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The irony here is that TeamBlind is entertaining to most users (tech ppl with technical background) because it's degenerate and off the cuff. To limit ad spend on Twitter for "ethical" reasons is the most degenerately ironic take I've heard all year!

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Everything about the post explained that it was not ethical reasons - it was business pure and simple.

Don't be confused about the brand safety stuff, that's a core advertising issue, and not even the biggest one. But it is important, if you are paying to get your brand good advertising, and instead it shows up next to content that negatively impacts the impression of your brand, you won't keep buying that.

I'm surprised all the Elon fans aren't critical of the fact that he fired all the people in the department responsible for taking customer money. 5D chess indeed !

I thought the irony was that they were fine with Twitter when they shared the platform with Louis Farrakhan, ISIS, and countless child predators, but Elon Musk owns it now and reinstated the account of the former president so that's where they draw the line.

Okay this is just right wing propaganda. Promotion of terrorism, grooming, and bigoted behavior were all against the Twitter TOS before Musk took over, and violations have only increased after Musk laid off the majority of the moderation team - not to mention people posting copyrighted material.

It's propaganda to correctly point out that ISIS, Farakhan and numerous child predators had accounts for years? It's a fact. So how is that propaganda?

Yes, because it had absolutely nothing to do with TFA or the discussion. Farakahn still has a twitter account, before and after Musk took over. The point is, Twitter has a smaller mod team and that is leading to tons of behavior that's making advertisers more hesitant to use it as a platform.

It has everything to do with the article. Anybody who claims the discourse on Twitter is too negative now while having no problem with Farrakhan, ISIS etc over the years can't be taken seriously.

My mind can be changed though. Can you provide some specific examples of this discourse now that rises above the level of the shit that Farrakhan says?

The worst thing Farrakhan has tweeted lately is a prayer defending Kanye, a person who was un-blocked by Musk. If that doesn't make everything crystal clear I don't know what will.

And Hitler had decent paintings, but if you're willing to be associated with him then you get the whole package. Farrakhan has 30 year history of antisemitism but that's ok, certainly not as bad as Elon owning Twitter, right?

Also, I asked for an example of this recent discourse that is worse that the types o comments Farrakhan has made, do you have some examples?

I'm not going to link the anti-semetic things Kanye said here, but you can go to his Twitter page if you're curious. If that's not good enough for you then I guess we don't have anything to discuss.

I read them. Nowhere near as virulent as what Farrakhan has been saying for decades. Again, nobody cared then for some reason. IT's almost like the offensive content isn't really what is driving people crazy, it's the loss of control of their major propaganda platform. Let's call it what it is.

This did not age well.

How is it "degenerate"?

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