Exclusive: Apple to pause advertising on X after Musk backs antisemitic post
Exclusive: Apple to pause advertising on X after Musk backs antisemitic post
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Just stop permanently.
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Stop X permanently. The lawsuits are massing up, and the value of the business has nearly dropped such that the $13bn debt is bigger than it. They had little hope of paying even the interest before Musk started intentionally tanking their revenue. He knows that the business will never have to pay up, hell they're not even paying rent on their offices, and he'll get away with the crime Scott free because it's a limited liability company.
And make no mistake, that was the plan all along. Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public good, and on the way out see what controversial actions they can get away with. That way any site that comes to fill the void can do the same. His old mate Peter Thiel will likely be pleased, along with a bunch of other unscrupulous people.
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Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public
It's amazing to me how much people have rewritten history since musk took over. Twitter was always shit. It's worse now, yeah. A lot worse. But it's like taking a shit on a smaller pile of shit. All this talk about how it was a real boon for humanity and so important it should be regulated as a utility is equal parts idiotic and hilarious.
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served the public good
Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn't any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.
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I don't disagree this is a possibility, but I have yet to hear someone clearly articulate why poopoobrain over there would do something so dumb intentionally.
I find it so much more compelling that he's just a divorce-brained middle-aged dumbass with a megaphone and billions to dig his own grave. That he was forced to buy Twitter after waving his dick around in public and has been trying to save his reputation ever since by pretending that it's all a part of his plan to amplify the right voices to 'save humanity'.
I'm not saying he isn't brain-broken enough to believe it himself, but I don't think he ever really had a plan. I think he's a sad, lonely billionaire going through the worlds biggest mid-life crisis.
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website formerly known as twitter
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yeah but money
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Why does anyone still use this pile of crap anyway since the kid took over?
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Pretty sure users have mostly left.
Companies and public figures keep using it, because for most of them it's just some intern or bot that was posting.
It takes a while for social media to finally die because of that. They'll just stumble on like a zombie for like a decade.
The only way it'll happen faster, is if people loudly boycott anyone that's still using it. But with 99% of social media sucking ass, there's not really a place to do it from where companies and public figures will hear it.
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Don't insult children like that, kids would have made way better and funnier decisions lmao
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You're right. Sorry.
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I'm still there because I like to know what the crazies think about stuff. It's still entertaining in its own way. For example, did you know there are business experts on Twitter even smarter than Tim Cook? It's true...
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Scott Adams needs to hide away in his Dilbert shaped house, never to be heard from again.
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Tim Cook must be on vacation! I know this because The Sacred Man Himself could never do such horrible thing!
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Everyone still there is scared of losing money, or attention.
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Sports… beat writers still use it and most news breaks on there first.
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Yes. I know at least one person. His name is Elon.
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am kid ..
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For the same reason I started using it in the first place. Elon taking over haven't changed my user experience in any way. It's the same it has always been. Ironically enough it's also the only social media platform where my feed is 99.5% free of politics or talk about Elon.
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The only part I hate is that real people have and will lose their jobs due to 1 person that treats this entire situation like a kids game.
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The problem I see that it is "pause", not "quit".
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"Wait until it dies down, then go back to selling Macbooks to the Nazis."
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This
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Why just pause
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Waiting for the latest Nazi shit to blow over.
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So they can start advertising on it again in two weeks when people aren't paying as much attention again, duh. Just like when all those corporations stopped donating to insurrectionist Republicans, for about three seconds.
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Why not remove the app from their app store?
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Better late than never I guess
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They could remove the app from their app store if they cared.
This is practically nothing compared to doing that.
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You're asking a corporation to care for human values when its only purpose is to generate revenue...
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"pause"
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"Exclusive", at least the forth version of this story I've seen today.
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the surprising part is that they were still advertising on it until now
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Are you going to be surprised again when Apple resumes after their "pause"?
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Must not touch the Jews! Tim Apple hates that
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Just a pause? Planning on hanging out with the #fascists a bit later maybe?
Between this & the Jon Stewart / China bullshit, I'm so glad I never gave Apple's e-trash a second thought.
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They're gonna head down to the Winchester, have a pint, wait for this all to blow over
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Fascists buy iPhones too, I guess.
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Musk being an utter waste of skin isn't an exclusive.
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The worst thing is reading news with X in the middle of the sentences, it looks like a math problem.
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To solve for X we must cancel it out.
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When will any of these companies realize that they need to leave forever?
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What was the original tweet that he said he agreed with? I'd prefer to judge for myself.
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Okay.
Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.
You want truth said to your face, there it is.
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apple and musk can both go fuck themselves
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Not google tho, rite?
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It wasn't an exhaustive list.
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About bloody time.
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I don't see any of the hardware news and reviews you've posted. Did the mods delete them, or am I just experiencing one of Lemmy's glitches?
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I'm here to consume mate.
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So this should just be a conveyor belt of promotion for the tech industry?
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Should be more than what it is now. Boring as shit!
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