The Great Noticing is upon us

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[–]Fonched 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Well I hope this free speech can be maintained. IBM has already pulled out of advertising on Twitter because of these comments, sad.

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

IBM has the free speech right to also not advertise on something if they don't want. But I guess the worry is that Elon will bring back censorship if he loses money with less advertisers. I think also IBM is down in profits, who do they make any more? So they're just advertising less anyway.

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

While I think Elon's pockets will help for some time, the bad PR is here and I have seen losses in Twitter's valuation. Normies and leftists are also averse to the increased right-wing speech, so they are banking on Threads/Bluesky/Cohost/Mastodon. The site becoming another Gab or BitChute is not going to help the movement.

[–]William_World 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah advertising was going down ever since elon brought censorship down, but of course with more censorship less real people used it, befote twitter tried to make up for that with bots. But advertisers want real people to see their ads. So I think it evolves to some sort of medium level of advertising and censorship/bots. Right now adervtising is going down and censorship up, that might get back to a different level again.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Mastodon is a joke. It's a small circular hugbox, heavily censored with no reach.

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Seems like the left wants an ideological divide, if they decry the most mainstream platform for being more lax on speech. What to do?