Lol it’s getting better and better.

  • davel [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’ve long suspected that making a direct profit was never the primary goal for some of the people involved with the Twitter purchase last year. The primary goal is to be able to steer public discourse.

    It seems I’m not the only one to suspect this: https://toots.matapacos.dog/@sindarina@ngmx.com/111433364786013662

    This is your regular reminder that the only reason the Edgelord Messiah got $44B worth of funding for his takeover is because his investors don’t expect a return. The threat that Twitter, despite all of its flaws, presented to oppressive regimes and white supremacy, they wanted it gone.

    X is a white supremacist, imperial project aimed at maintaining the status quo, and that is what you support.

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    IBM said in a statement to Forbes the company has “zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination.”

    doubt And yet they didn’t flinch when melon-musk promoted outright transphobia on the platform. All these companies care about is optics.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      [Elon’s thought bubble] “Let’s see… Why is my site failing so badly? And why did my rocket blow up? What shadowy forces could be causing me to fail so badly? Maybe that’s the wrong question. Who could be responsible?”