Elon sues advertisers for not advertising on X Twitter

[solarbird]

Hilarious.

I can’t be bothered to write anything new, so here’s a post from – jeez, barely over a month ago, that links a huge number of the previous articles I’ve written about this fetid shitball and his fascist propaganda and disinformation machine.

Apparently – despite his demands – he hasn’t been able to get Republican state attorneys-general to prosecute people and companies which do not give him money. In a general sense, he thinks boycotts should be illegal – well, at least, where he’s concerned, because of how special a boy he is.

Back in November, he went off extensively and in public about how not paying him money is censorship, that advertisers have a moral and/or ethical responsibility to give him money via advertisiing on X Twitter.

The main takeaway coverage at the time delivered was him telling advertisers to go fuck themselves, using almost exactly those words! But if you watch the whole interview, you get the greater message about how not giving him money is a crime and should be illegal.

It’s truly bizarre, and that’s not even including the bit about how all the copyright action against AI bots won’t matter because LLMs will become God AIs before any of the cases get resolved in court.

No, really. It’s an offhand comment and not pursued, but holy shit, it should’ve been.

Basically, the man is well beyond weird, and full-bore into a delusional fascist messiah complex. He’s been there for a long time, and in plain sight. Being on X / Twitter just helps feed it, as he turns it further and further up.

So do highlight the trainwreck, but do not help pay for it. Given how much money he’s throwing into this election and why he bought Twitter, from a functional standpoint, literally every tweet is an ad for MAGA and/or Trump, so I wouldn’t be doing any of that, either.

And for the gods’ sakes, don’t rely on “X” for information and organisation, particularly close to November. If it’s not obvious, he will yank it out from under you when you need it the most.

90 days remain.

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Comments

[jessie_c]

I refer Mr. Musk to the reply given in Arkel v Pressdram.

[solarbird]

[looks it up]

ha! yes. that will do.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

At this point, most of us have been screaming "get off Twitter!" for two years now, and I think everyone who is going to abandon twitter has abandoned it, and everyone else left is either a Nazi or hoping to popcorn.gif their way through watching it go down in flames. Here's hoping that Enron has to sell out to Tumblr or someone at a severe loss in the near future.

[solarbird]

Unfortunately, that's not at all true.

Every government agency, every government official, every politician who had accounts there before still have accounts there. Journalists are still there en masse, even if a fair number made their way to Mastodon and BlueSky. InfoSec migrated successfully as a block to Mastodon as did a lot of harder-core technologists, though many of the latter stayed. Some artists migrated, but not that many. Some academics did, because Twitter became impossible, but they haven't really gelled anywhere else.

But overwhelmingly, people stayed, and in no way just political people. And one of the things I'm still trying to get through to people is that if you try to rely on Twitter, you will get rugpulled at the worst possible moment - as White Dudes for Harris and Progressives for Harris both found out this last week - so at very least, also set up elsewhere, and try to bring your people with you.

There's also an attempt to get a "Twitter Last" movement going, where you stay on Twitter, but update Twitter last of all the services you support. I don't think this'll work but I appreciate the effort.

I am deeply disappointed in very, very many people, but then, I always have been.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

InfoSec migrated successfully as a block to Mastodon

And this is what makes me feel guilty about not visiting Mastodon more. I am on there, but I found myself going back to Reddit more and more. And I know Reddit has its own problems.

[solarbird]

Yeah, Reddit sure does, but not like Twitter does.

If you ever feel like a Federation Reddit-like, you're looking for Lemmy or Kbin. I prefer Kbin's interface, and an account on any one of them will let you participate in the other, so.

(I participate some on both Lemmy and Kbin from my Mastodon instance, but it's not an optimal solution.)

Unrealistic Expectations

[stickmaker]

I'm reminded of that TV network executive who stated, flatly, that people who fast-forwarded through commercials in programs they recorded were "stealing."

Re: Unrealistic Expectations

[solarbird]

Oh I can top that, I remember one saying that if you left the room at all during commercials, you were committing theft.

Delusional, obviously. And yet!

Re: Unrealistic Expectations

[numb3r_5ev3n]

I imagine these folks having fullon conniption fits at the thought of people like me who used to stop recording during commercials during the days of VHS, and started recording again after the commercials were over.