runiq@feddit.org to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videoswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squarePissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·3 days agoLarry Ellison will lose billions on this. TikTok will go the way of MySpace.
minus-squareMajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoIt seems like a no-lose for aspiring oligarchs, buying a social media platform with a large enough left and/or youth user base: muck with the algorithm until what remains is a new right-wing echo chamber; or accidentally sink the whole platform, but at least you wrecked a popular place for left-wing messaging; or somehow not meaningfully change the status quo, and end up with loads of user data and ad revenue.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoYup. It’s hard to look at this and not imagine de-platforming the left sphere as deliberate.
minus-squareMajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoIt was my first thought when Elon was circling Twitter, pre-purchase.
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoYeah, that move was far more conventional though. “Big industry fat-cat buys major newspaper” is right out of the 19th century cartoon villain playbook, which seems to be Elon’s whole bag.
minus-squareScroll Responsibly@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·3 days agoOne can hope… but Twitter still exists and people were saying the same thing about that when Elmo bought it.
minus-squarePissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYa. But he made it the new hate speech network. Anyone still there is very wrong for not leaving.
minus-squareWhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoThe only people on Twitter now are hateful right winged morons and crypto bros. Which also happen to not be mutually exclusive.
minus-squareruniq@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days ago Larry Ellison will lose billions on this. So what? He can generate more. Money has gravity. So does influence.
minus-squarePissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoNah bro. Ellison money is tied up in stock price of a company that has terrible products. It will collapse after the ai bubble pops.
minus-squaresejinaldo@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI have a feeling they’re trying to see how much they can get away with before changing course.
Larry Ellison will lose billions on this. TikTok will go the way of MySpace.
It seems like a no-lose for aspiring oligarchs, buying a social media platform with a large enough left and/or youth user base:
Yup. It’s hard to look at this and not imagine de-platforming the left sphere as deliberate.
It was my first thought when Elon was circling Twitter, pre-purchase.
Yeah, that move was far more conventional though. “Big industry fat-cat buys major newspaper” is right out of the 19th century cartoon villain playbook, which seems to be Elon’s whole bag.
One can hope… but Twitter still exists and people were saying the same thing about that when Elmo bought it.
Ya. But he made it the new hate speech network. Anyone still there is very wrong for not leaving.
The only people on Twitter now are hateful right winged morons and crypto bros. Which also happen to not be mutually exclusive.
One can only hope.
So what? He can generate more. Money has gravity. So does influence.
Nah bro. Ellison money is tied up in stock price of a company that has terrible products. It will collapse after the ai bubble pops.
I have a feeling they’re trying to see how much they can get away with before changing course.