Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

[George K]

[Copper]

I am wondering why they suspended advertising.

The reason given by advertisers seems to be uncertainty.

But if you dig a little deeper, the talking point is that Twitter now allows hate, vulgar and hostile rhetoric aimed at people based on their race, religion, ethnicity and orientation, such as the "n-word," "k-word," and "f-word,".

I can see where those things might be impolite or unpleasant for some.

It also seems that democrats hate Mr. Musk, republicans seem to be more tolerant.

[jon-nyc]

Maybe Texas will pass a law that you can’t stop advertising on Twitter if you operate in Texas, and you can’t not operate in texas.

[Jolly]

That would fix it, I guess.

Suspend doesn't meant quit. Advertisers want eyeballs. If Twitter can furnish eyeballs, it's business as usual.

[Horace]

Maybe the southern poverty law center can begin tracking companies who do business with sites affiliated with hatred. Then the actuaries can tally the cost of being on the list vs the benefit of advertising on whichever site they please.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Slow infield fly, even if Elon hadn’t already made the joke a couple of days ago.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Slow infield fly, even if Elon hadn’t already made the joke a couple of days ago.

Those are complicated plays that they even had to add a massive rules kludge to account for.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I sure as heck wouldn’t want to work for him

https://www.businessinsider.com/working-for-elon-musk-spacex-workplace-culture-twitter-jim-cantrell-2022-11

That sounds like a lady I know. Never had her as a boss, but I know people who did. 100++++% dedicated to work. No outside life at all. My friend got a text (or email) from her at something like 1 am, and then got "chewed out" because he did not answer it until 8 am the next morning.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

8 bucks a month for Twitter?

Well.

Note that Musk agrees.

[George K]

Also, someone was wondering if journalists who use "they/them" as pronouns will have to pay $16 because "they" identify as multiple people.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Oops.

[Doctor Phibes]

[George K]

[George K]

[Horace]

18 years ago that happened to me after my employer in WI was purchased. I have no emotional memory of having been fired so I guess I didn’t care much. But my team was oopsed back into employment soon thereafter. Then several months later we were given an ultimatum to move to CA, because they couldn’t fathom maintaining a remote team. That’s when my total domination of an entire leftist state began. After that process was complete, I moved on.

[jon-nyc]

Or maybe not?

[jon-nyc]

By the way, was this a rule previously on Twitter? Seems like no, since he said “going forward….”

But then he said he was making no moderation changes until his committee meets. But that was a couple of days ago so who knows.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

he was making no moderation changes

I guess it depends on how you define "moderation." I would think that impersonating someone else falls outside of the traditional definition.

BTW, she signed back in, using her (dead) mother's account to comment.

Someone said, "That's like getting thrown out of a party because you pissed in the punch bowl, and then dressing up like someone else, asking to be let back in."