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Musk, the Movie

193 points · 165 comments · yablak

clumsysmurf · 1790565432 · focus · HN ↗
Hopefully the word gets out, because
"The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’"
<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk...
1. guelo · 1790570655 · focus · HN ↗
  This is so worrying. All the evil billionaires banding together means democracy is in grave danger.
  1. saturn8601 · 1790572576 · focus · HN ↗
    I'm looking at the Theater list right now and it's not looking great maybe they're still ironing out the details. We are still a few weeks away. Social media companies can block all they want, but there are tons of art house theaters across the country that can play this thing, and they're not(so far). It's really annoying that the first run is only on these enthusiast-led theaters. It's a bad omen its as if the distributors don't have a lot of confidence in this film.
  2. wallst07 · 1790594786 · focus · HN ↗
    "So worrying" ... because of marketing for a movie?
    I can think of 1000 things more worrying that ad money for a documentary not being accepted for whatever reason on private platoforms.
    JKCalhoun · 1790597015 · focus · HN ↗
    I can think of few more petty though.
    guelo · 1790615083 · focus · HN ↗
    It's political speech. If they own and censor all the marketing and distribution channels do we really have free speech?

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