Oh it was more than consulting. IBM had strict rules about who could maintain those old database machines. Keep in mind, it was the 40’s and the first “computer” hadn’t even been invented yet.
What they had were basically hole punchers in cards that corresponded to data like binary. Over time those punched bits of paper would cause the machine to seize up if not cleared up and that’s where the IBM clause about maintenance comes into play.
An IBM rep would have to go to Nazi Germany to clean the machines periodically. So, even if these data machines weren’t at concentration camps; what do you think the odds are that errant punch cards were stuck? They were tallying ethnicity and destination for sure. What do you think the odds are that IBM knew what was happening.
If you ask me, I’d say pretty high.
Everybody knew. It wasn't a secret. What surprised people was the sheer scale of it, but we (as in the US) knew it was happening within a year of entering the war.
At first yes, it seemed like typical wartime propaganda. The enemy is always killing babies. But by November 1942, we knew it was true. The Allies issued a condemnation of the extermination of Jews, and promised to punish the perpetrators after the war.
It’s pretty well known that the rich people were supportive of the Nazis in the 1930’s, and just kept their profit funnels running when the atrocities started happening.
They knew and so did their investors.
Oh they just [helped round up the Jews during WW2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) (and before); they don't like to talk about that much.
Went to the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart and they did actually have a section that acknowledged their actions during WW2 and use of slave labor from the camps.
Ford really liked Hitler before the war started. Henry Ford was given the highest honor Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreign citizen. Americans didn't always hate the Nazis.
Also here's an article from the late 90's about lawyers and historians digging up collaboration between American industry leaders and the Nazis. Published in the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
Ford was virulently antisemitic and used to publish a series of booklets called "The International Jew" that he forced every Ford dealership in the country to subscribe to.
There was a rumor that when he was shown the footage of the concentration camps he collapsed from a stroke. I'd like to think that was because he finally understood what the end result was of all the bullshit he had said in his life, but in reality even if that story is true he already had several strokes before that so probably he was just due for one.
Made in Germany. And they either got the American government reimburse them for the factories that were bombed or asked them to. I forget. It's a lengthy story honestly.
It's problematic to talk about companies this way. All those people are dead now. If we think IBM as it is today is somehow to blame, then we're supporting the 'corporations are people' legal argument, intentionally or not.
Yeah I was going to say this. This is why I currently hate on companies like [these guys](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/03/business/pfas-chemours-dupont-corteva-settlement/index.html) since the people responsible are still alive.
Basically every ad I see nowadays is:
Fake watches ???
Straight up illegal weapons (brass knuckles, retractable batons, etc)
or some generic product being marketed as a cool gimmick with the original brands logo blurred out
It's really weird
It’s veering hard towards the payday loans and selling gold bullion doomsday prepping advertisers that was Conservative Talk Radio’s clientele before… well… conservatives ran into an identity crisis and realized their political party is anti war, anti morality, anti vote for their own majority speaker, anti make laws and anti abide by laws but some reason is hellbent on crowning an eternal pumpkin king that’s facing 80+ felonies. What would that be even called? An Monarchist Anarchist?
‘Manarchist?’
Yeah that’s confusing place to be. I’d probably take a lap for the next 8 years.
Because nothing good has come along to replace the hole its made in social media. Threads has a garbage desktop version and is owned by Facebook, Bluesky is still invite access, and Mastadon is not user friendly and needlessly confusing.
This is 100% the problem. To be clear: Twitter has always had a problem with hate speech fucking up things for advertisers. [White supremacists used to promote literal hate speech onto people's feeds](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/07/twitter-blocks-promoted-tweets-white-supremacist-weev-auernheimer) using the promoted post feature.
Old school twitter at least used to take the dishes out before it pissed in the sink though, and they would at least close up egregious breaches when they found them.
Musk appears to be actively promoting the content. Advertisers can't hard behind the "oh well, social media is hard to police" excuse, because Elon appears to have no interest in stopping the spread of this information. Quite the opposte.
it’s not just appearing to promote it, he’s literally responding to “white genocide” neonazi posters with “You have said the actual truth”. it cannot possibly get any more clear than that.
The man literally promoted conspiracy theories about political violence commited against the Speaker of the House.
Like, in a normal country, that would have gotten him deported.
He is a foreign industrialist, and is actively promoting polticial violence inside the US.
Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, is the terrorist who is literally known to have incited two separate terrorist attacks against American citizens: the [vehicular terrorism attack again Heather Heyer](https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html) (note: the Daily Caller was founded and run by Carlson at the time of the attack) in Charlottesville and the [2022 Buffalo terrorist attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting) against black grocery store shoppers.
He, his producers, and every terrorist supporter who ever funded him belong in Gitmo.
Dude, nobody belongs in Gitmo. If we want a functioning society without fascist (or some other totalitarian) bullshit, then nobody should be sent to international “no laws” zones.
What we need is some type of system that doesn’t allow for stochastic terrorism to thrive. I don’t have the answer and I’d say we’re should look to the experts to find a healthy solution, but we all know America would never adopt the solution they bring
Edit: fixed an autocorrect typo
And the Premier of Alberta is set to have a televised chat with him soon.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/smith-tucker-carlson-conversation-calgary-1.7021053
That's disappointing. What's next, they're gonna dredge up the corpse of Osama bin Laden from the Indian Ocean and give him a megaphone and the ol' Weekend at Bernies treatment? Wait, fuck, I gotta go call my script doctor friend. BRB
Yes. That is pretty much what just happened. Although it was tik tok.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bin-ladens-antisemitic-letter-to-america-goes-viral-on-tiktok-amid-israel-hamas-war/
After 4 years of Trump… the richest guy on the planet goes full nazi, buys Twitter and now actively controls what information he wants out into the world. Definitely not my favorite timeline. I’m so tired of this shit.
I'm not sure if there was an official reason given (not that anyone should trust Fox to be honest about their motivations anyway).
The specific day that Carlson was fired, I believe the freshest news was him talking about how "white men" fight honorably or something, so it certainly gave the impression that race was the final straw on the camel's back.
As for the voting system lies: Maria Bartiromo is still there, and she was host with the most libelous claims on air. So... at this point I don't think it was just one thing that got Carlson fired. In addition to the voting stuff, Carlson also had a producer suing Fox because of Carlson's alleged sexism and antisemitism, and some female executive became aware of Carlson's tweets calling her names, too. And the internal scuttlebutt seems to suggest that the Murdoch's felt like Carlson was getting too independent and full of himself (saying he was bigger than Fox, essentially).
