: On #Elon Musk's #Twitter (or "X"), the #Nazism and #antisemitism is often a feature, not a bug.
He's trying desperately to make a platform that was practically never profitable profitable enough to repay a $44bn purchase loan his runaway mouth and bravado trapped him into taking out, and he's playing up to the wrong audiences, i.e., Nazis, racists, fascists, incels, white supremacists, and Tucker Carlson's and driving away humanity. The dumbass.
That IS a violation of the law in Germany and of the EU's hate speech rules.
X definitely isn't Twitter.
@Cosmichomicide: Okay, fine, but so far Twitter or whatever it's called now doesn't seem much at all to care. US users say all kinds of shit on it that's illegal in Germany and likely elsewhere, but it still flies.
I'm not stating it as a matter of right or wrong but as a matter of what's happening.
I'm not disagreeing and I think even EU governments are still a bit shell shocked by the fact Elon is an unstable Edgelord dipshit and not some savant.
I think the day the landlord tosses them out of the SF office will be when folks realize he's just another grifter who has money because he stiffs people.
He'll spin it as "looking for better quarters" or a "more suitable location", but yeah, once he and his pet project gets the boot there'll be a reassessment of him by many.
I'm honestly baffled that serious people with serious jobs are meeting with this yo-yo and not working to get out of contracts and distance themselves before he rides his Special K wagon into their bottom line.
Zuckermania wasn't enough? Rebranding after a weekend of rail riding? Restoring an account that posted CSAM?
Our org started distancing when he pulled *actual* verification and I'm betting without Tweetdeck the SM team will dump X completely.
@Cosmichomicide: Money.
That's all. Money.
Businesses want "exposure" to the "global user base of the platform". They're doubtless hoping/figuring that "all this craziness can't last forever; eventually cooler heads with prevail", because they're dumbasses.
Panicky Wall Streeters always wait for someone else to bail, so they know it's okay, and then when someone bails, they all scram like rats from a sinking ship. Headasses.
Indeed. I'm just surprised he's not managed to "convince" them that he's really that big a dipshit and he'd be eating beans from a can if he was born differently.
People keep saying he has so much money he can't lose it all, I'm ready for advertisers, investors, and regulators to start giving it a good solid try.
@thedisasterautist
Yes, but international companies don't get to pick and choose. IIRC, Germany has already issued fines.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/04/05/germany-threatens-twitter-with-50m-fine-for-failing-to-tackle-illegal-content/