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Hang it in the louvre
Nov 4, 2022 5:25 PM
HypostaticUnion
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Hang it in the louvre
TheOvy
Advertisers choosing who to associate their brand with is literally the exercise of free speech
backrideup9
Turns out, rampant racism is frowned upon by advertisers. Maybe dont let your poorly educated users drop n-bombs all willy-nilly.
Chemie99
Racism may be legal (in US) so "free speech" but advertisers don't have to advertise there
wibbIywobbIytimeywimey
Oh the irony of “they are trying to destroy free speech” but people are voicing their opinion—against him
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
When the other side has the same freedoms it's cancel culture, liberal wokeness gone mad, and/or a Jewish conspiracy.
faultysage
"Nothing has changed with content moderation" Besides locking employees out of the moderation system and firing the person in charge of it.
Chemie99
and 400% increase in racists slur towards a specific skin color
zxwaffen
And I've had the same thing happen, report direct racial slurs and get a NOPE response within minutes.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
If content moderation hasn't changed since he bought Twitter... either he didn't bring back free speech or it was never gone.
mardukkur
Twitter's entire value and core competency is content moderation (that's hard!), practically the only thing they're an industry leader in.
mardukkur
So of course idiot shitposter spent twice the value of the company to destroy the only thing that makes it worth anything.
henryvk
Right… activists
woozle
Phischstaebchen
SimianSeminar
"Buncha posers worshipping an orange don't bother me none"
GlennBecksChalkboard
Are these activist groups in the room with us right now?
TORQD
Show me, on this dolly, where the activist groups touched you
bigE416
His head is so far up his a$$
Iaimtomisbehave
No dude, we're showing you the door.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
He just wants someone to blame because of course the drop couldnt be because everyone hates him and his ideas.
banananananananananananananana
Feels like his number dropped pretty fast over the last couple of years.
JinxRocks
Just like a fat orange blowhard who can't accept most of America doesn;'t like him and didn't vote for him.
Kuiper
Or the fact that investors generally don't like it when you liquidate half a company after buying it, or companies don't like n bombs
mrthewhitee
Its 100% fear over what ultimately did happen. An explosion of hate speech. No company wants their ad in a screenshot of 500 N word posts.
TresusIbor
N N N N please buy N N N N N get one fr N N N N N today! N N N N N N N N
KeepingRepostStatsBusy
I closed 2 accounts yesterday after smearing the crap out of Musk. I bet he’s butt hurt over my commentary about his daddy.
mrthewhitee
Has nothing to do with him personally. He spent a lot of time complaining about over moderation on Twitter. Advertisers like existing /1
mrthewhitee
Moderation because it makes it safe for ads. It's only natural that they would pause ads expecting moderation to get worse based on /2
mrthewhitee
His own statements of restoring "free speech" to Twitter cause no brand wants to be screenshoted next the 500 N word posts. /3
MeatraffleJackpot
We're not taking the blame though, we're taking the credit.
AbhainnFuil
What ideas?
SuperfluousMeh
Noitsthechildrenwhoarewrong.jpg
BrainTaffy
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
Guess who’s getting laid off next?
MadCat221
Could it possibly be because of what he stated he intended to do with Twitter upon its acquisition? Surely not!
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Or the massive surge in posts with racial epithet, including "Kill [racial epithet]". He did everything to appease = he made empty promises…
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
after advertisers noped out of this N-word infested hellscape. Soon the right will hate him too for cowing to the Illuminati. It's beautiful
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
And he already fired the content moderation experts, so he has to invent the wheel all over again if he really wants to fix what he broke.
RetrogradeLlama
What a jackass this guy is. This will really make the advertisers sign up!
CakeIsALie227
Twitler
AnotherFailedAttemptAtHumor
"I'm free speech! You all have to love and worship me! Why aren't you all bowing down and licking my boots?!?" - This smegmatic troll.
smegmaspread
Don’t bring smegma in to this.
srsfaceI8C
Smegmatic is a terrific word I'm definitely going to use at least 3 times today.
BootsDusty
Kingrablo
He fired half the staff, how does that not impact content moderation? Fucking douche
cuskarie
Here is the best part. His loan to buy Twitter is structured in a way that will force him to sell tesla stock to cover it if it fails.
wibbIywobbIytimeywimey
Why does the richest guy in the world get a loan to buy anything???
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
They see to it that they have next to no taxable income. That's why he so generously refuses CEO wages. Still gets to buy whatever he wants.
WhatzitTooya
Rich people never use their own money.
riplikash
Because when you're rich you use loans to buy EVERYTHING. WAY more tax loopholes with loans.
fencer1964
It’s not real, liquid money. It’s all stocks an such.
cuskarie
Most rich assholes structure there wealth in a way its hard to tax. Cash poor but asset heavy. Almost all his wealth is in stocks.
ShiftingPattern
Liquidity issues.
NKato
Because Tesla stock is where all his wealth is. He used it as collateral.
secondtalon
Tax break on the loans, you use something you believe will increase in value as collateral, end up getting paid to buy it after 5 years.
secondtalon
aka "Why the living fuck are we not taxing at 100% for every penny past 500 million?"
Xenarion
Because most of his wealth is in assets. Those can be used as guaranties to negotiate better rates, more or less like a mortgage, >
Xenarion
> without him having to sell said assets right now (or at all if his plan succeed). >
Xenarion
> Plus, for companies, loans are counted differently for tax purposes.