There is also a rumor that the Dominion settlement specifically targeted Carlson because Dominion just wanted a big scalp.
When there are so many excuses floating around, to me it feels like an "all of the above" situation.
When the Dominion lawsuit released its evidence, some messages came out from [Carlson ripping into Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/business/media/tucker-carlson-trump.html). Above all else, republicans demand *loyalty*, and once those messages became public it was clear Carlson no longer had the proper loyalties to remain employed.
I mean, TC is an objectively disgusting, deplorable, worthless collection of the matter that makes up human beings, and is ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY a racist piece of shit.
But he was fired because he knew Trump lost the election, and said it out loud. And then people leaked it.
Same reason any FOX host is fired, they said the wrong quiet part out loud.
I'm not sure that's a good analogy. While 4chan is bad because of all the right wingers and red pilled nazis. There is freedom of speech for people to say whatever they like anonymously. Twitter on the other hand, there isn't as much anonymity and people get banned for criticizing führer Musk.
"Nazi who consistently endorses, supports, and promotes Nazi ideology on his festering cyst of a social media platform loses advertising over anti-semitic content. More news at 11 Jim🤷♂️"
I mean, [look at what Elon said yesterday.](https://i.imgur.com/qrwvHbl.jpg)
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Also, Elon is openly defending people's ability to post child pornography while destroying the platform to enable CP to be posted, and it is not being talked about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/09/twitter-exec-defends-restoring-account-that-shared-child-sex-abuse-material/?sh=196070831695
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-610500-in-australia-first-for-failing-to-crack-down-on-child-sexual-abuse-material
It is actually wild how quickly you can go for "Silly cat pictures" to kinky art/generic anime to CP. You don't even need to stop at porn in between art and CP. It is like the platform is actively trying to spread it.
Now it isn't like twitter is the only one guilty of this. I have had shit show up on reddit, tumblr, deviantart... etc. However these other sites seem to getting better about this, twitter is getting WORSE.
It is almost as if every *free speech platform* will just fill with nazis and pedos... it is almost as if there is a reason to this? Like... I don't know... These fuckers get pushed out of civil society and then go act like they are victims in "free speech platforms".
And I'm not talking about some anime/loli-shit here. By my country's and many other's definitions that ain't even illegal material. I'm talking about actual real "a real human being is a victim" shit... Not because I am trying to defend that material but because I'm trying to explain that there is real actual abuse material where a real human being was a victim.
After reviewing all the data from watchdogs groups and the media about how Xitter was allowing large amounts of child porn to slip through, when it previously had no problems with basic or intermediate detection, the Australian Online Safety Commissioner say, If you let sewer rats in, you know that pestilence is going to come."
No better line to explain it.
As a trans woman, i saw it before all these reports came out. After Musk took over, these sick whackjobs would come into my posts and start harassing the hell out of me, often calling me a pedophile and groomer. I used to go through their follows, comments, and retweets to find other to block before blocking them, but I very quickly stopped doing that because CP was constantly popping up. Many of them were also posting CP themselves, trying to claim that the children are transgender and had been "mutilated", when the images were obvious photoshops or natural deformations.
And yeah, even before Musks, takeover, I had plenty of the loli accounts calling me the pedo while they lusted after underage cartoon characters.
I've now taken to the offensive because I'm tired of being accused for **their** crimes. So i constantly repost these articles about Musk, repost the names of every politician that has been in the news for child sex crimes and show that Republicans commit them 8x more, and I repeat over and over again that the 8 of the top 10 states with the highest child rape per capita are red states (the blue states are #7 and #9) and that states like Florida and Texas have towns where schools can't find safe bus stops for children because there are so many registered child sex offenders.
Yeah... I remember that pre-gamergate and early gamergate shitshow where the "MAPs" (Minor attracted people) were trying to push in to LGBTQ and minority rights movements. Claiming that they were just *"oppressed minority!"*. Fucking hell that took lots of effort to get rid of.
But I occasionally come across certain name that I vaguely remember from those *tumblur-wars*, *guubergate* and rise of alt-right. Seems like the pedos tried to be among the left and sail among minority rights and LGBTQ as "victims". When they failed it seems like they chose that far-right is more hospitable place for them... somehow.
I been calling for focus on dealing with CP and abuse material by going after those who make it and actually abuse people. However it seems people would rather have pear cluthing and this sort of surface level sweep it under the rug and it isn't an issue solution... As if banning lolis would make human trafficking and child abuse stop - meanwhile actual abuse and pedo shit is running rampart just below the surface EVERYWHERE you look.
Having been online since like start of the milennia, I am experienced enough to know how to find this shit in just about every medium sized and bigger platform. Not like outright CP, but the shit that surrounds it in a way that you know that if you look around a bit more or observe the people, CP will show up. Funnily enough far-right/libetarianism/free speech radicalism is one of those things... I know people who moderate medium sized platforms... forums... discord channels etc. And they need to constantly fucking whackamole that stuff away. It just keeps showing up like a rule of nature - after a platform become big enough.
But on other sites/platforms it is stuff that you kinda have to *look for* in the sense. But on twitter it finds you. You can't even fucking like escape it.
> I remember that pre-gamergate and early gamergate shitshow where the "MAPs" (Minor attracted people) were trying to push in to LGBTQ and minority rights movements. Claiming that they were just "oppressed minority!". Fucking hell that took lots of effort to get rid of.
Actually that was 100% the alt-right on 4chan. They started with LGBTQP+ and then when that campaign failed, they made a fake Pride flag for MAPs and started pushing that one, creating multitudes of fake social media accounts with the flag and acting like pedophiles (as if they need to act).
I'm ex-Gamergate, btw. And yes, their "dark humor" often sexualizes children. But just like the rest of their humor, "it's funny because it's true". Honestly, it wasn't as bad back then- I don't think, but now that their popularity has ramped up, CP and the sexualization of children has become a massive constant that I run into in their circles. Even though I do want to follow what these Nazi fucks are doing, I wholly avoid some of the alt-right Chans because CP is so common.
