Advertisers don't want to be on a platform that allows honest, open communication. A sterile non-controversial platform is much safer for them.
At some point as our rights and our freedoms in this country slowly erode, we're going to be grateful to have Twitter and to Elon Musk for being one of the last platforms to put our freedoms over sheer capitalism.
Nah, advertisers (and people as it turns out) don't want to be on a toxic platform where they're constantly harassed. Advertisers don't want to be seen as endorsing the cesspool. This isn't about free speech, it's about being free from constant harassment and people not wanting to swim in the sewer. Musk has turned xitter into 4chan: sure teenage boys like that kind of thing, but pretty much everyone else finds it unpleasant which is why they're leaving.
From the recent stuff, remember the lab leak theory where any mentions of which were getting removed from Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, including the scientific papers that looked into it?
Not being able to see replies without logging isn’t putting freedoms over capitalism. Twitter Blue replies pushed to the top of threads isn’t putting our freedoms over capitalism.
> At some point as our rights and our freedoms in this country slowly erode, we're going to be grateful to have Twitter and to Elon Musk for being one of the last platforms to put our freedoms over sheer capitalism.
Elon's cause is more noble than sheer capitalism.
Advertisers don't want to be on a platform that allows honest, open communication. A sterile non-controversial platform is much safer for them.
At some point as our rights and our freedoms in this country slowly erode, we're going to be grateful to have Twitter and to Elon Musk for being one of the last platforms to put our freedoms over sheer capitalism.