• Archmage Azor@lemmy.world
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    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

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    Musk has continued to place his personal proclivity for right-wing content and influencers over brand – and really overall user – safety. For example, last month, Musk personally intervened to restore a right-wing influencer’s account after they were suspended for posting photos of child exploitation.

    Tells you everything you need to know.

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    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
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      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.)

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      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”

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

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    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?

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      You’re suggesting that Nazi’s use their famous critical thinking skills to understand that 99% of the world hates them and their ideology?

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          Has there ever been any intelligent right-wing movements? Pretty much every white supremacist has the IQ of a fairly cool room. They claim to be the superior race, while providing absolutely no evidence of this.

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      They want the negative reaction. They thrive on being hated. Similar with some of the worst Internet trolls. The hatred validates them.

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      Your link just shows the blinking X and “someone ‘paused’ (e.g stopped) doing business” with “x”.

      Or am I missing something?

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        I don’t think raising swastika flags counts as “without explicitly associating yourself with them”.

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    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.

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      I exclusively am subscribed to porn accounts, so I find it super weird when right ring idiots show up in my feed.

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        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.

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      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!?

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        It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s easy to block out communities with racist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. On the other hand, it allows communities like that to become echo chambers and freely further their abhorrent ideals completely unchecked.

        I don’t think the ban hammer is the most effective method of shutting down nazi shit, but it’s a hell of a lot better than shutting it out of sight and trying to forget about it.

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          Problem is that if we don’t kick out the Nazis, sooner or later this will become a Nazi bar.

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          Echo chamber will live no matter what. If they cant do it on reddit, they will do it on someplace else. Blocking them is the best we can do, as long as people that I dislike are still alive and have access to internet.

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        User calls for far-right content to be removed whilst using far-right terminology. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.

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          It’s bizarre to see isn’t it? Trying to insult people by accusing them or being… you.

          But they can’t see it. The entire depth of thought seems to be “Nazis are bad and I am good therefore I can’t be a Nazi”.

          It doesn’t matter that their list of undesirables is virtually identical, or that their violent solutions are virtually identical, or that the guy standing next to them has a SS tattoo.

          They don’t want to be a Nazi, so as far as they’re concerned, they’re not.

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          I’ve never seen the word before, but calling Ukraine’s president – who is Jewish – a “nazi” was a staple of Putin’s propaganda to support his war of imperial re-conquest.

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    Just love how we all refer to it as “the company formerly known as Twitter”

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    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?

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    It’s amazing there are still so many brands and social media strategists who seem in denial about what’s happening even as they watch their customer engagement on Twitter/X evaporate before their very eyes.

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      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.

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      Set a filter for capital ’ X ’ (with a space on either side) as well as ’ X.’ (left space + period)

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

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

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            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.

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

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          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.

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      I don’t think hate speech necessarily falls into the domain of free speech. It falls into the domain of people don’t like it so we don’t want to be associated with it.

      Anyway yet again, free speech only exists between you and the government. If corporations want to disassociate themselves with the business or individual because they allow people to say things they don’t like, that’s not violation of free speech.

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      If I have the right of free speech then surely I have the right to decide when, where, and with who my speech is delivered at

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.