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• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 11:21am

  Ok little woke boi.

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 11:20am

  For whom? Because I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t look like you

  Yeah, man, I get it, you're very sad you don't get to repress the ideas of everyone you don't like anymore.

  From a business perspective, it appears to be cash positive now [citation needed]

  Statements of Musk's and Twitter's. No, you don't get to check their books, their a private company, there will be no earning's calls. I guess we'll see in a year if they're still around, but I'm not worried about it.

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 11:16am

  As a user, who has been there since 2011 or so, it’s awful. Most of my original contacts has left

  All I'm hearing from that is that you're very woke and so are your friends. On the other hand I actually get to see the tweets by conservative pundits I follow, whereas I would not, previously.

  As for the revenue, sure, we cut the legs and the arms of the guy but he’s still alive to do his job that requires arms and legs to be performed. Victory!

  The patient was dying before. It will live now.

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 11:02am

  As a user it's unquestionably better. From a business perspective, it appears to be cash positive now, wasn't when Musk bought it.

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 10:59am

  It's sad that you think that was meaningful commentary

• On the post: Desperation Sets In: Twitter Offers To Match $250,000 In Ad Spending To Lure Pissed Off Advertisers Back

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 10:59am

  OMG, you just can't stop, can you you?

  It's just a sales promotion. Your campaign to make it look like everything is falling apart at Twitter, is just fucking silly. Your harping on ad sales just comes across as high school mean girls shit. "You can't sit with us and no one likes you!" Woke execs gotta virtue signal, after all. Of course, your efforts on this (ineffectual, you don't have much reach) are part of all that. It doesn't last. In Pfizer's case it probably has more to do with them not being able to control the propaganda anymore, tho: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/

• On the post: UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 06:46am

  ......the commenting system did that, dumbass

• On the post: UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 06:46am

  Yeah.....saying things (regardless of whether you agree with them) cannot be censorship.

• On the post: UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 06:45am

  I just don't believe in making excuses for the FBI like Masnick does.

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2023 @ 06:42am

  Evidence of something I never alledged?

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 07:32pm

  Love the double talk here

  US gov tells twitter (and FB) what to censor, everything is fine, all just doing the lord's work. UK wants to do the same thing (but granted, much more officially) and it's all super monstrous. To be clear I think it's all monstrous and the UK's lack of anything resembling real free speech is super fucked but it's the fact that you keep on pretending it was all fine when our government did it with twitter that really pisses me off.

• On the post: UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 07:32pm

  Love the double talk here

  US gov tells twitter (and FB) what to censor, everything is fine, all just doing the lord's work. UK wants to do the same thing (but granted, much more officially) and it's all super monstrous. To be clear I think it's all monstrous and the UK's lack of anything resembling real free speech is super fucked but it's the fact that you keep on pretending it was all fine when our government did it with twitter that really pisses me off.

• On the post: UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 07:28pm

  uh huh....and then UK demands you have a sign-on pass issued by the government so they can make sure everyone is of age. If I recall, they actually proposed something like that already

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 07:23pm

  And yet, here you are, all but begging us to take you seriously.

  Whatever you need to tell yourself

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:55pm

  adjective appearing or stated to be true, though not necessarily so; alleged. "the purported marriage was void" "Clownery" of course is an opinion, but Masnick routinely lies about the facts of a situation (for instance to pretend Elonjet is not doxxing) to make whatever it is about Musk that's pissing him off seem worse than it actually is. For instance in this article he's pretending that people are actually leaving Twitter for Mastodon (a small number did) or that anything about the switching costs has changed. Or fuck, he just states, without any evidence, that Twitter is somehow "shitty" now.

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:48pm

  A journalist’s post and an Elon flight almost certainly didn’t occur at the same time

  1) there's no reason at all to think that's true, actually, tweets are often pretty snappy, but if it's a screenshot, it only need be sometime during the length of the flight (several hours). Presumably no one has anti-aircraft missiles, the relevant bit is where it's landing. 2) If it's a link (I know some were) that's the same as providing the doxxing information directly. You are kinda making things up to make this sound other than it is, that's weird.

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:42pm

  I really don't give a fuck what you think about it dude. I think it's very funny if you take yourself seriously but I most definitely do not. This forum is a bunch of liberal arts majors that think they actually know things, get scared by math, refute a citation without even reading it, ad hominem to death, and constantly claim anyone who disagrees with them is racist. Numerous times I have provided links to have the source attacked (laughably once claiming I should use a "neutral" source like The Verge) goal posts moved, and for them not even to understand basic statistics. I really could not give less fucks what any of you take "seriously"

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:36pm

  That's actually not accurate in the normal uses of the words, but none of it has anything to do with what I said. I provided an anecdote. (a funny one). Why the fuck are you all going on about "empirical"? (you can, in fact have empirical evidence of an anecdote, empirical just means "verified") Stephen misunderstood as he does but I was never claiming to have data suggesting that was the reason, nor was I seriously suggesting it was. It was just funny.

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 05:14pm

  Yeah, so, that wasn't me.

• On the post: How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 05:12pm

  They linked to ElonJet, which yes, is doxxing. (and no, not a "special" definition, just the normal one)

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