Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,…::undefined
Saw someone else make a good point. I hope all these people that shouted about supporting net neutrality back in the day will make noise about how anti net neutrality this is. (I doubt it, but it’d be nice)
California passed its own net neutrality laws, but I think it only applies to ISPs.
I wonder if anyone’s image has crashed from such highs to such pathetic lows. At the end of the day, it was all PR but he still had the admiration of many people just a few years back i.e before the Thai submarine fiasco. Now most people consider him a petulant child man with a massive fortune. The only good outcome of this fall has been a clear understanding that earning wealth is purely based on luck. It doesnt matter if it is millions or billions ,nothing comes due to our own genius. It is a combination of factors that result in wealth but it is mostly determined at your birth. May be this episode will humble others who might have taken a similar path due to their inexplicable wealth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The delayed websites included X’s online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack, as well as the Reuters wire service and the Times.
On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero.
Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for the Times, said in a statement that the news outlet has “made similar observations of our own” about the systemic delays and “not received any explanation from the platform about this move.”
“While we don’t know the rationale behind the application of this time delay, we would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons,” he said.
“Writers cannot build sustainable businesses if their connection to their audience depends on unreliable platforms that have proven they are willing to make changes that are hostile to the people who use them.”
Links to Facebook, Instagram and the new microblogging service Threads were all throttled; all three are owned by Meta, whose founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg has been locked in an ongoing online feud with Musk over not-yet-existent plans for a mixed-martial-arts fight.
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Wow! The genius of the man. It walks the fine line between infantile and stupid.
Why are so many people still using Twitter, what will it take for people to leave? Musk could probably charge $10 per tweet and bunch of people would be fine with that.
The same reason 2016 happened. Lots of mentally broken people in this country. Just watched a manager, old guy, at work, go off to another old co-worker about “did you hear about what they’re doing to skittles? With the fucking trans colors!?” knuckle dragging rabble rabble THEY WERE ALREADY A RAINBOW.
There are so many other valid arguements against skittles (my favorite candy). Idk whether to facepalm or guffaw that fucking skittles are now on the map to fight against.
Honestly with how fast threads, brand new, was able to jump into this compared to the growth of mastodon, I’m convinced the only thing that can convince most people to stop using a corperate bloated social media site from hell is a new, slightly less bloated (so far) corperate social media site from hell.
Twitter won’t die all the way until we have something else we want to die
People will never accept that part of the problem is themselves.
Hell, even I still use Twitter sometimes. I admit I am part of the problem. Other people won’t at least try to be honest about it.
Then they complain. That just shows that they’re not actually upset at the existence of sites like Twitter, they’re just upset they’re not the ones running them.
The vast majority of human beings in this country are so toxic.
The removal of the capability to make money on it as a platform.
Considering the company is now, according to the CEO, close to break-even and slowly beginning to bring back advertisers and anticipating profitability in Q1 '24, I think they’re going to be around for a while longer.
Beyond that element, I believe that Musk wants control of the company at least until/through the next presidential election, so X/Twitter probably isn’t going anywhere in the near future.
So some more lawsuits then, I guess. This can’t be legal.
Before Net Neutrality was tossed, it wasn’t
Net neutrality only applies to ISPs
Meta and their army of lawyers might still find a way. Can’t hurt if they’d try something useful for a change.
Petulant melon husk at it again.
it’s fun to watch it burn
Muuuhaha… the Elon child :-)
Lmao! Sounds like some pretty shit he would do.
avater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m sorry but which developer implements such dark patterns? I mean you have something called work ethic, you don’t implement shit like that…
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you’re on a work visa and you don’t want to get deported then you do what daddy Elon tells you.
avater@lemmy.world 1 year ago
some with integrity don’t…