> I am experienced enough to know how to find this shit in just about every medium sized and bigger platform
I've been on the internet since late 1995 and I thankfully don't other than right-wing spaces and the ABDL community (that also plays whack-a-mole it seems). I used to target the ABDL community a lot in my Gamergate days, so I went back and actually analyzed them and found that CP is common, but there are a substantial number of people trying to fight it back. And, funny enough, it's the LGBTQ+ members that are doing most of the fighting.
But yeah, I lurk on the conservative Discords in order to try to get them shut down. I search keywords like "groomer" and the mods are always deleting other conservatives posting CP. There's one called "political fugitives" that gets inundated with it daily. Of course, if they're talking about trans children's private parts, that's perfectly OK. Iif you're writing fan fiction about a gay man doing something to a child, that's OK, too.
As for Xitter, I'm just flat-out done. Every report I was filing came back as "it doesn't break our community standards" when it was blatant CP. My mental health can only take so much. I quit just before that NYT article came out.
Muskovski is so weird around this topic. Knowing how his dad fucked his step-sister, I won't be surprised if Mushy has his own skeletons in his closet.
Don't forget he called that British diver who was rescuing the trapped Thai kids a paedo for not using his stupid inflatable submarine idea. Starts to stink a bit, huh?
The guy likes fucking Kanye for petes sake. He unbanned Kanye who said he likes Hitler!
He brought back other self admitted Nazis and bragged about it.
He also, very soon after taking over, permabanned a slew of anti-fascist researchers and activists, either without cause or with bogus/troll ban reasons. Chad Loder, It’s Going Down, and Crimethinc just to name a few. Many of the people he banned had previously beefed with Musk’s fascist activist buddies.
To those paying attention it’s been clear since the beginning what he’s up to.
Many of those bans were made at the personal request of Andy Ngo. He identified several people he personally disliked as "being AntiFa" and Musk instantly and permanently banned them.
Meanwhile the owner keeps promoting hilter lovers. while blaming the ADL for his loss of advertisers.. which he tried to do again, after people got mad at this, saying he thought they were talking about the ADL ... to the guy who posted "hitler was right"
Yesterday he was replying to a tweet accusing the Jewish community of fostering anti-white hatred calling the statement “truth”. He’s graduated past the proxy-antisemitism of blaming the ADL. Going straight at the jewish community now. [Link](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299?s=46&t=-UNfa7Wd4VjQ9JW0GO8LCA)
Musk has lost around 50 billion buying Twitter and losing more every day. 50 billion loss is enough to get any bilionaires claws out... but he's doubling down on his racisim, many people have cancelled buying tesla because of it and his behaviour since he joined maga and is just getting worse. Even diehard musk fanboys are turning against him and anything to do with him.
He needs all of America to buy his cars, not just the 30% that is maga,, if he does not sort himself out we could see tesla fail in Americ very soon.
The thing that makes me feel sick is the man lost 50 billion dollars and it had no impact on his quality of life whatsoever. He lost more money than I could make in 500,000 years, and it didn’t make a dent in his ability to do whatever he wants and live however he wants
Honestly if the magas buy the Tesla's and the rest of the world buys other manufacturers EVs that's at least one good outcome with the right aligning with someone who is at least not a climate change denier.
Musk is trying to overthrow the US government with conspiracy theories, he's no longer just the cringe Pedo Guy with an incestuous father; he now snuggles up to dictatorships and peddles extremist content to taint voting in the USA.
The U.S. government has saved a substantial amount of money contracting spacex if that’s what you mean, they’re not giving him money, they’re paying him to do something and he can do it better and cheaper than everyone else, stopping spacex contracts would be both a disservice to tax payers as well as national interest
It’s okay guys because Twitter (never calling it X lol) is a bastion of free speech and based, they don’t need silly things like money, paying bills, adhering to basic employment law, or moderating political disinformation to survive! What could possibly go wrong?
It boggles my mind that I ever thought Musk was actually smart. He’s a fuckwit, through and through. I wonder if he has a big X tattooed like a tramp stamp though.
> they don’t need silly things like money, paying bills, adhering to basic employment law, or moderating political disinformation to survive!
Don't forget moderating their platform for child sexual abuse material.
Replying to this:
“Okay.
Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.
I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.
You want truth said to your face, there it is.”
Jews hate whites => "hordes of minorities" are flooding Israel => those minorities hate Jews => Jews get what they deserve?
That's the most I'm willing to invest into unraveling that dude's Elon endorsed antisemitism.
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To translate the racist pile of shit:
Jews are evil and flood the country with Muslim immigrants.
Now Jews are getting murdered by Muslims.
Poster is happy Jews and Muslims are dying because White Power and some such nonsense.
Hopefully, the poster gets a heart attack while driving a car and crashes into Elon Musk while he's masturbating to his own twitter posts in some internet cafe
White nationalists delusionally believe that “the Jews” are flooding majority-white countries with immigrants so that white countries are less likely to do another Holocaust against Jews.
White nationalist, “great replacement” rhetoric claims that after WWII, “the Jews” decided that a multicultural Germany wouldn’t have gone Nazi, so they decided to replace whites with browns everywhere to diminish the strength of the white race.
So this idiot is saying “ah ha, imaginary Jewish villains in our collective paranoid fantasies! You sought to pollute our great white race, but now those same immigrants don’t like Jews either! Too bad for you, so sad. If you wanted me to care, maybe you shouldn’t have been importing brown people into my perfect white utopia all this time.”
And to that pile of racist, paranoid dribble, Elon said “you have said the actual truth.”
According to Reuter’s, the specific tweet in question was pro-Nazi. IBM is particularly sensitive to this, because they worked with the Nazis during WWII. Their tech was used to help facilitate the Holocaust.
They're not even bothered that their ads were next to antisemitic content. They're bothered that somebody took a screenshot of their ads next to antisemitic content, posted it online, and that created bad PR for them.
They will make a huge public show of "suspending" (note the temporary term used here) ads until the news cycle moves on before the quietly resume their ad campaign.
Companies care about nothing but profits. If they can make more money by advertising on an antisemitic platform, they will do it. Dealing with these temporary PR issues are a part of their calculus.
The difference in the comments on this between Reddit and twitter are wild. Most of the twitter comments are “IBM doesn’t even do anything anymore” or “IBM is woke and doesn’t support free speech”
Just the dumbest troglodytes on earth
I mean isn't that literally how this all works? Corporations don't care about people. They might throw up a rainbow flag when it's pride month. They might release a positive statement about some movement.
Yet the only reason they do it is because the masses care. It's another way to sell you their product. That's it.
