Trump & Musk hand in hand in almost every post now. I guess mass formation psychosis was true after all?
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Apple Pausing Advertising on X Following Latest Elon Musk Controversy
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Racism is carried out by individuals of all races, no doubt — but the point of this article is that a response from Elon to a poorly worded post has caused him to lose advertisers. Some of those advertisers are claiming that their ads are placed around posts from users with a certain ideology that they don’t agree with. I don’t know what the tipping point was, but Elon’s initial response (later clarified) wasn’t productive.
Thank you, now I know what I’m gonna tell my kids if they waste their lives on weed and memes: stop it before you become an antisemite imbecile that everybody hates except pothead high-schoolers, like Elon Musk.
Which one are you talking about?
Why would they need to wait though? Apple can pull its advertising for any reason it wants (or no reason at all), any time it wants to.
I understood your request and saw it as sincere. I apologize if my response came across as dismissive, as that was not the intention. My point was that even with filters, there’s no way to meaningfully isolate yourself (other than tuning out):
A) on ad-driven platforms such as twitter, facebook, instagram, TikTok, etc., where value is derived from network effects, and
B) in a connected society in general because there will be leakage from platforms to users outside the platforms (e.g., MR Forums).
A is because the platforms are incentivized to maximize reach for advertisers and audience-limiting filters impede that objective so the platforms employ hacks such as algorithmic feeds, etc. to mitigate that.
B is because many users aren’t just on one platform — so what’s said on platform X will not stay on platform X.
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Pay no attention to the suicide nets outside of Apple's contracted factories right.
Because they don’t want to be in a situation like OP mentioned, constantly pausing and resuming advertising each time there’s a scandal, directing polarized attention at themselves each time they do so. If they’re out, they’d prefer to be out for a while.
Saw your tag about "55% of 18-65 unemployed". Just a little outside: Unemployment is 3.9% by people who know more than you.
Don't see any of those outside Apple headquarters. Maybe it's got something to with, oh, I don't know, dictatorial communist government, and not Apple?
That tracks with what I’ve seen myself
Every ad on twitter is now for either crypto scams, investing scams, shoddy dropshipped products or trash mobile games (Evony and that merge game with goblins)
Every ad on twitter is now for either crypto scams, investing scams, shoddy dropshipped products or trash mobile games (Evony and that merge game with goblins)
So Tim is not cool with dictators unless he can manufacture iPhones in their country?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook spends $40K on Xi Jinping dinner, Elon Musk attends $2K reception
Xi Jinping is in San Francisco this week, and five deep-pocketed US business moguls reportedly spent $40,000 each to dine at the same table as the Chinese president. Following an afternoon of talks…
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Wow this is Macrumors? This place has changed dramatically, for the worst. People here dont even know what Musk said or the context of it, let alone know what antisemitism even means.
I see your point but Musk already has a LONG history of very dark statements and actions (anti-semitic, racist, homophobic, anti-worker, and more), and the platform itself has quite a record of decline into an even bigger cesspool after Musk took over, directly in response to his actions. There was more than enough already there for Apple to sever ties. That said, it's good they did it along with many other companies and organizations.
Apple should of done this a while ago. Also Apple should just kick Twitter from the store for the same reasons they removed parlar.
There’s not a single antisemitic thing Musk said in those tweets. Why the gaslighting?
imagine accusing someone of not being capable of thinking for themselves by accusing them of learning something in gender studies. that’s the most played out dig imaginable.
but yeah, yOu’Re A fReE tHiNkEr
lol gaslighting? really??
anyways here’s an example. you know this comes right up on a web search if you actually want to find it.
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What a difficult and fraught time. The side that says all anti-zionism is antisemitism is very active, and has tremendous media clout. Meanwhile, the side that says it is possible to criticize Israel and NOT be antisemitic is also active, and gaining strength in a historical sense, tho it remains weak. But it is also transgressive. And, as Angela Nagle argued a few years back in "Kill All Normies," regarding 4chan, all socially transgressive movements are fraught with risk. Malcontents and genuine freaks can stealth-creep into the mix. Proverbial wolves in sheep's clothing. What to do?
It's going to get tough for us all now. Contradictions piling up all around. A lot of the freedom of speech defenders from a few months ago are genuine creeps. Yet, for better and for worse, we live in capitalism. And Elon Musk can apparently be pressured into a u-turn on a dime, by rainbow-flagged corporate advertisers, like Apple. Victory? Yes, in a way. But also clearly now a defeat. Because then Musk over-corrects, and "from the river to the sea" is now magically hate speech (even tho it is literally in the charter of the Likud Party).
This is what happens when we lose sight of our true North Star. A mature democratic society has to abide by several principles at once, and insist on their fundamental congruence:
It's going to get tough for us all now. Contradictions piling up all around. A lot of the freedom of speech defenders from a few months ago are genuine creeps. Yet, for better and for worse, we live in capitalism. And Elon Musk can apparently be pressured into a u-turn on a dime, by rainbow-flagged corporate advertisers, like Apple. Victory? Yes, in a way. But also clearly now a defeat. Because then Musk over-corrects, and "from the river to the sea" is now magically hate speech (even tho it is literally in the charter of the Likud Party).
This is what happens when we lose sight of our true North Star. A mature democratic society has to abide by several principles at once, and insist on their fundamental congruence:
- First, it doesn't suppress creeps. Cliché, perhaps, but it's always better to keep them in the sunshine.
- Second, it disempowers the natsec disinformation czars. They are not your friends, even if they appear to be.
- Third, it refuses to cede the power of arbitration over what constitutes acceptable speech to billionaires -- or, indeed, anyone.
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Yeah took me a while to see it as well and honestly this action by Musk really sickens me. Supposedly very smart tech guy makes this kind of mistake seems too amateurish to see it as such. It was intentful and even his own X executive called him out.
Now you know why iBooks was the first of many moves by Jobs' belief of real literature, liberal arts, and real news reporting. He took a VERY strong stance on that and I for one applauded that.
Yeah Apple is VERY hypocritical on so many issues like this. Really sours the brand quick frankly and many just choose to ignore it or maybe many just realize their benefit in the products they get is an acceptible norm or that they just have no power to make that change.
A top executive of any company having full integrity of character to match actions is very very few and far between to witness, and not for long.
Certainly there is. The gaslighting is coming from the people who don't know what antisemitism is, other than they're sure Elmo can't be doing it.
Nothing to do with this. Why are you trying to change the subject away from Elmo's antisemitism?
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