Jace99
No Elon. Advertisers don’t trust your leadership. They’re not willing to sign a contract with a childish cunt.
req4adream99
Isn’t that just the free market working? I’m sure MyPillow and Fox would be happy to buy ads.
zxwaffen
Yep. Capitalism with zero extra steps. "Advertising here might lose us money, let's not lose money."
CurbYourClassWar
FlyingButtPliers
Bullshit. I've seen more racist, anti-vax, kill liberal shit on there in the past week than ever before. It was normally deleted or flagged.
IDoNotWantAnAccount
"Free Speech" meets Free Market. This isn't suppression of free speech, it's just sparkling consequences.
sherlockhooves
So a group of advertisers and businesses don't want to be associated with a rich, whiny, pathetic narcissist that bails on projects? Huh
drduffer
It seems that Elon is willing, no, even encouraging, a break from reality in order to justify his vision of how it should be in his world.
potentiallyunsafe
Oh god he's going straight for the "tAkInG aWaY oUr FrEeDoMs" rhetoric
fireflyseasontwo
And this, his own loaded question poll
aslum
both.gif
Sprinx
Purely impartial questions /s
AnOceanOfStars
Musk was a 14 yo on the internet just last week, now he's an 8 yo. Nice progress, Benjamusk Buttelon. Appropriate propic.
cjandstuff
Advertisers support one thing only. Money. Does this thing bring in money or cause us to lose money?
SirButcher
How would he now? He just constantly falls upward with zero effort. He has zero business sense.
DamnedIfYouDo
Can fucking people STOP using the fucking phrase "free speech" so fucking incorrectly?!! FUCK!!!!
drdrmn
“Free” speech. How much is a blue check mark going for these days? Still $8.50?
yomahnn
$0 if you never want or buy it.
drdrmn
A fellow non-Twitter user…
yomahnn
Never had it. Never wanted it. Never needed it. Cheers mate.
fireflyseasontwo
Blue check mark is nothing but blackmail fodder now; pay or be impersonated by someone who will. Advertisers are not amused
VibratingNipples
Rat certified is free
Leonon
*Ratified ?
FishieStardust
BastardMan1977
His tweets are sounding more and more like Trump's...with less random capitalized words
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BastardMan1977
Keep sucking his dick. He might notice you one day!
SouperScott
I don't think calling a joke stupid is sucking his dick.
BastardMan1977
tootsmcclure
I thought he was some genius businessman. Between “no knowledge” of the fake accts and not foreseeing this. I remember when ppl started
tootsmcclure
talking about how you could buy bot followers for social media, ppl are well known to do it on there. Games used to offer freebies for
tootsmcclure
Tweeting a link so ppl, like me, made dozens of fake accts to farm like FarmVille gifts. All his complaints were easily seen prior to buying
AnythingMuchShorter
Yeah, the style varies, but the theme matches "I'm very smart but this isn't going my way because everyone else is doing everything wrong."
Jetda
isn't it creepy?
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
Big boomer energy
MmmmmSoup
Both probably have syphilis and are going insane
revilo18
Fewer
RetrogradeLlama
Narcissists have a common theme.
MagnorCriol
And con men have a common base.
FishAreSUS
And compulsive liars have a common rhetoric.
zFUBARz
If he could legally run for president I'm sure he would.
witheredspoon
Twitter should ban him!
VictusVonGuyver
Combine Rupert Murdock's control and power over an influential media outlet with Trump's whiney narcissistic methods... and you get this.
mistermixelpix
LMAO I said the same thing. He's appealing straight to the stupid ignorant base
Rhythmaster
I like how he literally equates advertising revenue with free speech. Citizens United, is that you??
jdasler
Surely you must mean that his capitalized words are less random. Otherwise you would have said “fewer random capitalized words”.
wargames
covfefe
secondgoaround
Sad!
TheOvy
Fake hair, thin skinned, non-stop tweeting liar who takes responsibility for nothing. He's always been another Trump.
Fedotia
He writes like a teen, while Spanky had the sentence structure of a toddler.
Xenarion
Yeah, he's Trump with less dementia and bankrupcies.
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
He's younger though, so he can still catch up.
stonebrood
fewer*
Orionsdick
Feuher*
BastardMan1977
Thanks, high school english teacher
jdasler
Yeah, I mean why make it clear what you mean when you can make people guess?
jankeydadondc
ratfaceddog
The capitalized words are less random.
EndersdoyouthinkthisisafuckingGame
He's quantifying, not comparing. The correction stands.
PastureofMuppets
*fewer random
elcee50
because he's just Trump with marginally better PR
jimicus
Mark my words, within a couple of weeks, the bit where deleted comments are replaced with a note saying “comments deleted” will go.
jimicus
Instead, deleted comments will just disappear.
aintnothinbutahounddog28
As terrible as Elon is he does have about triple the IQ of trump. And I don't think Elon is even close to being a genius
SecondSince
My pet rat has triple the IQ of Trump. That's a low bar to clear!
Ghlargh
Trumps mindset with a slightly more functional brain... We should be really weary of this guy.
Ultratoxic
Oh trust me, I am. Wary of him, too.
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
Come on. He said himself that he's a genius. Would a genius lie about something like that? /s
ialwaysoverthinkthings
Bigliest brainers