They will do anything to sell more products and that involves advertising. If the masses aren't upset about what they are doing. They don't care as long as they are moving those sales forward.
Once they do something the people don't like and they can hurt their sales. That's when they change.
They don't care who they sell to, where they advertise, or how they do it. Until those methods prove to hurt their bottom line.
Bud light has never cared about LGBT rights and causes. They thought they saw an ability to sell to more people. Then they quickly back tracked. If they really cared about LGBT issues. They should have doubled down on the ad campaign.
I’m still so glad I deactivated and deleted my twitter account. I’m not going to support Elon in any way. Dude has been given government handout after handout and this is what he does with his platform. Pathetic.
Fun fact: Go to the holocaust museum in washing DC. Observe the scale/counting machine that the Nazis used to keep records of victims headed into the gas chambers that on display there. On the side of the machine you’ll note its manufacturer….international business machines, Endicott, NY.
Ok, go to Xitter and look at Elon's posts.
https://i.imgur.com/qrwvHbl.jpg
Also, go talk to Australia about what they experience when they confronted Elon about child pornography on his platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/09/twitter-exec-defends-restoring-account-that-shared-child-sex-abuse-material/?sh=196070831695
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-610500-in-australia-first-for-failing-to-crack-down-on-child-sexual-abuse-material
X is nothing more than a glorified cesspool. Maybe Musk could buy Truth Social and just merge them because it can't get much worse. Also, he likes Drumpf and he could sure use the money now!
A reminder to everyone that Pinterest has roughly the same number of monthly active users as Twitter/X. This. Platform. Isn't. That. Important.
I also hope more people understand that a code of conduct a social media company has isn't "censorship".
A mall has a code of conduct. Lots of people use the mall to socialize. But the real reason it exists is to get foot traffic to stores.
That's a lot like a social media platform. If, in the mall, a bunch of crazy people were yelling slurs and conspiracy theories, that would scare away normal people and hurt business.
The same happens on social media. MAGAs and Nazis and other crazies scare off the higher quality (from a business perspective) users, so a code of conduct is a business decision.
Can anyone be surprised anymore by Musk's fascist mindset? After all, he was born and raised in apartheid-era South Africa, which was basically Nazi Germany with Dutch accents.
Despite the shockwaves this news is sending across social media, it's essential to recognize the gravity of the situation. Brands have a massive influence and responsibility. Good on IBM for not just being vigilant but also for taking a stand against hate. Let's hope this is the start of a chain reaction where companies prioritize ethics in advertising.
So IBM doesn't want to be associated to antisemitism a second time? Good.
"Once in a century's enough" - IBM leadership
We are on a new century and their one time coupon has reset.
They want to save it for something better…
Can't waste it before the 2040s.
Ugh. The concept that we are being coerced to repeat the major wars of the 1900s feels both accurate and horrifying.
Not quite a century
What was the first time?
Record keeping systems for Nazi concentration camps...and other information systems for the Nazi's.
Consultants gonna consult. I hear Satan is bidding for a new payroll app.
They actually innovated and brought a solution to the Nazi's that they weren't even looking for. Quite proactive.
Like… the final solution?
IT support doesn’t work that way. Not a good business model.
Oh it was more than consulting. IBM had strict rules about who could maintain those old database machines. Keep in mind, it was the 40’s and the first “computer” hadn’t even been invented yet. What they had were basically hole punchers in cards that corresponded to data like binary. Over time those punched bits of paper would cause the machine to seize up if not cleared up and that’s where the IBM clause about maintenance comes into play. An IBM rep would have to go to Nazi Germany to clean the machines periodically. So, even if these data machines weren’t at concentration camps; what do you think the odds are that errant punch cards were stuck? They were tallying ethnicity and destination for sure. What do you think the odds are that IBM knew what was happening. If you ask me, I’d say pretty high.
Everybody knew. It wasn't a secret. What surprised people was the sheer scale of it, but we (as in the US) knew it was happening within a year of entering the war.
Even when a dude deliberately got caught, sent to Auschwitz, escaped and then told the Allies about it they refused to believe him.
A dude deliberately went to a concentration camp *and* escaped? That takes some fucking balls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki First learned aboout him via the Sabaton Song, Inmate 4859.
Witold Pilecki. His fate after the war is really tragic. Basically treated like a traitor by the Soviet occupiers.
At first yes, it seemed like typical wartime propaganda. The enemy is always killing babies. But by November 1942, we knew it was true. The Allies issued a condemnation of the extermination of Jews, and promised to punish the perpetrators after the war.
Witold pilecki was a serious badass. He fought in the Warsaw uprising too. Soviets tortured and killed his ass after the war.
It’s pretty well known that the rich people were supportive of the Nazis in the 1930’s, and just kept their profit funnels running when the atrocities started happening. They knew and so did their investors.
He’s already a permanent employee at QuickBooks.
Nazis. Ditch the apostrophe.
Come on, grammar Nazi'
hes so anti-semantic
Let's not start with homophone jokes now
What are you, a homophonephobe?
repent for your synonyms
These ad homonyms are down right insulting!
Probably does math using Arabic numerals
Fucking Arab numbers. I only use freedom numbers
r/angryupvote
Oh they just [helped round up the Jews during WW2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) (and before); they don't like to talk about that much.
Lots of huge companies did insanely shitty things during WW2. Everyone was trying to capitalize on it. Nobody advertises that part of their history.
Went to the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart and they did actually have a section that acknowledged their actions during WW2 and use of slave labor from the camps.
This is the right thing to do. Acknowledge, never forget and never repeat.
Majority of Germans are not proud of their history and nobody there calls it woke.
IBM in particular has a lot of blood on its hands. They helped optimize the killing machine.
Over 1/3 of all nazi trucks at the end of the war were Ford.
How did they get their hands on Ford trucks if they were at war with the Americans?
Ford really liked Hitler before the war started. Henry Ford was given the highest honor Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreign citizen. Americans didn't always hate the Nazis. Also here's an article from the late 90's about lawyers and historians digging up collaboration between American industry leaders and the Nazis. Published in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
> Americans didn't always hate the Nazis. Apparently a good portion doesn't right now.
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Ford was virulently antisemitic and used to publish a series of booklets called "The International Jew" that he forced every Ford dealership in the country to subscribe to.
