The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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    Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck’s sake, some of us don’t think this is tech news worthy and it’s frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam… you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.

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      I’ve seen a Firefox plugin called block the rich… I guess it wouldn’t fly if they called it block Elon

      Not used it so don’t know if it’s any good

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        Will try now and report back!

        Edit: it’s good. It blurs out text. Sadly not images!

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      I think if you blocked the person who posted this you’d see a big reduction. It’s usually the same account posting Musk news.

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      You realize that you are in a technology news section of Lemmy, right? This dude influences technology.

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        Does he though? Seems like it’s mostly him failing at business.

        Anyway, the news coverage of him is unbalanced because it’s his plan to be on the news constantly and forever.

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      Well no, I think bad publicity is a thing, with current cancel culture for saying the wrong things, it can ruin your career. Also pedo allegations do hit hard.

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        9 months ago

        If this was the case, Musk’s career would have been over.

        Instead this publicity fuels him and his wasteful endeavors.

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          Your career can only be ruined if you rely on other people to fund your career. He has enough money (and loans and solvent businesses he hasn’t decided to tank yet) independently to keep going when others would have had to pack up.

          You think any other non-billionaire could weather the absolute drain of most advertisers leaving Twitter?

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            Your career can’t be easily ruined if you shit gold.

            In a fair world, Musk would be rotting in some sewer.