Elon Musk
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Ubisoft has 'paused' advertising on Twitter
Ubisoft has confirmed that it has joined other major companies who have paused advertising on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, following a Media Matters report which claims that the platform has been running ads for companies including Apple, IBM, NBCUniversal, and Comcast owner Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content. X denies that regular users will see such ads next to extremist content, claiming that Media Matters intentionally manipulated a feed to produce that result.
The list of companies who have halted activity on X is long and potentially extremely damaging for a platform struggling with a decline in advertising revenues: IBM, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Xfinity, Sony, and others have all opted to stop running ads, at least temporarily.
- Sieg Heilutopian
- @utopian ..u know when u say that in austria or germany u go in front of the judge and get busted... as one should... totaly counteracts mornings theory thatneverscared
- banning certain speech moves into facism...neverscared
- It doesn't.Morning_star
- ohh it does... otherwise we would drown in facism here... and the last time i looked we didn´t.. do we ?neverscared
- i take it as a turn of you... good to c u think regulating speech is not a move into facism...neverscared
- Neverscared, your interpretation is fantasy and your dishonesty is pathological.Morning_star
- Every society bans some type of speech right? If the government takes down an ISIS recruiting site or child pron images would you object?yuekit
- suddenly u sound very black and white but u priden yourself to be so in the greys... i call that pathetic.neverscared
- That content in the UK is illegal and would be removed under law which I would 100% support.Morning_star
- OK but that's a form of censorship right? So it's not always a slippery slope.yuekit
- Actually I personally wouldn't ban Nazis but I understand why Germany does.yuekit
- Yes it’s censorship but in a form that has been considered, debated and eventually bound in law. It’s not the whim of a tech billionaire or political leader...Morning_star
- ...with an agenda that may not be too wholesome. However I think is is a right for those billionaires or politicians to say whatever the hell they want as long ...Morning_star
- The UK doesn't actually guarantee free speech does it? Always found that kind of weird.yuekit
- ...as the ability for anyone to challenge them is in place.Morning_star
- We don’t have a constitution, we do have laws that guarantee rights to speak and protest.Morning_star
- Right but the government isn't coming and arresting Elon Musk because he said something. That never happened. What you're talking about here isyuekit
- more like social acceptability of certain ideas. Does everyone have to advertise on Gab and 4chan, they can't say no to that? Censorship is the wrong word IMO.yuekit
- I’m not sure what you’re suggesting. Musk can say whatever he wants on X, it’s his. If that pisses off some advertisers then so what? Just because there are...Morning_star
- ...some X users with opinions that are controversial or provocative it shouldn’t mean, under Elons rules, that they can’t use it. I believe in the market or mob...Morning_star
- ...to regulate the content. Discussion of any idea should not be forbidden unless it’s against the law.Morning_star
- Can you find where I said Musk should be censored? It's not even possible because the USA has First Amendment.yuekit
- That doesn't mean we can't criticize him or that advertisers can't stop advertising on the site. Or even that Media Matters can't advocate for them to stopyuekit
- running ads. All of that is also free speech.yuekit
- Absolutely, unless you and others voice descent the idea of free speech won't work.Morning_star