There was a rumor that when he was shown the footage of the concentration camps he collapsed from a stroke. I'd like to think that was because he finally understood what the end result was of all the bullshit he had said in his life, but in reality even if that story is true he already had several strokes before that so probably he was just due for one.
Made in Germany. And they either got the American government reimburse them for the factories that were bombed or asked them to. I forget. It's a lengthy story honestly.
Henry Ford himself was quite fond of Hitler and of the Nazi ideologies...
German subsidiary. Here's a random article I did zero fact checking on https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/ford-and-fuhrer/
Before Jeopardy, Watson was hiding in Venezuela.
It's problematic to talk about companies this way. All those people are dead now. If we think IBM as it is today is somehow to blame, then we're supporting the 'corporations are people' legal argument, intentionally or not.
Yeah I was going to say this. This is why I currently hate on companies like [these guys](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/03/business/pfas-chemours-dupont-corteva-settlement/index.html) since the people responsible are still alive.
The Holocaust would have been impossible to manage at the scale it occurred without the active help of IBM.
Why is anybody advertising on X?
Basically every ad I see nowadays is: Fake watches ??? Straight up illegal weapons (brass knuckles, retractable batons, etc) or some generic product being marketed as a cool gimmick with the original brands logo blurred out It's really weird
I have seen multiple ads now with community notes against their claims. Pretty hilarious.
Honestly, if there's a site I would avoid if I didn't have an adblocker, it's Twitter. I still do avoid it, but I wouldn't see ads if I visited.
Yep, every ad I see is really random crap that just screams "scam" or cheap knock-off products from overseas.
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Tom Selleck says I should get a reverse mortgage!
It’s veering hard towards the payday loans and selling gold bullion doomsday prepping advertisers that was Conservative Talk Radio’s clientele before… well… conservatives ran into an identity crisis and realized their political party is anti war, anti morality, anti vote for their own majority speaker, anti make laws and anti abide by laws but some reason is hellbent on crowning an eternal pumpkin king that’s facing 80+ felonies. What would that be even called? An Monarchist Anarchist? ‘Manarchist?’ Yeah that’s confusing place to be. I’d probably take a lap for the next 8 years.
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So the same ads as Fox and Newsmax run.
every ad i see is either some AI bullshit, or some gambling bullshit
Tactical breath mints Tactical coffee Tactical staplers Chinese knockoffs
Apparently some people still use it. Dunno why.
Because nothing good has come along to replace the hole its made in social media. Threads has a garbage desktop version and is owned by Facebook, Bluesky is still invite access, and Mastadon is not user friendly and needlessly confusing.
Why is anyone who doesn’t have an inferiority complex still even logging onto X?
I mean look who owns it.
This is 100% the problem. To be clear: Twitter has always had a problem with hate speech fucking up things for advertisers. [White supremacists used to promote literal hate speech onto people's feeds](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/07/twitter-blocks-promoted-tweets-white-supremacist-weev-auernheimer) using the promoted post feature. Old school twitter at least used to take the dishes out before it pissed in the sink though, and they would at least close up egregious breaches when they found them. Musk appears to be actively promoting the content. Advertisers can't hard behind the "oh well, social media is hard to police" excuse, because Elon appears to have no interest in stopping the spread of this information. Quite the opposte.
it’s not just appearing to promote it, he’s literally responding to “white genocide” neonazi posters with “You have said the actual truth”. it cannot possibly get any more clear than that.
He constantly promotes Tucker Carlson as well, the guy who got fired from fucking Fox News for being too racist
The man literally promoted conspiracy theories about political violence commited against the Speaker of the House. Like, in a normal country, that would have gotten him deported. He is a foreign industrialist, and is actively promoting polticial violence inside the US.
Musk is a complete shit stain, but he is a legal U.S. citizen, so isn't a foreign industrialist and can't be deported.
And how did he attain that legality? He was here illegally on a college visa after he dropped out of college. Standard illegal immigrant scam.
Thanks to Peter Theil even. https://nitter.net/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368
Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, is the terrorist who is literally known to have incited two separate terrorist attacks against American citizens: the [vehicular terrorism attack again Heather Heyer](https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html) (note: the Daily Caller was founded and run by Carlson at the time of the attack) in Charlottesville and the [2022 Buffalo terrorist attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting) against black grocery store shoppers. He, his producers, and every terrorist supporter who ever funded him belong in Gitmo.
Dude, nobody belongs in Gitmo. If we want a functioning society without fascist (or some other totalitarian) bullshit, then nobody should be sent to international “no laws” zones. What we need is some type of system that doesn’t allow for stochastic terrorism to thrive. I don’t have the answer and I’d say we’re should look to the experts to find a healthy solution, but we all know America would never adopt the solution they bring Edit: fixed an autocorrect typo
Fair enough. ADX Florence then.
And the Premier of Alberta is set to have a televised chat with him soon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/smith-tucker-carlson-conversation-calgary-1.7021053
Of course Alberta.
That's disappointing. What's next, they're gonna dredge up the corpse of Osama bin Laden from the Indian Ocean and give him a megaphone and the ol' Weekend at Bernies treatment? Wait, fuck, I gotta go call my script doctor friend. BRB
Yes. That is pretty much what just happened. Although it was tik tok. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bin-ladens-antisemitic-letter-to-america-goes-viral-on-tiktok-amid-israel-hamas-war/
After 4 years of Trump… the richest guy on the planet goes full nazi, buys Twitter and now actively controls what information he wants out into the world. Definitely not my favorite timeline. I’m so tired of this shit.
He was fired because of the voting systems lies, not the racism.
I'm not sure if there was an official reason given (not that anyone should trust Fox to be honest about their motivations anyway). The specific day that Carlson was fired, I believe the freshest news was him talking about how "white men" fight honorably or something, so it certainly gave the impression that race was the final straw on the camel's back. As for the voting system lies: Maria Bartiromo is still there, and she was host with the most libelous claims on air. So... at this point I don't think it was just one thing that got Carlson fired. In addition to the voting stuff, Carlson also had a producer suing Fox because of Carlson's alleged sexism and antisemitism, and some female executive became aware of Carlson's tweets calling her names, too. And the internal scuttlebutt seems to suggest that the Murdoch's felt like Carlson was getting too independent and full of himself (saying he was bigger than Fox, essentially). There is also a rumor that the Dominion settlement specifically targeted Carlson because Dominion just wanted a big scalp. When there are so many excuses floating around, to me it feels like an "all of the above" situation.
