Media Matters and Vox publicly campaigned for a year to demonetize YouTube, by methodically threatening brands with publication of screenshots of ads next to niche controversial content. This happened via private emails to executives, followed by viral social media posts when the brands did not satisfy their demands in a timely manner. This culminated in the "adpocalypse", which consisted of those targeted Fortune 500 brands pulling out and disavowing YouTube. YouTube implemented sweeping policies that demonetized political channels on both sides and even LGBTQ+ channels. In the end, everyone lost.
Can you give me a source for that? I'm asking because where I live a company sprang up during that time, who employed the exact same tactic. Posted those sorts of screenshots, not of Youtube but of our company's display ads on platforms like Seekingalpha and other sites they deemed to be fake news or extremist, and when our digital marketing didn't respond to them, they sent the screenshots to executives within the company. This ultimately led to us having to buy their brand safety monitoring service because the CEO was scared of backlash.
Hunter Biden laptop that the FBI have confirmed real
Banning Andrew Tate when Pierce Morgan and many others think he is opinionated but should not be banned.
And hell they banned Jordan Peterson?
I don't know what kinda echo chamber you operate in to think the 'left' is not 'trying to influence communication platforms'
isn't it the far left that's all up in arms about musk buying Twitter in the first place? to me the average left leaning person could give two shits about who owns Twitter, yet a ton of Twitter employees vowed to quit if the deal went through. subjective as it is, those of which I'd consider far left.
You don't have to view everything through such a political lens.
Musk constantly shits on the work those people did and says he's going to change it all. I bet they have some pride in what they built and it would feel insulting for some outsider to constantly criticize without knowing the reasons why they did what they did. I'd feel hurt too. Plus his companies have a reputation for chewing you up and spitting you out again. People might not like the cultural U-turn.
Please stop talking about the far left. It's just silly. It's like 12 people who share these extreme views and comparing them to the far right is really misleading. The far right are organised and training with weapons. The far left are arguing on Twitter with anime profile pics.
that could very well be the reason why some are leaving, but its not those people that are broadcasting their intentions. you could also say his organizations have a standard of excellence that many feel they can achieve, but few are capable of.
saying that the far left is in no way comparable to the far right is pretty silly. they both exist, they both have violent sects, both have anime fans, and there are most definitely more than 12 of them
So the far left wants to control twitter because there are people that want to leave twitter if musk runs it, and these people must be from the far left because...
...of the intolerant views that they subscribe to that have been covered time and time again during this saga over the last few months.. oh but wait, there is intolerant views on the right too? id wager a fair bit that any right leaning employees of Twitter, intolerant as they may be, are snug as a bug in a rug right now, as are the centrists
There are many such examples. Look at the group "Stop Funding Hate" in the UK that constantly harasses companies who advertise in newspapers and news channels that aren't dominated by the left.