Ars TechnicaElon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators
Congress accused advertisers group of colluding to tank X's revenue.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESah yes, advertisers are "colluding" to tank #twitter's ad revenue
i see #elonmusk. uhuh
in another time, i would consider such words to be a method, a lie crafted to advance a narrative
nowadays, i don't think that's the case at all
now, i view #plutocrat manchildren like #musk as merely incapable of moral reasoning skills
when they say "collude," they mean it, honestly
because to a mind devoid of morality, collusion is what simple common revulsion appears to be to such turds
NeonPurpleStar 
@benroyce @arstechnica MaH FrEE MarKeTS!!!!!
yup! the big lie:
"free markets" when someone dare suggest some regulation to avoid harm
but also "free markets" like... prodding your #republican goons in #congress to force advertisers to use your edgelord nouveau 4chan #troll paradise that #twitter is now
🤣 🤣 🤣
#elonmusk, apparently all that money rots the brain sir manchild
Kevin Leecaster@benroyce @arstechnica
That the Republicans held a committee hearing trying to force companies to advertise on Ben Shapiro's network is just so disgusting.
And I've started telling people that if Trump gets elected that it's going to be a requirement for every company to advertise on ELoon's X too since he seems to think that they should be prosecuted for choosing not to put their company logos next to posts from Nazis.
Magical Cat@benroyce One of first things the ruling party of USSR, that "Communist Party of Soviet Union", did is promoted somewhere in 1920s or 1930s idea to exclude the "moral idiocy" from list of mental illnesses. In recent years, I suppose, more people would understand, why - both CPSU leadership and their today successors with their operatives worldwide are moral idiots. There is no other reason to support #RussiaIsATerroristState or #GOPniks today except if you suffer from severe moral idiocy.
Martin Parker@arstechnica calling for the prosecution of the person responsible for tanking Twitter? He hasn’t thought this through, has he?
Incognitim
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦@arstechnica Not only a no to that, but HELL no.
Will Dormann
Saromel
@saromel @arstechnica
Elmo made it quite clear how he felt about advertisers leaving.
Until he realized that the company needs their money.
So... Collusion! Right?
Elmo made it quite clear how he felt about advertisers leaving.
Until he realized that the company needs their money.
So... Collusion! Right?
the_wiggler@saromel @wdormann @arstechnica I cant imagine anyone hearing that and not concluding advertisers just took him at his word.
Bandersnatch@saromel @wdormann @arstechnica
"The defense rests, your honor."
Phil Stevens 
@wdormann @arstechnica Left out the step where he tells advertisers to go fuck themselves.
KanaMauna@arstechnica How dare everybody not give me money.
Will S@arstechnica An absolutely horrible human being. Don't use Twitter, and don't buy Tesla.
@arstechnica It is even funny to see how musk can't digest/process the mere fact that X reputation is so disgusting these days that even spineless greedy zero-principles hungry-for-rofit corporations find placing ads on X dangerous for their profits, heh....
PhDog 🇮🇪@arstechnica
Maybe they are just too busy f*cking themselves like he told them to to put in the ad buys.
Maybe they are just too busy f*cking themselves like he told them to to put in the ad buys.
Darwin Woodka@arstechnica pfffffffft
CyThis just in, it's now illegal to agree not to buy things with your friends. The police will be arresting all members of #BuyNothing groups any day now. Colluders, colluding to conspire against the rich!
Caterine Vauban@cy @arstechnica Where'd you hear this?
From Elon Musk, Himself!
Pop Justy 
@arstechnica The humor that in all of this, breaking up large corporations because they hurt consumers never occurred to any of these people.
The report is titled:
> GARM’S HARM: HOW THE WORLD’S BIGGEST BRANDS SEEK TO CONTROL
ONLINE SPEECH
They aren't mad these companies control food prices or anything like that. They're upset because these groups called them "hard right".
Musk isn't mad that free speech is being stomped. Musk is mad because he isn't making enough ad money.
That's the thing in all of this. They don't want these corporations to be harmed, they just want to get their cut of the profits.
It's all performance, because as much as they'll talk "antitrust" these conglomerates didn't appear last week. There's been plenty times to have stopped all of this.
They don't want to fix things. Musk still wants to completely control speech, he just wants to make money while he does it. And he's upset because he's getting cut out of the club.
You look at the rulings Congress cited about lawsuits brought about under section 1 of the Sherman Act, the most recent one is from 1986. 1986! There's a reason for that.
They don't want to actually enforce it, because they know if they do, that it opens a door for everyone to come after them for the exact same thing.
Martha Lemert@arstechnica using the power of Government to force people to spend money to prop up his companies? Fascists find this much easier than actually providing a product that people want to buy.
#elonmusk
#fascists
#elonmusk
#fascists
Father Enoch"Colluding" HOW, exactly?
By refusing to give ad revenue to a #Whitesupremacist who endorses #Nazis in the name of "free speech?"
Kagan MacTane (he/him)@arstechnica I understand why Elon thinks this.
I understand why the Republican-controlled Congressional committee agreed with him (they like fascism and Nazism).
What I really don't understand, though, is why Ars Technica's article seems to take Elon's and the Republicans' words at face value, with so little pushback or critical commentary. That's honestly dangerous at this point.
Does Ars Technica consider itself to be journalism? If so, then it should do the proper job of journalists.
@arstechnica That might be the most rent-seeking sentence I've ever read.
Pathetic #muskrat wants to force people to buy ads now.
@arstechnica “Congress” didn’t accuse advertisers of collusion, at best a committee did. The article kept referring to “congress” as if both the house and senate voted to issue a report accusing advertisers of collusion.
Ars, you’re better than this.
Todd Hensley@arstechnica but remember, Musk believes in free speech and Republicans want the government to not interfere with businesses.
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James White@arstechnica criminal prosecutions for things that are imagined slights and not actual laws is where were at, is it?
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@arstechnica He alone tanked Twitter.
Lee 🌏@arstechnica
When Elon and Trump say "Conservative," they mean White Supremacist.
Let's not beat around the bush.
That's what we are dealing with here.
When Elon and Trump say "Conservative," they mean White Supremacist.
Let's not beat around the bush.
That's what we are dealing with here.
RodneyPetersonTalentAgencyJesus Christ every day this scumbag Musk finds brand new ways to be an even bigger dipshit.
And now…
A special message to Elon Musk from a coalition of advertising agencies and billions of citizens of the Planet Earth…
Universal pictures says "fuck you"
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@arstechnica Imagine considering a vendor, like a phone company, that has been known to sue and call for criminal prosecution of customers who decided to stop using the service.
Éibhear 🔭@arstechnica The ad industry has been working very hard for decades to criminalise efforts to avoid ads. It sounds ludicrous, but in 2016 the Newspaper Association of America petitioned the FTC to make adblockers illegal. 10-15 years ago there was a push to make skipping ads using a DVR illegal.
Musk's demand here sounds totally reasonable to some people. However, I'd say they're not thanking him; he has so pooped the bed that they'd hate him to be their spokesman.
RolingMetal@arstechnica I'm also boycotting twitter, I hope musk won't suit me :)