NEWS: X just kicked out one of its biggest accounts for stealing content. Massimo built a massive following by taking other creators' videos, cutting out the watermark and posting them as his own. Thousands of videos. Same trick every time. Nikita Bier, X's head of product, told him directly: "Today is your last day in the Creator Program."

@muskonomy The account is still active but he's no longer making any money off of it. Which honestly is fine with me. No social media platform, not X, not youtube, not facebook, should be offering monetized incentives to post content. It leads to waaaayyy too many problems.

@RealDaveWinter @muskonomy Only problem is, should these huge companies be keeping all of the ad revenue they're earning from hosting content that individuals are spending time to create? YT channels are earning MILLIONS from views. Should YT just get to keep all the revenue?

@RealDaveWinter @muskonomy I agree, without monetization there would be no 1st Amendment Auditors harrassing people. YouTube is flooded with low-effort content of people stealing other people's content.

@RealDaveWinter @muskonomy For instance they're already making $9B in ad revenue.... And how much of that gets paid out to people providing the videos?

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@RealDaveWinter @muskonomy The moment someone talks about the account i see Massimo talk about health issues Is that real or just drama?