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by nobody9999 687 days ago
>As opposed to letting advertisers be our mental jailors by chilling the discourse

Chilling what discourse? To which specific discourse and topics are you referring?

I'm not being snarky here, I don't use Twitter/X/whatever or other "Social Media" sites like FB/IG. Nor do I use any federated ActivityPub[0] sites.

As such, I'm really not sure what speech you believe is being "suppressed" by advertisers.

What's more IIUC, Musk/X are claiming that advertisers should be required to advertise (and pay for those advertisements) on Twitter/X. Unless I'm missing something important, that makes absolutely no sense.

It would be like McDonald's suing you because you don't buy their food, or Tesla suing you because you bought a Chevy instead of a Tesla.

And so, assuming I'm not missing anything important (am I?), the whole premise is risible[1]. No one owes Musk/X/Twitter any advertising revenue, and forcing folks to pay to run ads where they don't want to run such ads is ridiculous -- or is it your contention that advertisers (or anyone else, for that matter -- since if they can be forced to do this, so can you or me) must pay Elon Musk?

I'd be very interested to hear how such a position is compatible with capitalism and a free society. Do tell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/risible

Edit: Added the missing links. Added reference '[1]' to one link.

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> What's more IIUC, Musk/X are claiming that advertisers should be required to advertise (and pay for those advertisements) on Twitter/X. Unless I'm missing something important, that makes absolutely no sense.

Agreed. It doesn’t. Companies are free to spend their ad dollars how they choose to. It’s a free country last I checked.