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In reply to the discussion: NAACP Derrick Johnson calls for total advertising boycott on Twitter after meeting with Elon Musk [View all]
ancianita
(43,309 posts)19. Me neither. I hide them left and right on FB, stipulating that I don't want to see them on my feed.
All true. Thanks for pointing out how we can change what AI shows us. 
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NAACP Derrick Johnson calls for total advertising boycott on Twitter after meeting with Elon Musk [View all]
Nevilledog
Nov 2022
OP
Not defending Musk, just to be clear. He is running a communications platform business.
ancianita
Nov 2022
#8
Me neither. I hide them left and right on FB, stipulating that I don't want to see them on my feed.
ancianita
Nov 2022
#19
Totally agree with your thorough and eloquently stated thoughts. It's become clear to millions.
ancianita
Nov 2022
#15
mostly agree, but we are not only not doomed if they get in there is a huge opportunity to destroy
certainot
Nov 2022
#35
i don't think it's 'human nature', i think it's sex on the wrong brain driving this authoritarianism
certainot
Nov 2022
#46
funny yes. lots of opportunity for comedy. but that book should be banned! especially in iran
certainot
Nov 2022
#53
LOL. Cannabis is already legal recreationally in Colorado, and legalization of
PatrickforB
Nov 2022
#57
Thanks, there's all that, too. Republicans & corporatists suddenly sound like christians and
ancianita
Nov 2022
#24
I am signed out but I can still read the posts...he is allowing 'kill the Jews' posts and
Demsrule86
Nov 2022
#26
"technically correct to have a business model policy of allowing free speech." Not if it fails.
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#38
"Not if it fails" is yet to be known. I'm no Twitter or Musk fan, but DU'ers can't just wish it away
ancianita
Nov 2022
#45
It will be interesting to see what happens with so much institutional knowledge removed.
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#51
Of course you have to read the number of twitter users in each country. If you call that digging.
ancianita
Nov 2022
#56
If there's a buck to be made on twit these advertisers will be back. It's up to people
in2herbs
Nov 2022
#2
I'm losing around 30 followers a day; nearly all are real people I've interacted with.
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#39
If that happened (it's happening, but not quite en masse yet), Musk would spend tomorrow
Emrys
Nov 2022
#47
And his folks owned an emerald mine, an industry that helped drive the racism.
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#40
I block all ads at the home network level & again at the browser level, except for sites I like
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#41
You make him sound like a private equity company that extracts all value, cuts costs to the bone and
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#42
Really does feel like he's a private equity company destroying a long time company, doesn't it?
NullTuples
Nov 2022
#43
Advertisers might wait and see what sort of people use twitter going forward
IronLionZion
Nov 2022
#31