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I guess I don't understand what he is fighting for no. Twitter users are free to say whatever they want. Equally, companies are free to spend their dollars in any way they want. If Twitter and its users really want free and uncontrolled speech, they should move to a completely user-subsidised model with no ads. "Uncontrolled" or unmodderated speech isn't always brand safe content, so it seems valid advertisers wouldn't be keen to sponsor that. Maybe I'm missing something but that's how I see it.
If these companies really cared about the content they wouldn’t be posting their content on the platform. If they feel that it’s so bad they need to completely leave the platform. Like he side they’re trying to blackmail him into getting their way. It’s one thing if one or two companies/people leave because of their beliefs and it’s another thing when people/companies are going out of their way to try and blackmail and manipulate X to do what they want. X is already following the law and removing illegal content, what they really want is X to censor people they don’t like and/or agree with.
I'm not sure if they're really blackmailing him or just noticing how shitty the platform is becoming. Almost every decision made by Musk has made the platform worse.
The decision to remove one sided enforcement of policies?
Sure, if you want to close your eyes, be oversimplistic and it fits your worldview.
I’m not trying to be rude or close minded here but before Elon Musk, Twitter was a left lining platform, and there was blatant proof of right wingers being banned or censored on the platform. Before he even took off for the platform, a lot of people are gunning for him, and for the company to fail under him simply because he wanted to make it open for everyone. I don’t agree with all of his decisions, but considering the circumstances that he was in when he took over the company I don’t see what else prove my point, there was even leaked documents, showing FBI involvement and censor in American people which is a first amendment violation.
I don't think most people are gunning for Elon for "Making it open for everyone", they're gunning for him because he makes shitty decisions and has been fucking up the platform, and if you add to that that there has allegedly been more posts for racism, then it's easy to see why companies don't want to have ads on Twitter.
Personally, I just want to see xwitter and Musk go under completely. So, the less advertising he gets, the more his personal money has to go into propping up that ridiculous platform. It's gonna be really funny to watch. So far his dethroning as some kind of "genius" has been very entertaining. It's amazing how quickly a person's true lack of talent comes out when they actually have to put in some amount of work rather than just writing checks and cashing in on other people's hard work.
Well I don’t think he’s that much of a genius he’s just someone with a lot of money, which he was smart enough to make, who’s witnessed the one sided enforcement of policies on a platform that has a big influence on the country and the world.
Smart enough to be born an African emerald heir.
Being born with money doesn’t mean your good with money far more often kids who inherited their money do worse than those who are self man.
Sure, but even more often than that poor people stay poor. You mostly only get richer if you were rich before.
Yes life isn’t far and people get different lots in life but in the case of Elon he’s done something with what he was given and you have poor people who used their lot and hardship to make something of themselves. Wealth doesn’t start out of thin air someone had to be the first and someone competent had to carry on the torch.
You really have absolutely no idea about factual history, do you? Another failing of the public school system...
I don't know. This sounds like the propaganda they feed rich, private school kids.
Elaborate, there is nothing wrong in what I’m saying it’s the American dream. It’s why so many people fight to get into America and you don’t see many people leave.
I stand corrected. It's not just a failing of the public school system. You've completely dissociated from reality.
What’s there to say at this point other then just to say we can agree to disagree.