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@hakui
This is one of the rare times in my modern clown era that I will comment on a news post. Only because there is something to highlight about this news story.
So the story is that yahoo had a "woman CEO moment" and chose to buy Tumblr instead of Netflix or Hulu. Hulu being notable as it was closer in price to Tumblr. Of course the purchase was disastrous and Tumblr had lost all of its value in the six years after its purchase.
So this begs the question: why did yahoo buy Tumblr?
When you think about the time period, 2013-2014 of the purchase, Netflix was the big dog in town but everyone with a bit of foresight knew that streaming wasn't going anywhere. In fact during this time frame yahoo had already been producing shows for streaming. So why buy Tumblr which has perhaps no practical value compared to other social networks?
I have that answer: societal control
It's no secret now that yahoo along with other large sites work with the US government to provide user data to them via the prism project. But what if it goes a bit further than that? Here was their plan:
>Foster community of weirdos on Tumblr
>Buy Tumblr
>Claim CP on platform
>Use another prism project member apple to threaten Tumblr with deplaforming
>Ban all porn off Tumblr driving all the weirdos to twitter
>Culture war accelerates on Twitter
Note that they went hard on them for CP but some places (like reddit) manage to avoid any sort of scrutiny for years. They use this claim to drive traffic off of Tumblr via overcorrection, centralizing traffic to twitter where the alphabet soup agencies start moderation.
Fast forward to last year, Elon Musk (who also glows) decides to purchase twitter. And like clockwork the same set of events happens with Twitter almost exactly:
>Buy twitter
>Apple threatens to deplaform twitter for hate speech
>Musk meets with Apple
>CP banning claims happen afterward
>Meanwhile porn artists start getting banned and shadowbanned despite their content not being illegal
Now following this blueprint, what exactly does this accelerate? The "Web 3.0" movement. Suddenly people are now starting to talk about using decentralized technologies. Part of which is of course the fediverse. Blue sky is now getting developed, mastodon is starting more development, and people are slowly starting to shift onto fedi such as the Japanese artist on misskey.
Everything that led up to this, all started because yahoo bought Tumblr. It was not a mistake it was planned
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This is one of the rare times in my modern clown era that I will comment on a news post. Only because there is something to highlight about this news story.
So the story is that yahoo had a "woman CEO moment" and chose to buy Tumblr instead of Netflix or Hulu. Hulu being notable as it was closer in price to Tumblr. Of course the purchase was disastrous and Tumblr had lost all of its value in the six years after its purchase.
So this begs the question: why did yahoo buy Tumblr?
When you think about the time period, 2013-2014 of the purchase, Netflix was the big dog in town but everyone with a bit of foresight knew that streaming wasn't going anywhere. In fact during this time frame yahoo had already been producing shows for streaming. So why buy Tumblr which has perhaps no practical value compared to other social networks?
I have that answer: societal control
It's no secret now that yahoo along with other large sites work with the US government to provide user data to them via the prism project. But what if it goes a bit further than that? Here was their plan:
>Foster community of weirdos on Tumblr
>Buy Tumblr
>Claim CP on platform
>Use another prism project member apple to threaten Tumblr with deplaforming
>Ban all porn off Tumblr driving all the weirdos to twitter
>Culture war accelerates on Twitter
Note that they went hard on them for CP but some places (like reddit) manage to avoid any sort of scrutiny for years. They use this claim to drive traffic off of Tumblr via overcorrection, centralizing traffic to twitter where the alphabet soup agencies start moderation.
Fast forward to last year, Elon Musk (who also glows) decides to purchase twitter. And like clockwork the same set of events happens with Twitter almost exactly:
>Buy twitter
>Apple threatens to deplaform twitter for hate speech
>Musk meets with Apple
>CP banning claims happen afterward
>Meanwhile porn artists start getting banned and shadowbanned despite their content not being illegal
Now following this blueprint, what exactly does this accelerate? The "Web 3.0" movement. Suddenly people are now starting to talk about using decentralized technologies. Part of which is of course the fediverse. Blue sky is now getting developed, mastodon is starting more development, and people are slowly starting to shift onto fedi such as the Japanese artist on misskey.
Everything that led up to this, all started because yahoo bought Tumblr. It was not a mistake it was planned
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I don't think they have that kind of foresight. I do think there are obvious spooks on the Yahoo/Twitter sides (I mean some of them went straight from the CIA to Twitter .. after Musk .. and it's on their LinkedIn; they don't even try to hide it). It's difficult to tell what was a type of psyops and what was incompetence.
Everything that's free and independent eventually gets taken over and scaled up ... newspapers, radio, television ... people thought network neutrality would be the big issue, but it really wasn't.
One of the biggest thing missing from the Internet of the 90s: multiple search engines with different results.
Everything that's free and independent eventually gets taken over and scaled up ... newspapers, radio, television ... people thought network neutrality would be the big issue, but it really wasn't.
One of the biggest thing missing from the Internet of the 90s: multiple search engines with different results.
@djsumdog @hakui
>It's difficult to tell what was a type of psyops and what was incompetence.
When you consider things as intentional you get some very interesting takes on situations.
If Yahoo bought Hulu they would have most certainly made a profit. Through the purchase with Disney or some other company. So it's interesting to wonder if they didn't want to buy Hulu exactly why did they not want to do it?
I can buy that yahoo is stupid because they have been for years. But the purchase of Tumblr was always suspicious.
>It's difficult to tell what was a type of psyops and what was incompetence.
When you consider things as intentional you get some very interesting takes on situations.
If Yahoo bought Hulu they would have most certainly made a profit. Through the purchase with Disney or some other company. So it's interesting to wonder if they didn't want to buy Hulu exactly why did they not want to do it?
I can buy that yahoo is stupid because they have been for years. But the purchase of Tumblr was always suspicious.
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