That legal head at Twitter:
She convinced then-CEO Jack Dorsey not to sell political advertisements during the 2020 United States presidential election.[1] She has spoken in defense of the decision by stating, “It wasn’t about anything other than, ‘This is the right thing to do for us as a company.'”[1]
A media company funded entirely by advertising should not take part in the quadrennial orgy of advertising?
What toss is this?
Plenty of advertising for one side only: block all mention of their scandals 🙂
Vijaya Gadde da vidda honey
Don’t you know that I’m lovin’ you
Vijaya Gadde da vidda baby
Don’t you know that I’ll always be true
Yeah, if they let TEAM BLUE advertise, they would have had to let TEAM RED advertise too, and they didn’t want that.
TRUMP IS EVIL!!!!! How could she possibly allow him and Putin to steal another election.
Or perhaps it was simply that she knew the plebs were soft headed. So the true and the blue (thank you Ted) would always vote for the right—-oops left, but the moronic untermensch might vote for the wrong if someone suggested it to them.
On the plus side, a company which only represents the lefty side of the argument and undermines and silences the rest has an enormous potential for growth.
Presumably, this is what Elon Musk observes and is simply cashing in on Twatter’s on self-imposed stagnation. A bit like a 1950’s lingerie company run by a bunch of prudish protestants suddenly being sold who enjoys the female form and believes it should be displayed to it’s fullest and sexiest extent.
Musk may just be getting a bargain.
Makes one wonder what else Twatter refuses to advertise? Baby formula, sugary drinks, diesel motors, Mexican divorces, meat, exclusive holidays, booze’n’fags, guns’n’ammo…
Not exposed so I have no idea, but it looks likely there’s billions left off the table.
Oops, sorry John Galt. You got there before me.
Censoring a major news story that was deeply consequential to a presidential election, though? Oh, that’s cool. So is banning the President while he’s still in office. Terrorist attack occurs in the U.S.? Welp, the President’s most accessible form of direct communication to the public is cut off. Our hands are tied. I mean, there were people sitting in Nancy’s chair on his watch, goddammit! Nancy’s chair!
Ahmedinejad? No prob.
Tell us again about this “right thing to do.”
“A bit like a 1950’s lingerie company run by a bunch of prudish protestants suddenly being sold who enjoys the female form and believes it should be displayed to it’s fullest and sexiest extent.”
I’m curious. Is this something that actually happened or just a metaphor?
14th April – Elon Musk makes a hard to resist $43bn bid for twitter.
19th April – European Commission publishes an update regarding revisions to the Code of Practice on Disinformation.
27th April – Department of Homeland Security sets up a Disinformation Governance Board to try to counter the spread of false information.
Behemoths can move surprisingly fast when threatened.
It was a reference to Jantzen who basically invented the bikini (they called it a two-piece) except they were too uptight to actually advertise it as sexually as their competitors did. Their competitors sold, theirs didn’t and they eventually went bust.
There is a scene in Mad Men where the Jantzen executives raise the problem with Don Draper and he called them “Prudes”. Pure fiction, obviously, but the underlying problem of Jantzen being embarrassed by their own product was true.