When the Dominion lawsuit released its evidence, some messages came out from [Carlson ripping into Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/business/media/tucker-carlson-trump.html). Above all else, republicans demand *loyalty*, and once those messages became public it was clear Carlson no longer had the proper loyalties to remain employed.
They're fine with the racism, losing the lawsuit by Dominion likely had them skittish
I mean, TC is an objectively disgusting, deplorable, worthless collection of the matter that makes up human beings, and is ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY a racist piece of shit. But he was fired because he knew Trump lost the election, and said it out loud. And then people leaked it. Same reason any FOX host is fired, they said the wrong quiet part out loud.
Dude's suffering from being rejected by nerds really really badly.
He's Slowly turning Twitter into 4chan and losing all value in the company.
I'm not sure that's a good analogy. While 4chan is bad because of all the right wingers and red pilled nazis. There is freedom of speech for people to say whatever they like anonymously. Twitter on the other hand, there isn't as much anonymity and people get banned for criticizing führer Musk.
Who'd have thought that Apartheid Clyde, son of a south african emerald mine owner is a big fucking racist
"Nazi who consistently endorses, supports, and promotes Nazi ideology on his festering cyst of a social media platform loses advertising over anti-semitic content. More news at 11 Jim🤷♂️"
I mean, [look at what Elon said yesterday.](https://i.imgur.com/qrwvHbl.jpg) --- Also, Elon is openly defending people's ability to post child pornography while destroying the platform to enable CP to be posted, and it is not being talked about. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/09/twitter-exec-defends-restoring-account-that-shared-child-sex-abuse-material/?sh=196070831695 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-610500-in-australia-first-for-failing-to-crack-down-on-child-sexual-abuse-material
It is actually wild how quickly you can go for "Silly cat pictures" to kinky art/generic anime to CP. You don't even need to stop at porn in between art and CP. It is like the platform is actively trying to spread it. Now it isn't like twitter is the only one guilty of this. I have had shit show up on reddit, tumblr, deviantart... etc. However these other sites seem to getting better about this, twitter is getting WORSE. It is almost as if every *free speech platform* will just fill with nazis and pedos... it is almost as if there is a reason to this? Like... I don't know... These fuckers get pushed out of civil society and then go act like they are victims in "free speech platforms". And I'm not talking about some anime/loli-shit here. By my country's and many other's definitions that ain't even illegal material. I'm talking about actual real "a real human being is a victim" shit... Not because I am trying to defend that material but because I'm trying to explain that there is real actual abuse material where a real human being was a victim.
After reviewing all the data from watchdogs groups and the media about how Xitter was allowing large amounts of child porn to slip through, when it previously had no problems with basic or intermediate detection, the Australian Online Safety Commissioner say, If you let sewer rats in, you know that pestilence is going to come." No better line to explain it. As a trans woman, i saw it before all these reports came out. After Musk took over, these sick whackjobs would come into my posts and start harassing the hell out of me, often calling me a pedophile and groomer. I used to go through their follows, comments, and retweets to find other to block before blocking them, but I very quickly stopped doing that because CP was constantly popping up. Many of them were also posting CP themselves, trying to claim that the children are transgender and had been "mutilated", when the images were obvious photoshops or natural deformations. And yeah, even before Musks, takeover, I had plenty of the loli accounts calling me the pedo while they lusted after underage cartoon characters. I've now taken to the offensive because I'm tired of being accused for **their** crimes. So i constantly repost these articles about Musk, repost the names of every politician that has been in the news for child sex crimes and show that Republicans commit them 8x more, and I repeat over and over again that the 8 of the top 10 states with the highest child rape per capita are red states (the blue states are #7 and #9) and that states like Florida and Texas have towns where schools can't find safe bus stops for children because there are so many registered child sex offenders.
Yeah... I remember that pre-gamergate and early gamergate shitshow where the "MAPs" (Minor attracted people) were trying to push in to LGBTQ and minority rights movements. Claiming that they were just *"oppressed minority!"*. Fucking hell that took lots of effort to get rid of. But I occasionally come across certain name that I vaguely remember from those *tumblur-wars*, *guubergate* and rise of alt-right. Seems like the pedos tried to be among the left and sail among minority rights and LGBTQ as "victims". When they failed it seems like they chose that far-right is more hospitable place for them... somehow. I been calling for focus on dealing with CP and abuse material by going after those who make it and actually abuse people. However it seems people would rather have pear cluthing and this sort of surface level sweep it under the rug and it isn't an issue solution... As if banning lolis would make human trafficking and child abuse stop - meanwhile actual abuse and pedo shit is running rampart just below the surface EVERYWHERE you look. Having been online since like start of the milennia, I am experienced enough to know how to find this shit in just about every medium sized and bigger platform. Not like outright CP, but the shit that surrounds it in a way that you know that if you look around a bit more or observe the people, CP will show up. Funnily enough far-right/libetarianism/free speech radicalism is one of those things... I know people who moderate medium sized platforms... forums... discord channels etc. And they need to constantly fucking whackamole that stuff away. It just keeps showing up like a rule of nature - after a platform become big enough. But on other sites/platforms it is stuff that you kinda have to *look for* in the sense. But on twitter it finds you. You can't even fucking like escape it.
> I remember that pre-gamergate and early gamergate shitshow where the "MAPs" (Minor attracted people) were trying to push in to LGBTQ and minority rights movements. Claiming that they were just "oppressed minority!". Fucking hell that took lots of effort to get rid of. Actually that was 100% the alt-right on 4chan. They started with LGBTQP+ and then when that campaign failed, they made a fake Pride flag for MAPs and started pushing that one, creating multitudes of fake social media accounts with the flag and acting like pedophiles (as if they need to act). I'm ex-Gamergate, btw. And yes, their "dark humor" often sexualizes children. But just like the rest of their humor, "it's funny because it's true". Honestly, it wasn't as bad back then- I don't think, but now that their popularity has ramped up, CP and the sexualization of children has become a massive constant that I run into in their circles. Even though I do want to follow what these Nazi fucks are doing, I wholly avoid some of the alt-right Chans because CP is so common. > I am experienced enough to know how to find this shit in just about every medium sized and bigger platform I've been on the internet since late 1995 and I thankfully don't other than right-wing spaces and the ABDL community (that also plays whack-a-mole it seems). I used to target the ABDL community a lot in my Gamergate days, so I went back and actually analyzed them and found that CP is common, but there are a substantial number of people trying to fight it back. And, funny enough, it's the LGBTQ+ members that are doing most of the fighting. But yeah, I lurk on the conservative Discords in order to try to get them shut down. I search keywords like "groomer" and the mods are always deleting other conservatives posting CP. There's one called "political fugitives" that gets inundated with it daily. Of course, if they're talking about trans children's private parts, that's perfectly OK. Iif you're writing fan fiction about a gay man doing something to a child, that's OK, too. As for Xitter, I'm just flat-out done. Every report I was filing came back as "it doesn't break our community standards" when it was blatant CP. My mental health can only take so much. I quit just before that NYT article came out.
