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Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.

What he's saying: "If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself." Musk said. "Don't advertise."

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 years ago (6 children)

"I have no problem being hated," Musk said, emphasizing that the trip was planned before his controversial post on X.

Grimes still doesn’t want you back, dude.

"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail."

Spoken exactly like the person who doesn’t care if they’re hated or not. “I WILL DOCUMENT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS IN GREAT DETAIL!!”

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail."

I, too, prefer making other people the scapegoat to avoid letting myself feel any personal responsibility over my actions.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's like a rapist who ends up in jail and blames the victim with the rationale that "she was asking for it".

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He wants Twitter dead, he never wanted the company and he's stuck with it and is basically doing the most above board sabotage of the company he can get away with.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

...funded by Saudis, who also want Twitter dead so it can't be used to organize Arab Spring 2.0.

[–] crashfrog@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really follow this. If he actually doesn't want Twitter to be a thing, there's a button in the data center that turns off all the servers. He can just push that. There's no law against it and he's the majority shareholder - what's he going to do, sue himself?

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To advance his political agenda, it needs to look like an accident. Or incompetence.

I'm not convinced that's what he's actually doing, but I do acknowledge that it's a pretty strong case. But as the old adage goes, never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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

Yeah I have my doubts that it's a purposeful plan. He'd have to know people would see him as a laughingstock, and his ego couldn't handle that.

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

"I WILL WATCH THAT DOCUMENTARY AND LAUGH EVERY TIME I SEE YOU GETTING SADDER AND SADDER AT YOUR FAILING BUSINESS WHICH IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT MR MUSK, YOU SMELLY CARROT OF A MAN"

Is how I'd respond to that.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wasn't he recently visiting israeli kibuts settlers and learning about the hamas attack just after the wave of press about antisemitism on X? He's fragile.

Found it: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-israel-aviation-tracker-says-2023-11-27/

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]

Sounds fucking good to me. Keep it up, non-advertisers.

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

and I will buy the crap out of those products that were the downfall of ~~Twitter~~ X