Comment on Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification

• Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surely there are easier ways to destroy it without making himself look really, really dumb.

  I don’t think it’s they deep, I think he’s just quite stupid.

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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hanlon’s Razor shouldn’t apply to businessmen because acting machiavellian and feigning ignorance is in their interest. But he has so thoroughly ruined his “real life Iron Man” reputation, that I doubt that this is some master plan. Even his other companies have lost value due to how bad he is fumbling this.

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      • paboppa@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah he definitely could have slowly killed the platform without humiliating himself like he is

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  • mrbubblesort@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remember back in 2015 ~ 16 when we thought Trump was playing 4d chess, but it turned out he was really actually that dumb all along? It's the same with Musk. We want to believe that someone who's had so much success has a secret plan or something, but sometimes they really are just stupid chucklefucks

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• silverbax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If Elon bought it just to sink it, he would have just bought it, then shut it down.

  He’s trying to build his ‘financial superstore’ idea from 20 years ago and it will be disastrous in a way that hasn’t even been seen yet.

  Wait until this idiot starts implementing money transactions in Twitter and thousands of users suddenly have their bank accounts drained or worse.

  It’s only a matter of time before something so bad happens that all the nonsense that he’s already done will be a footnote to the really big story.

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• peereboominc@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But why? If Twitter is something he and his friends do not like it would be a better move to censor everything instead of pushing the users to other Twitter alternatives and spread the same message over there. Controlling is more valuable than pushing the users away.

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because, as an authoritarian regime, there is no way to meaningfully control and censor twitter unless you take the Great Firewall of China approach and even then, that is a very difficult to implement solution.

    So the next best solution for an authoritarian to stop an unwanted message from spreading is destroying the platform, even better if it’s through a private, tenuously connected proxy, who you could plausibly deny connection to.

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      there is no way that rich people could be some form of authoritarian aristocracy that sees themselves as divinely ordained the most capable leaders in existence because they have a lot of money and act on this belief…

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