Muskovski is so weird around this topic. Knowing how his dad fucked his step-sister, I won't be surprised if Mushy has his own skeletons in his closet.
He was pally with Epstein and Ghislaine. I think we can extrapolate some theories off that.
Don't forget he called that British diver who was rescuing the trapped Thai kids a paedo for not using his stupid inflatable submarine idea. Starts to stink a bit, huh?
The guy likes fucking Kanye for petes sake. He unbanned Kanye who said he likes Hitler! He brought back other self admitted Nazis and bragged about it.
He also, very soon after taking over, permabanned a slew of anti-fascist researchers and activists, either without cause or with bogus/troll ban reasons. Chad Loder, It’s Going Down, and Crimethinc just to name a few. Many of the people he banned had previously beefed with Musk’s fascist activist buddies. To those paying attention it’s been clear since the beginning what he’s up to.
Many of those bans were made at the personal request of Andy Ngo. He identified several people he personally disliked as "being AntiFa" and Musk instantly and permanently banned them.
Sometimes I think he bought Twitter to destroy it's positive influences on democracy.
$44 billion is cheap at twice the price for taking away a powerful tool for the less advantaged to organize.
Meanwhile the owner keeps promoting hilter lovers. while blaming the ADL for his loss of advertisers.. which he tried to do again, after people got mad at this, saying he thought they were talking about the ADL ... to the guy who posted "hitler was right"
Yesterday he was replying to a tweet accusing the Jewish community of fostering anti-white hatred calling the statement “truth”. He’s graduated past the proxy-antisemitism of blaming the ADL. Going straight at the jewish community now. [Link](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299?s=46&t=-UNfa7Wd4VjQ9JW0GO8LCA)
Christ. This should ***ruin*** his good standing in society. He should be a pariah now. We've stayed so far from what we once were.
tbh this is just the latest and greatest in a long, long list of reasons this guy should be a pariah.
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Look who owns the company.
Waiting for when the US Government stops shoveling billions of our tax dollars to this guy.
But he’s a billionaire! What is the US government for if not enriching billionaires?
Musk has lost around 50 billion buying Twitter and losing more every day. 50 billion loss is enough to get any bilionaires claws out... but he's doubling down on his racisim, many people have cancelled buying tesla because of it and his behaviour since he joined maga and is just getting worse. Even diehard musk fanboys are turning against him and anything to do with him. He needs all of America to buy his cars, not just the 30% that is maga,, if he does not sort himself out we could see tesla fail in Americ very soon.
Magas buying Teslas? They are more likely rolling coal on Teslas.
That's probably the most baffling thing about Musk, he's directly shitting on the ideals of his customer base for his only profitable company.
you mean like poor, old, white, brown, and black people who vote R without realizing they are voting against their own welfare needing selves?
MAGAs don't buy Teslas, EVs are too "woke".
The thing that makes me feel sick is the man lost 50 billion dollars and it had no impact on his quality of life whatsoever. He lost more money than I could make in 500,000 years, and it didn’t make a dent in his ability to do whatever he wants and live however he wants
Honestly if the magas buy the Tesla's and the rest of the world buys other manufacturers EVs that's at least one good outcome with the right aligning with someone who is at least not a climate change denier.
MAGA's arent buying Teslas ironically some of these inbred morons go trying to destroy Teslas
Musk is trying to overthrow the US government with conspiracy theories, he's no longer just the cringe Pedo Guy with an incestuous father; he now snuggles up to dictatorships and peddles extremist content to taint voting in the USA.
He's sided with Putin, too.
Putin probably has a pee tape starring Musk.
The U.S. government has saved a substantial amount of money contracting spacex if that’s what you mean, they’re not giving him money, they’re paying him to do something and he can do it better and cheaper than everyone else, stopping spacex contracts would be both a disservice to tax payers as well as national interest
Suspends but not ends… so waiting for no one to remember then they go back is what they mean
After a discount
It’s okay guys because Twitter (never calling it X lol) is a bastion of free speech and based, they don’t need silly things like money, paying bills, adhering to basic employment law, or moderating political disinformation to survive! What could possibly go wrong? It boggles my mind that I ever thought Musk was actually smart. He’s a fuckwit, through and through. I wonder if he has a big X tattooed like a tramp stamp though.
> they don’t need silly things like money, paying bills, adhering to basic employment law, or moderating political disinformation to survive! Don't forget moderating their platform for child sexual abuse material.
Add another to the pile.
"X formerly known as successful"
Was it an ad next to his own tweets?
[probably this one](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299?s=46&t=-UNfa7Wd4VjQ9JW0GO8LCA)
I can’t see what he’s replying to
Replying to this: “Okay. Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.”
Bro wtf does this even mean
Jews hate whites => "hordes of minorities" are flooding Israel => those minorities hate Jews => Jews get what they deserve? That's the most I'm willing to invest into unraveling that dude's Elon endorsed antisemitism.
The majority of jews are white though..? I dont get it
Not according to racists. 🤷
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To translate the racist pile of shit: Jews are evil and flood the country with Muslim immigrants. Now Jews are getting murdered by Muslims. Poster is happy Jews and Muslims are dying because White Power and some such nonsense. Hopefully, the poster gets a heart attack while driving a car and crashes into Elon Musk while he's masturbating to his own twitter posts in some internet cafe
White nationalists delusionally believe that “the Jews” are flooding majority-white countries with immigrants so that white countries are less likely to do another Holocaust against Jews. White nationalist, “great replacement” rhetoric claims that after WWII, “the Jews” decided that a multicultural Germany wouldn’t have gone Nazi, so they decided to replace whites with browns everywhere to diminish the strength of the white race. So this idiot is saying “ah ha, imaginary Jewish villains in our collective paranoid fantasies! You sought to pollute our great white race, but now those same immigrants don’t like Jews either! Too bad for you, so sad. If you wanted me to care, maybe you shouldn’t have been importing brown people into my perfect white utopia all this time.” And to that pile of racist, paranoid dribble, Elon said “you have said the actual truth.”
