Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:13:29 JST Laffy

   #WompWomp

   #X/ #Twitter May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out

   Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or are at risk of doing so, after Elon #Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/business/x-elon-musk-advertisers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

   • Embed this notice
     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:46:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • lin11c

     @lin11c

     (1/2) #Musk and #X

     "There has to be some indictable behavior here."

     Not being a lawyer, I still offer #BankruptcyFraud of an unusal kind.

     As @pluralistic has repeatedly pointed out, it is next to impossible to move a huge user base such as #X's from one platform to another. Users will disperse. #Twitter's IT and programming is ages old.
     In order to have a hemorrhage of users migrating all of a sudden to chiefly one platform,...

     https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bankruptcy_fraud

     @GottaLaff

   • Embed this notice
     lin11c (lin11c@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:46:17 JST lin11c

     in reply to

     @GottaLaff
     Now the Muskrat is unearthing the failed Pizzagate conspiracy. This is the one about Democrats sex trafficking and drinking the blood of children. What a sick-o. Time to shut him out of any/all government contracts and remove him from Xwitter. There has to be some indictable behavior here.
     https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-pizzagate-media-matters-1234889592/

   • Embed this notice
     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 07:46:30 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • lin11c

     @lin11c @pluralistic @GottaLaff

     (2/2)

     ...he needs #X to fold at short notice, e.g. through an #insolvency.

     I guess that his #PayPal's #JackDorsey's platform is now sufficiently stable to withstand a huge influx of new users.
     An insolvency would do nicely, in particular, if there are no big assets that could be liquidated and most ad contracts were cancelled...

     //

   • Embed this notice
     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:41:32 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • lin11c

     @lin11c

     No. They are still collaborating, from what I've read. Smoke screen.

     Good choice.
     Neither have I.

     @pluralistic @GottaLaff

   • Embed this notice
     lin11c (lin11c@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:41:33 JST lin11c

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @pluralistic @GottaLaff
     I read that he and Jack were in cahoots. I won't go to Bluesky.

   • Embed this notice
     lin11c (lin11c@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 03:57:54 JST lin11c

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
     • Andy Gates

     @andygates @HistoPol @pluralistic @GottaLaff
     He's on the board. Here's the main reason I didn't sign up.
     https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-twitter-terms-of-service

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Andy Gates (andygates@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 03:57:56 JST Andy Gates

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
     • lin11c

     @lin11c @HistoPol @pluralistic @GottaLaff Jack was hounded off the platform by users. Doesn't control it, isn't active there.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 22:07:59 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • beSpacific
     • lin11c
     • Andy Gates

     @bespacific

     Same here, but not only for this reason. #Jack Dorsey, co-founder and board member, is still in league with the most prominent #Nazi on the globe,
     #Elmo.

     @lin11c @andygates @pluralistic @GottaLaff

   • Embed this notice
     beSpacific (bespacific@newsie.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 22:08:00 JST beSpacific

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
     • lin11c
     • Andy Gates

     @lin11c @andygates @HistoPol @pluralistic @GottaLaff "If you post any content to the Bluesky Web Services, you hereby grant Bluesky and its licensees a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, modify, sublicense, and distribute the content, on or in connection with the Bluesky Web Services." No, not me. Thank you.