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Except it's just a "pause", so other brands can take it either way at this point
by upon_drumhead 3y ago
Except it's just a "pause", so other brands can take it either way at this point
- KerrAvon 3y agoIBM and the EU are also "pauses." So yeah, but that's how this works.
- brookst 3y agoIt would be crazy to say anything other than pause. Why lock yourself in to some kind of permanent decision regardless of anything that changes?
- concinds 3y agoIt had to be a "pause", because it they said it was permanent, there was a risk of Musk lashing out and calling them out publicly.
- trogdor 3y agoCalling them out publicly how? For not wanting to spend money on his platform after he endorsed an unambiguously anti-Semitic statement? In response to a post that claimed Jewish communities support “hatred against whites,” Musk replied “You have said the actual truth.” He is the one being called out. What’s he gonna say? That Apple hates South Africans?
- concinds 3y agoYou're ignoring the fact that he's repeatedly attacked advertisers by name for leaving, for example for "hating free speech" or being "too left-wing", and that conservative influencers have in the past rallied these efforts by calling for boycotts. You're focusing on whether his attacks would be morally legitimate, which is besides the point (that hasn't stopped Musk in the past). His base would find it convincing, because many on the right refuse to admit that it was antisemitic.
- rsynnott 3y agoThey’re not going to say “we’re never ever advertising on Twitter again”. Like, if nothing else, Naughty Old Mr Car may not be running it forever.