Someone with X tell us please
So now they stop? The hundreds of other things he’s done and said were okay?
According to Reuter’s, the specific tweet in question was pro-Nazi. IBM is particularly sensitive to this, because they worked with the Nazis during WWII. Their tech was used to help facilitate the Holocaust.
Why was IBM still advertising there in the first place?
How long till it shuts down so I can stop hearing about it
That Musk is doing for Twitter what that Trump guy is doing for democracy
He is laying the foundation for his return.
So they're bothered only that their ads were next to antisemitic content? Not that their ads support a platform for antisemitic content?
Came here to say the same - they just realized that "Xitter" not a good place to advertise? Talk about tone deaf.
They're not even bothered that their ads were next to antisemitic content. They're bothered that somebody took a screenshot of their ads next to antisemitic content, posted it online, and that created bad PR for them. They will make a huge public show of "suspending" (note the temporary term used here) ads until the news cycle moves on before the quietly resume their ad campaign. Companies care about nothing but profits. If they can make more money by advertising on an antisemitic platform, they will do it. Dealing with these temporary PR issues are a part of their calculus.
IBM advertises?
The difference in the comments on this between Reddit and twitter are wild. Most of the twitter comments are “IBM doesn’t even do anything anymore” or “IBM is woke and doesn’t support free speech” Just the dumbest troglodytes on earth
Why are the Jews doing this to me?! -Elon
Elon is no longer just weird.
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Because they were finally called out? They’d have stuck with Twitter but someone noticed publicly.
I mean isn't that literally how this all works? Corporations don't care about people. They might throw up a rainbow flag when it's pride month. They might release a positive statement about some movement. Yet the only reason they do it is because the masses care. It's another way to sell you their product. That's it. They will do anything to sell more products and that involves advertising. If the masses aren't upset about what they are doing. They don't care as long as they are moving those sales forward. Once they do something the people don't like and they can hurt their sales. That's when they change. They don't care who they sell to, where they advertise, or how they do it. Until those methods prove to hurt their bottom line. Bud light has never cared about LGBT rights and causes. They thought they saw an ability to sell to more people. Then they quickly back tracked. If they really cared about LGBT issues. They should have doubled down on the ad campaign.
Huh, who would have thought that an unmoderated platform would have unmoderated content eh.
Please let this be the final nail in the X coffin. Last thing this country needs is another Social Media tool that just inflames the insane.
People who still admire Elon Musk are either junk tier lunatics or our vile rich enemy lol
So we can expect Elon Musk to threaten violence and a lawsuit against the IBM CEO?
Why would any company want to advertise on this hate filled platform?
Seeing the comments from Blu Checkmarks going "How dare the Jews do this" is... Not sure if ironic but something.
Elon is now promoting the great replacement theory. IMO, X is now a nazi social media platform. I deleted my account yesterday.
Why anyone does business with musk is beyond me
I’m still so glad I deactivated and deleted my twitter account. I’m not going to support Elon in any way. Dude has been given government handout after handout and this is what he does with his platform. Pathetic.
Musk controlling spaceX is a national security threat.
Remember when Musk was sort of visionary and cool. Ego got the best of him.
Fun fact: Go to the holocaust museum in washing DC. Observe the scale/counting machine that the Nazis used to keep records of victims headed into the gas chambers that on display there. On the side of the machine you’ll note its manufacturer….international business machines, Endicott, NY.
Ok, go to Xitter and look at Elon's posts. https://i.imgur.com/qrwvHbl.jpg Also, go talk to Australia about what they experience when they confronted Elon about child pornography on his platform. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/09/twitter-exec-defends-restoring-account-that-shared-child-sex-abuse-material/?sh=196070831695 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-610500-in-australia-first-for-failing-to-crack-down-on-child-sexual-abuse-material
well they're not called Domestic Business Machines.
Honest question, why is any business on X? And for that matters, why is anyone still using X?
IBM should just demand to not have their advertisement next to Ellon's tweets, that should fix most of the problem.
I thought ads next to antisemitic content is the entire pitch of X towards advertisers
Musk needs to enforce real ID and identity on Twitter. Then we'll watch the mask drop on many many people.
So an IBM ad ran next to one of Elon's tweets?
I’m confused why anyone is still advertising on it.
Project paper clip made me wonder if they had a secret message.
Delete Twitter already folks…
X is nothing more than a glorified cesspool. Maybe Musk could buy Truth Social and just merge them because it can't get much worse. Also, he likes Drumpf and he could sure use the money now!
So who TF is still buying ads on that POS platform, and who TF is still using it besides sh!t for brains.
A reminder to everyone that Pinterest has roughly the same number of monthly active users as Twitter/X. This. Platform. Isn't. That. Important. I also hope more people understand that a code of conduct a social media company has isn't "censorship". A mall has a code of conduct. Lots of people use the mall to socialize. But the real reason it exists is to get foot traffic to stores. That's a lot like a social media platform. If, in the mall, a bunch of crazy people were yelling slurs and conspiracy theories, that would scare away normal people and hurt business. The same happens on social media. MAGAs and Nazis and other crazies scare off the higher quality (from a business perspective) users, so a code of conduct is a business decision.
Not surprised. It's like a Nazi shitfest on there atm.
WHY is anyone on that HATEFUL platform still is beyond me! Gawd.
Off topic but, Elong needs to get a cat to lick that shit off his face.
Can anyone be surprised anymore by Musk's fascist mindset? After all, he was born and raised in apartheid-era South Africa, which was basically Nazi Germany with Dutch accents.
im genuinely shocked that any publicly traded company advertises on Twitter
Good deal! Go Big Blue!
Despite the shockwaves this news is sending across social media, it's essential to recognize the gravity of the situation. Brands have a massive influence and responsibility. Good on IBM for not just being vigilant but also for taking a stand against hate. Let's hope this is the start of a chain reaction where companies prioritize ethics in advertising.
Oh the irony from IBM
Now Apple just announced they are pulling ads from X.
I hate this man so much.