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

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[-] pornhubfan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Does Indonesia also block the Twitter video domain https://xvideos.com

[-] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, yes. But a simple DNS change can do the trick.

I mean the "official" DNS of your country is usually a bad choice anyway.

Since it's not Twitter anymore, we should replace "tweeting" by "Xcreting". (It's not mine, saw it on Reddit, but I think the idea deserves more exposure!)

[-] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 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@beehaw.org 2 points 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@kbin.social 1 points 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@kbin.social 2 points 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@kbin.social 1 points 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.

Nothing of value was lost.

[-] Bonzo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Remember to downvote the post. I’m tired of twatter and muskrat too.

Not going to downvote something cause i don't like it ...

[-] scurzon@rammy.site 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t care

[-] Calcharger@kbin.social 1 points 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

[-] beto@lemmy.studio 2 points 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 points 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.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] toasteecup@lemmy.world 3 points 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.

[-] Doorbell0008@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

Yes but he could have seen it coming, X.⠀ com sounds like a porn site. (or a video game about killing Aliens...)

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 1 year ago

Or like Mac OS X, or American History X, etc.

No. Just like porn or a game, everything else is unknown to normal people.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think normal people know any games with X. At least I don't.

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