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[–] PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

The sequence of events from Elon Musk acquiring Twitter to now is an incredible journey.

  • Elon Musk bought a social media company for tens of billions, attempted to back out of the deal but couldn't because of his ineptitude by signing away the ability to reneg on the deal.^[1]

  • Then there was the freedom of speech advocacy from Musk where he ultimately unbanned racists and then began sharing bigoted Tweets. But it's only freedom of speech for his bigoted supporters, when authoritarian governments ask Musk to censor people/tweets he abides by their requests.^[2]

  • The site becomes inundated with the alt right, it's become rife with bigotry.^[3]

  • There was the whole verified blue check mark debacle where verification became something you could pay for, with people making fake "official" accounts. For example a fake account impersonating a pharmaceutical company caused their stock to drop abruptly following a satirical tweet.^[4]

  • Twitter engages in mass layoffs and multiple things break on the site. There are also reports that they can't pay rent in certain locations across the globe. Twitter is hemorrhaging advertisors, as they record a 59% reduction in advertisement sales.^[5]

  • Elon Musk posts tweets seemingly apologizing for some of the changes and says he will follow the will of the people by posting polls for users to vote on policy changes. Musk asks if he should step down, to which the majority vote in favour of his removal. He then goes on a tirade about bots after losing in the poll. He goes on to say that only paid subscribers will be permited to vote in future polls. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.^[6]

  • The crème de la crème is Elon Musk implementing a new restriction where you have to be logged in to see tweets and restricting the number of tweets you can view. Inadvertently DDOSing his own site.

  1. New York Times - Why Elon Musk Can’t Back Out of Buying Twitter, According to Twitter

  2. Forbes - Twitter Has Complied With Almost Every Government Request For Censorship Since Musk Took Over, Report Finds

  3. The Atlantic -Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network

  4. Forbes - Fake Eli Lilly Twitter Account Claims Insulin Is Free, Stock Falls 4.37%

  5. New York Times - Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue

  6. The Guardian - Elon Musk breaks silence after 10 million Twitter users vote for him to step down

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy shit, welcome you mad legend. Glad you made it to the other side.

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You know Lemmy's legit when it's gotten PoppinKREAM's seal of approval.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know anyone that write his comment in academic style is at least 10 times smarter than I but who's they?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think at one point poppin said she was a woman.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I shouldn't have assumed. :)

[–] HostilePasta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoa PoppinKREAM is on Lemmy now? I knew I made the correct choice. Welcome, legend.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Is this real? It doesn't feel real...

[–] hatedbad@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

don’t forget that the new CEO, hired to bring advertisers back, has a non-compete clause preventing her from working with advertisers

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That whole not paying rent thing becomes even murkier when you dive into one of his many other lawsuits.

  1. Elon doesn't pay rent, one member of the transition team told Hawkins. Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.
  2. Both Killian and Hawkins were told that for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it when that amount came due that Musk operated on a zero cost basis"

And

  1. Between the demands that he effectively participate in theft and fraud and instructions to take actions inviolation of California law and that could put his colleagues lives at risk in the event of a fire a possibility only increased by the unlicensed use of space heaters Killian had no choice but to walk away from the job he had dedicated over a decade of his life to .
[–] PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, thanks for the source! Oh my goodness, this is awful. I'll have to go through this court filing.

[–] 666happyfuntime@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It truly has been a wonderful ride, is amazing that Spez could pull away last second and destroy reddit right before musk pulls this shit. 8 do thing when is all said and done musk will have fucked himself the hardest .. I think anything can happen

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The gems are is the post. The gold is in the comments.

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah PoppinKREAM is on Lemmy. We've made it boys!

[–] lokoluis15@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You know we're in the right place when these golden PoppinKREAM posts are here.

Platforms are nothing without these true internet content creators.

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, it's poppinkream!

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

TIL that Lemmy supports references. What a neat feature.

[–] Mellibird@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Omfg you're here! I'm so fucking excited now! I would always read through your such well written and referenced comments!!! This is such an exciting moment!

[–] kubijoe@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder if we will get the Internet Historian feature-length special about it or some dude will generate it with AI first.

[–] ShlorpianMafia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would like to award your comment with one lemmy gold🏅

[–] kronicmage@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow this really feels like reddit again. High quality comment followed by low effort award post. All we need now is an award speech edit

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

🏅🏅 I’m feeling generous, have two on me