscrupulous people.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public

It's amazing to me how much people have rewritten history since musk took over. Twitter was always shit. It's worse now, yeah. A lot worse. But it's like taking a shit on a smaller pile of shit. All this talk about how it was a real boon for humanity and so important it should be regulated as a utility is equal parts idiotic and hilarious.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's shit, but it had significant uses. Namely, getting breaking news from trusted journalists, and speaking directly to businesses for consumer support when other methods typically went unanswered.

That's not to mention the Arab Spring. Sure, significant change that people had hoped for didn't follow through, but it still spooked them enough that one of the incumbent leaders helped buy the website to undermine it.

Also, when you compare it to Facebook it certainly was better. Even reddit was better, then followed it down the drain.

[–] Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I get the feeling (I wouldn't really know, haven't been there in months) that Reddit is still significantly better. Sure, it's worse now, but it still has active communities on pretty much any topic imaginable. Lemmy is on its way, but won't be there for a few years I think.

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I 100% agree it was shit. Sometimes though, that shit fertilized real growth.

That said, lesson shouldn't be, "we need twitter." It should be, let's populate similar platforms so we can have this resource in the future.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

served the public good

Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn't any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

You could say the same about reddit in a large part. 4chan was a free home, Twitter was a megaphone, but reddit really encouraged the infestation to gestate.

Also it wasn't r/trump, but r/the_Donald, as well as all the spin off astroturfed subs.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't disagree this is a possibility, but I have yet to hear someone clearly articulate why poopoobrain over there would do something so dumb intentionally.

I find it so much more compelling that he's just a divorce-brained middle-aged dumbass with a megaphone and billions to dig his own grave. That he was forced to buy Twitter after waving his dick around in public and has been trying to save his reputation ever since by pretending that it's all a part of his plan to amplify the right voices to 'save humanity'.

I'm not saying he isn't brain-broken enough to believe it himself, but I don't think he ever really had a plan. I think he's a sad, lonely billionaire going through the worlds biggest mid-life crisis.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

but I have yet to hear someone clearly articulate why poopoobrain over there would do something so dumb intentionally.

Because it distracts from the fact that leveraged buyouts are almost always meant to kill the business in the long run, and such distraction reduces the chance of regulation against the practice. People don't think Twitter is failing because it had $13bn of debt it could never afford, they think it's failing because Musk is a poor businessman. That isn't to say Musk is a great businessman acting like a fool, rather, he is a clown acting like a fool.

I think if Musk had made a genuine effort to buy Twitter there wouldn't have been so much debt saddled onto the business. Musk was forced to make the purchase, but the nature of the purchase has subsequently been tailored into sinking the ship. One of the first things they did was stop paying rent - if this wasn't a sign of a business doomed to failure I don't know what is. The business will die a death, and everyone it owes money to will be left fighting over the ashes.

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[–] sour@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

website formerly known as twitter*

[+] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure users have mostly left.

Companies and public figures keep using it, because for most of them it's just some intern or bot that was posting.

It takes a while for social media to finally die because of that. They'll just stumble on like a zombie for like a decade.

The only way it'll happen faster, is if people loudly boycott anyone that's still using it. But with 99% of social media sucking ass, there's not really a place to do it from where companies and public figures will hear it.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, there are sadly a whole lot of users still on it.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's even a bunch of hardcore right wingers praising it in its new form.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't insult children like that, kids would have made way better and funnier decisions lmao

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm still there because I like to know what the crazies think about stuff. It's still entertaining in its own way. For example, did you know there are business experts on Twitter even smarter than Tim Cook? It's true...

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

Scott Adams needs to hide away in his Dilbert shaped house, never to be heard from again.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Tim Cook must be on vacation! I know this because The Sacred Man Himself could never do such horrible thing!

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The only part I hate is that real people have and will lose their jobs due to 1 person that treats this entire situation like a kids game.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The problem I see that it is "pause", not "quit".

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

"Wait until it dies down, then go back to selling Macbooks to the Nazis."

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 42 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Why just pause

[–] Neato@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago

Waiting for the latest Nazi shit to blow over.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

So they can start advertising on it again in two weeks when people aren't paying as much attention again, duh. Just like when all those corporations stopped donating to insurrectionist Republicans, for about three seconds.

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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 42 points 2 years ago

"Exclusive", at least the forth version of this story I've seen today.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Better late than never I guess

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

"pause"

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

Musk being an utter waste of skin isn't an exclusive.

[–] guywithoutaname@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

When will any of these companies realize that they need to leave forever?

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

If Apple really wanted to send a message, they would suspend the Twitter App (I can’t bring myself to call it by the stupid CyberTruck name) from the App Store.

Maybe after another 11 months of this…

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[–] seumadruga@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The worst thing is reading news with X in the middle of the sentences, it looks like a math problem.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

To solve for X we must cancel it out.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What was the original tweet that he said he agreed with? I'd prefer to judge for myself.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay.

Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.

You want truth said to your face, there it is.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have no idea what he's on about. Jews have been pushing "dialectical hatred"? Does he even know what "dialectic" means?

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago

I was about to defend the usage of the word dialectical here but then remembered nazis can get fucked

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[–] boem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

About bloody time.

[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

apple and musk can both go fuck themselves

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