• @AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    752 years ago

    I got curious about just how bad said Nazi content is, and managed to find an article with some screenshots: https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/x-suspends-pro-hitler-account-after-brands-paused-ads/

    Spoiler: very Nazi.

    So it’s not just Nazi-compatible ideas. It’s straight out Nazi symbolism.

    I really don’t get these people - even if you believe the Nazis were right, you know they are the most hated historical faction in the world. Wouldn’t it be better to advocate their ideas without explicitly associating yourself with them, just to avoid the (completely justified) knee-jerk reaction?

  • @Fpsfrank85@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    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.

    • Phoenixz
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      162 years ago

      He never cared about free speech, he only cared about HIS free speech

    • @krayj@sh.itjust.works
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      142 years ago

      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.

      • @Adalast@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        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.

      • TurtleJoe
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        52 years ago

        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.

    • @tabular@lemmy.world
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      372 years ago

      It seems very charitable to say he sincerly cares about free speech given his hindering and sliencing of others.

    • Meldroc
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      12 years ago

      He wants free speech only if he agrees with it.

    • @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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      42 years ago

      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.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      22 years ago

      Couldn’t block them in real life in the 30s and 40s, so he’s just being true to history.

  • nLuLukna
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    902 years ago
    1. Buy unprofitable application
    2. Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
    3. It’s now less profitable than before.
    4. ???
    5. ???
    6. Profit
    • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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      82 years ago

      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”

      • @droans@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        Nah, it’s selling to Yahoo, then getting your parent company acquired by Verizon, then having Verizon spin your parent company off again.

    • vanontom
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      2 years ago

      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.)

  • Obinice
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    122 years ago

    If you’re advertising on Twitter in 2023 and your target audience isn’t Nazis, what are you doing? 😅

  • @30mag@lemmy.world
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    352 years ago

    I wish they hadn’t change the name. It was much easier to keep bullshit I do not care about out of my newsfeed when it was called twitter.

    • Venia Silente
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      92 years ago

      Just keep calling it Twitter and campaign for other people to do the same.

      • @Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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        192 years ago

        Eh, it’s not that simple… There’s a windowing system on Linux, and an old punk band from LA, and a whole generation…

        • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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          12 years ago

          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.

        • LiveLM
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          82 years ago

          Running away from the X windowing system might not be that bad though 😉

          • @danielton@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            But for some stupid reason, most Linux users have nvidia, which doesn’t play well with Wayland (or X, for that matter…)

          • @Isthisreddit@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            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.

  • @J12@lemmy.world
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    512 years ago

    Lunatics always show up in my For You feed on Twitter. I always tag the company with a screenshot of the offending content with the advertisement. Lately it’s been weird advertisements. Shitty gambling apps, religious and personal accounts promoting their personal brand. So they likely don’t care.

    Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.

      • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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        32 years ago

        That’s what I use Twitter for too but what intrudes my feed is mostly memes and cat videos. While it may be true my experience however isn’t that they’re pushing right wing content to everyone because I’m not seeing it.

    • @portifornia@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.

      I don’t know, I think there’s room for appropriate change here;

      • Twater
      • Twit’er
      • Twixlers

      I admit, my suggestions could use more help, but surely we must admit they’ve devolved from Twitter!?

  • @BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
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    22 years ago

    Why do brands care so much what their ads appear next to? Its not like people associate the ads with the content.

      • @BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
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        12 years ago

        But for example, advertisers avoid youtube videos that use slur words, or other non advertisers friendly topics. Its not like they stop advertising on youtube just because a video that said fuck exists. So who the hell associates the ad before the video to the video itself?

        • xor
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          12 years ago

          But, as you said, advertisers avoid that sort of content. They’re willing to still put the ads on YouTube because they know they can avoid their ads being shown next to certain topics.

          If you see

          buy Pepsi

          Insert racial slur

          That’s not going to give you good associations with the brand

          • @BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
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            12 years ago

            If the video itself advertises you - yeah, i absolutely see that. If its just one of those ads youtube slaps before the video starts - nope, i cant see it.

    • @BigDiction@lemmy.world
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      142 years ago

      Years ago I worked for a company that had ads appear on Breitbart. Retargeted display, not a direct buy on the site. People would screenshot the ads and light up our Twitter complaining we were directly supporting hate speech etc, so we asked our demand partner to stop buying there to avoid negative engagement on our social. If your site gets a critical mass of negative attention brands can shut down your ability to be commercially viable, and effectively censor the content in a way.