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Using land amorally isn't the same thing as owning land unless you think land ownership is amoral.
I'll take that as a yes then. OP was not claiming all land ownership was bad. Just that rich people have commonly used land ownership to harm others. There is a long and rich history of this.
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The advertisers pulled before any layoffs. Actually they started pulling the day before he took over. The teams he cut are mostly silly teams. A climate team? At twitter? AI Ethics? He has to stop burning money. He is moving twitter from ad funded (which never paid the bills) to subscription funded (which might pay the bills? $8/mo is nothing. It will certainly make bans hurt more. It will significantly help spam.)
> $8/mo is nothing. Most of non-Western Twitter will vanish overnight if this is a requirement to use the platform. But it's still not clear what it will actually mean and how it will affect the site culture.
Ask yourself that question.
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The advertisers pulled before any layoffs. Actually they started pulling the day before he took over. The teams he cut are mostly silly teams. A climate team? At twitter? AI Ethics? He has to stop burning money. He is moving twitter from ad funded (which never paid the bills) to subscription funded (which might pay the bills? $8/mo is nothing. It will certainly make bans hurt more. It will significantly help spam.)
The advertisers began pulling ads after ad agency execs met with him and failed to get satisfactory answers[0] and after he posted that conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi. It didn't help that he ignored and then blocked the head of MMA Global just after the layoffs started.[1] If he wanted to keep advertisers on board this is an odd way to go about it. The Ethical AI team wasn't 'silly', it was working on ways to ma…
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You're complaining that you can't migrate your account to a Nazi server. This sounds like a feature , not a bug.
No, it sounds like censorship. Apart from the fact that Gab is not a "Nazi server" just like your average Mastodon server is not a "Communist server" even though there may be some neo-Nazis on the former and are sure to be a number of communists on the latter it sounds like a petty action by the project maintainers if certain servers are blocked by default. It sounds like a form of digital McCarthyism. I'll have a lo…
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>For at least 20 years now the far left authoritarians have had total control over the media I try not to cuss much on HN, but what the fuck are you talking about? If you think Fox News, one of the organizations with the largest audience is far left, you're out of your mind. If you think MSNBC or CBS were anywhere close to 'far left', you are again, out of your mind. Under no definition are those far left. I think yo…
>If you think Fox News One slightly right authoritarian news source does not a rule make... I bet you think "republican" means right.... I am a firm believer of the unipary theory of politics Republicans are no better than democrats. One wants to tell you what to do with your life (including your bedroom) but leave you with your money and guns, the other wants to take your money and guns but will allow you to do pret…
It is also very much present in various tech and fashion/style publications - check out Ars Technica and GQ as examples.
Both owned by the corporate mouthpiece Condé Nast Inc., by the way.
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>For at least 20 years now the far left authoritarians have had total control over the media I try not to cuss much on HN, but what the fuck are you talking about? If you think Fox News, one of the organizations with the largest audience is far left, you're out of your mind. If you think MSNBC or CBS were anywhere close to 'far left', you are again, out of your mind. Under no definition are those far left. I think yo…
Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist! Democrat Strategy 2022 Let's see how that works out for them tomorrow...
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>>So unless you want to claim that white males living in large urban centers from all corners o the US are not Twitter's demographics That is not my claim at all, my claim is the people that are freaking out about Elon owning twitter, that are freaking out about having a more free speech platform, that are freaking out that conservatives views will not be instantly banned by twitter "trust and safety" are not white m…
> conservatives views will not be instantly banned by twitter I see assertions like this a lot. Please show me the person who has been banned from Twitter for advocating for lower taxes or social benefit cuts. Or even, if you want to stretch the definition of “conservatives views”, gun rights and climate denial.
That would be republican public policy views, not conservative views. They are different things.
Conservative views are less about the economy and more about culture, family, traditional gender roles, faith, etc.
There are all kinds of examples of that being banned espically since TOS is written for a progressive or left world view
Remember the banning of Babylon Bee for satirically misgendering a trans high profile public offical was the catalyst that started Elon talking about buying twitter in the first place
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The company wasn't financially failing until Elon showed up, scared off most of the major advertisers, and stuck the company with $13B in high-interest loans he used to buy it.
Losing 4 billion dollars over 10 years isn't healthy.
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Losing 4 billion dollars over 10 years isn't healthy.
Wouldn't this logic make basically all SV giants "failing" until they hit that hockey stick turning point? Hell even Tesla didn't turn a profit until 2020, and it is pretty universally considered to be a success (even if there are some raised eyebrows over their the source of the profits being tax credits, and sky-high stock price)
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I think those aren’t incompatible views. Undeniably Elon’s success is his tremendous wealth, the basis of which are two very valuable companies that the cofounded and has as CEO marketed brilliantly, if not always honestly. He obviously knows a lot about what people to work with. It is highly unlikely he knows how to build or design almost anything Spacex or Tesla makes. He knows a lot about everything they make of c…
I don't know how you're measuring "greatest" but I certainly consider his greatest accomplishments to be putting together, betting on, and operating the companies that produced these products. Of course he doesn't know how to build a Tesla batter or a SpaceX rocket himself - probably no one person does. These were very difficult industries, industries that were extremely contrarian to bet on when he did. Making the f…
Perhaps it’s just that his wealth got the better of him.