Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

  • @SCB
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    2710 months ago

    Capitalism has built in rules against market manipulation and monopolies

    It most assuredly does not. Addressing these externalities is the responsibility of government.

    • @[email protected]
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      -2510 months ago

      The fact that it requires a free and open market are the rules and since it’s a component of the government the government has to make sure the system is free and open.

      • @SCB
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        1610 months ago

        I’m sorry, you think Twitter is a component of the US government?

        • @[email protected]
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          -2510 months ago

          No, capitalism is a component of the government. The point is to get the government out of twitter which records have shown the government was in twitter prior to Elon’s takeover.

          • @SCB
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            1210 months ago

            Capitalism is not, and definitionally cannot be, a component of the government. It is an economic system

              • @SCB
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                1310 months ago

                Can you explain what you mean using other words? I am not great with loose language in general.

                • @[email protected]
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                  -1110 months ago

                  By stating that, it was a component of the government. In that context I was using component loosely.

                  • @SCB
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                    910 months ago

                    I’m aware of that. What was the thing you intended?