Musk is a cunt and Tesla are shit

hard lol

Something made me think this thread needed a bump

Wow he's had a busy day today

Now he's suing companies for not advertising on his platform.

WAC.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/6/musk-declares-war-on-advertisers-as-x-sues-ad-alliance-companies

He's been talking about it for ages - and he's doing it in conjunction with his chums at Rumble.

So what, he wants a court to force them to advertise? WTAF

it does make me laugh that these guys bang on about "free markets", but when the market does something they don't like, it's unfair and needs litigation to force people to change their minds.

Musk doesn't have a single principled position other than let me make as much money as I can doing whatever the fuck I want. Like most free market and free speech absolutists it doesn't take much to find out what they really mean is for them to say and do whatever they want not other people.

The guy is a massive grifter who has become rich beyond imagination through blatant stock market manipulation and state benefits. It blows my mind that people actually think he's a genius.

The sooner x crashes and takes the cunt with him the better.

If the unrest in England continues and Musk refuses to do shit about the use of X as an organisational medium, what does KS do about it?

Block access to X?
Threaten it?

Or is nothing really possible?

I mean if a TikTok ban is thinkable, then surely so is an X ban?

He'd have to do more than block access to Twitter:

https://www.garbageday.email/p/x-matter

Facebook is as bad, if not worse, and most organising is done on messaging platforms like Telegram and Signal.

Something that I read yesterday, which I thought was an interesting idea, is to have laws similar to that for stock exchanges, where trading can be suspended at times of high volatility. The idea being that you temporarily suspend the service if there is civil unrest.

Seems like a fair approach

You could start by legislating against platforms actively boosting their preferred political viewpoints, paid accounts, and tightening up rules for non-human actors.

Suspending entire platforms seems a bit wild.

I think they have the power to fine them up to 10% of global revenue? Which I assume they wouldn't pay and would get bogged down in court for years

Turning off news, media and information channels when there is civil unrest seems… troublesome.

yeah I struggle to see how that is a "fair approach" when we have plenty of examples worldwide of this exact thing being used for repression

Social media companies have a responsibility to moderate their platforms and remove illegal content. The onus is very much on them to do this, but if they don’t, then what should happen? A forced outage is a big step but they have to take their responsibilities seriously.

Anyway, any reasonable person should’ve left Twitter/x by now as it’s clear that Musk is actively supporting the far right.

It’s a difficult problem, as well as the scale at which a forced outage is imposed.
Are riots in the UK enough?
Storming of congress?
Countries invading other countries?

Fines or the threat of fines I don’t think bothers Musk very much.

what does KS do about it?

You'd have thought that stopping using the platform would be a very easy. fairly measured response, there's no obligtion for there to be loads of government accounts on twitter.

I left my account on there because I don't want someone else starting one in my username (I have still used it a couple of times this year to rant at shit companies, but even that is becoming less use these days).

Ooh I could make it a private account couldn't it? Remove the "value" LOL

That’s the same reason I’ve left mine up and went private.

Before I deleted my account, every so often I’d get tweets from upset guitar players about a US based guitar shop run by someone with the same name. Mildly amusing, if nothing else.

/csb

I just set mine to Private.