IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
  • User_4272894@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh, shit, well as long as they got to the restaurant before the Nazi bought it, I guess there’s no harm in continuing to support it. Especially if they don’t have the technical knowledge to… Stop using a website?

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not sure you can say the are supporting it. They can’t use the other restaurants and can’t cook. There is probably a certain amount of denial they are dealing will full-on Nazies. Hard to see something when doing so means you have to act in a way very detrimental to your life.

      • User_4272894@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        For a service like Twitter, where user numbers define value, using it is 100% supporting it. Again, the metaphor falls apart because suggesting they can’t use other options suggests they might die, which is painfully untrue for the vast majority of Twitter users (literally no user in a developed country relies on Twitter for life/death information in a way other sources can’t provide).

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
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          1 year ago

          There are plenty who twitter is their livelihood. Apparently they just can’t get the follower numbers on Mastadon (as well as struggle to use it). They are trapped. The magic invisible hand of the market is no substitute for regulation. You arguing consumer choice can solve this kind of problem and it clearly often can’t.