"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
A record number of firms plan to cut advertising spending on X next year because of concerns that extreme content on the platform could damage their brands, dealing another blow to the financial fortunes of Elon Musk’s social media company.
A global survey by market research firm Kantar found that a net 26% of marketers plan to decrease their spending on X in 2025, the biggest recorded pullback from any major global ad platform. Only 4% of marketers overall think X ads provide “brand safety” — certainty that their ads won’t appear alongside extreme content — compared with 39% for Google ads, Kantar said in a report Thursday.
“Advertisers have been moving their marketing spend away from X for several years,” Gonca Bubani, Kantar’s global thought leadership director for media, said in a statement, adding that “a turnaround currently seems unlikely.”
Ultimately, this is the only issue that matters.
Having the most powerful advertising AI and # of users do not matter when nobody wants to advertise on your platform.
X advertising revenue decreased by 24% since last year. During the same period, Meta's and Reddit's advertising revenues went up by 22% and 26%.
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Unprecedented doesnt mean it wrong in like a legal way. The supreme court rules on unique cases where the circunstances can be unprecedented and they are right legally
In Brazil its unprecedented that a social media app of this size is being banned. But given that literally every judge agrees with it must be right with Brazilian law
It's also unprecedented for a company of that size to respond to a request by closing their local offices and refusing to appoint local legal counsel. Most companies would endeavor to work within the law of the countries they operate out of so they can, you know, continue operating out of those countries.
But then most major companies aren't run by middle-aged terminally online man children who decide policy on a whim with zero internal oversight. If Mark Zuckerberg pulled this crap with Facebook, the board of Meta would throw him on his ass yesterday and start making apologies to the Brazilian government to reinstate them.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-mu...10d058af8dbc0c
Brazilians not taking this lying down.
And very right to do so. Threatening to arrest the X lawyer? Banning after withdrawing said lawyer? Threatening citizens with exorbitant fines for using VPNs to restore access? Judges are showing a bit too much reliance on authoritarianism, benevolently wielded, to protect the population from speech. And going so far as to ban elected politicians, and to not require explanations for account bans, will mark this as a thoroughly despicable action worthy of blanket condemnation.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Bolsonaro supporters, specifically.
Sounds like Elon should comply with the same laws every other social media company that operates in the country complies with.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
- H. L. Mencken
Hey, aren't those the same outfits as the goons that refused to accept the election and tried to storm the government were wearing back in 2022?
Can't imagine why those people would be miffee about being identified on Twitter
Maybe don't carry water for violent fascists who don't accept election results, eh?
You have another thing coming if you think having a judge force bans or the shuttering of the platform is opposing violent fascists. You might as well donate your own money to their groups, for all the good you are doing for them!
You can tell how pro-democracy everybody is around here when people celebrate the threatened arrest of lawyers. Oh, but it's the good guys doing it, so we can't actually examine what this does for justice and presenting a defense in a court of law.
I'll have to bookmark this for the inevitable assertions a couple of months from now, "Nobody said that the judge threatening to arrest a corporation's lawyer was a good thing! You're making that up!"
"I wish it need not have happened in my time." "So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I still think it's wild that you're effectively saying a billionaire should have free reign to break and completely ignore a nation's laws because punishing them for doing so is bad.
If people want to complain about twitter being banned somewhere, they should be bringing their complaints to Musk since he's the dullard that took a series of explicit actions to get it banned after being warned that what he was doing would get it banned.
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