The domain X.com had previously been used by sites running afoul of the country’s rules on “negative” content.

The domain X.com had previously been used by sites running afoul of the country’s rules on “negative” content.

  • Calcharger
    17•1 year ago

    Maybe they should have done a little industry research to see if this was a good idea.

    Oh well, Elon Musk Genius, Dogecoin dogecoin dogecoin, monkey art

    • BetoEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      They did, many years ago with the PayPal merge. Musk wanted x.com, all the research said people saw it negatively, and Musk still pushed for it, until eventually he was ousted as CEO.

    • @CoderKat@lemm.ee
      2•1 year ago

      What’s also weird is that Twitter does in fact contain a lot of porn. When Tumblr banned porn, Twitter was one of the top choices that people were recommending.

  • @MariaRomanov
    13•1 year ago

    I was curious about the Musk experiment, but I think he’s proven himself to be an idiot now. How did SpaceX do so well?

    • Communist
      16•1 year ago

      It’s simple, SpaceX is one of the companies they don’t let him influence. The engineers just handle SpaceX because it’s too complicated for him.

      Same with neuralink.

      • Bonehead
        10•1 year ago

        Also remember that Musk didn’t start any of these companies. He merely invested enough to become the face of the company. He’s only really ever started X.com, but that code was thrown out when he merged with Peter Thiel’s company.

        • AshDene
          6•1 year ago

          This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

          There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there’s really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.

          • Bonehead
            5•1 year ago

            He bought his way into the Mars Society and then was introduced to a whole bunch of people with real experience. Yes, he “created” SpaceX, but he did it the same way he does everything else…by throwing gobs of money at something that already exists and then having actual smart people figure out the hard stuff.

    • Jeena
      12•1 year ago

      I guess they did well despite him. People who can send rockets to space probably also know how to deal with rich idiots.

    • Archmage Azor
      8•1 year ago

      I think somebody at SpaceX said they do better when Musk isn’t around

    • @wearling0600@lemmy.world
      3•1 year ago

      Having followed SpaceX for a very long time, I think that Elon kinda figured early on how to get engineers excited for a lofty goal and give them sufficient room to fail and innovate, whilst squeezing every drop of work out of them.

      So he was a good hype man for things he broadly understood and he was willing to put loads of money into making it successful.

      But following a long tradition of people who are actually excellent in a narrow field, he convinced himself that he can translate this into imposing weird and frankly really stupid philosophy onto the world. The Bloombergs and the Carsons of the world have already failed at this, happily it looks like he will too. Not that he’ll learn anything from it, just hope he goes away and stops trying.

  • @AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world
    6•1 year ago

    Indonesia blocked most porn sites and reddit as well. But not twitter. Apparently, government officials are using it to “communicate” to the citizens.

  • Jeena
    -7•1 year ago

    To be fair this is not Musks fault, this is Indonesia being Indonesia.

    • @Doorbell0008@lemmy.world
      15•1 year ago

      I don’t think the point is that it’s his fault they have crazy laws. I think it’s his fault that he didn’t anticipate this would be a problem. I’m sure he did ZERO due diligence. I guarantee this came as a surprise to him.

    • @toasteecup@lemmy.world
      14•1 year ago

      A failure to do market research is absolutely a company owner’s fault.

      Indonesia being Indonesia is not musk’s fault, but not doing the bare minimum of looking into things is musk’s fault.

    • geoffervescent
      8•1 year ago

      You are extremely charitable my friend but Indonesia is not going to stop being Indonesia for Elon, so yes this is Musk’s strategic error. You don’t abrubtly change your entire multibillion dollar brand without doing some due diligence on the implications it will have. Or maybe he truly is deranged enough to believe he doesn’t need customers in 4th most populous country to run a successful social media site.