During the early days of Elon purchasing Twitter Elon went to Moscow, the Twitter purchase was also heavily financed by both the Saudi Royal investment fund and Qatar, who are low key Russian allies, then there's the Superbowl discussion Musk has with Rupert Murdoch, then all of Elon's Trump humping, all of this points to something much bigger behind Musk's Twitter purchase, I'm just glad it seems like it's mostly failing.
Now take all of that and think about Spez's actions against Reddit's communities, his refusal to go harder on the MAGAs and the Nazis, the site's over zealous censorship, their protection of Right wing users. Then there's Facebook, where the Vice President of Public policy, Joel Kaplan, is a GOP operative and a protege of Roger Stone himself, which brings Facebook's constant pushback against censoring disinformation and propaganda into perspective, as well as their partnership with Cambridge Analytica, and then there's the Ruzzian connections, both through investment and data harvesting.
Cory Doctorow points to the "Enshittification" of the Internet, but what if it's a coordinated effort for the fascifictation of the Internet instead?
this is why we need to push alternatives to corporate websites. there was never a need for them, they just got big and it kinda just happened. they're shit and it's time we ditched them.
Remember when reddit only banned a violent or pedo community after it gets pressured by news orgs?
I’ve been convinced for a while that Elon and Spez are tanking their sites on purpose. They may be assholes but they aren’t stupid.
Spez dickrides the fuck out of Elon, as far as they're concerned they're not tanking their sites, their cleaning out the "liberal brain rot" and the easily controlled userbase will stay while the others will move on or stay but actively fight until ultimately also leaving or worse, assimilation.
It all boils down to narcissists/fascists in power don't want to be challenged, they just want obedience and acceptance, they want echo chambers.
If it was a single action on a single company then I might agree. Elon's done some stuff, Twitter being only the latest, that shows a trend of...well maybe not stupidity, but it does seem to be flailing around of a rich person without a clue. He seems more of a wealthy tool than one of the higher ups making the plan.
I suspect it's related to higher interest rates and greater need from their investors to start turning a healthy profit now. they're desperate and making rash moves in an attempt to bring in money and cut costs
Probably a little bit of both, really.
He is not a smart man.
I love the odd angle photos so we can see just how weird these people look.
Same. Steve Bannon always looks like he just came off a 3-day bender.
There no angle where he doesn't look like he just got done with a rough night in Reno.
Bannon's nose is the brightest object in this photo, easy
I had briefly forgotten the name of the zombie. Does anyone greeting him always open with, "dude, you okay?"
Three tons of shit in a two-ton truck right there.
