4 ms·

> So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. H

> So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. He also brought back a ton of banned people … who were similarly banned without explanation. In this case, he needs to set rules and judges for his kingdom if he wants a certain group to keep using it. As an aside, one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context. Add commentary on top, and actively mislead people. Imo these aren’t journalists, they’re activists

D-Coder 4y ago
> one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context Certainly a good reason to ban everyone who had the same vowel in their name... or something.
ceejayoz 4y ago
> As an aside, one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context. Add commentary on top, and actively mislead people. Imo these aren’t journalists, they’re activists All of these things - mischaracterization, commentary, misinformation, activism - fall well within the "free speech" Musk said he'd be protecting, even if your assertions are true.
- lettergram 4y ago
  Certainly, I don’t think banning anyone is okay. Musk isn’t actually doing anything but applying the already existing anti-doxing rules. Project Veritas (also a “journalists”) was banned for over a year for accidentally having an address in one of their videos. I think both cases are ridiculous, but the same journalists who were recently banned cheered veritas being banned. No banning, anyone, for any reasons, besides direct threats - aka first amendment (I would argue real-time tracking is probably a threat, but idk)
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    > Musk isn’t actually doing anything but applying the already existing anti-doxing rules. False. They very publicly tweaked those rules after the ban. (They also include a media exemption, which is being ignored.) https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165959669354496 https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165959669354496 > Project Veritas (also a “journalists”) was banned for over a year for accidentally having an address in one of their videos. No, he wasn’t. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/twitter-bans-james-okeefe-of-project-veritas-over-fake-account-policy/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/twitter-bans-james-okeefe-... “A Twitter representative said the action followed the violation of rules prohibiting “operating fake accounts” and attempting to “artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts,” as noted here.” “Update: The image was in fact redacted, I thought it was done by the person who took the screenshot but the first digits were removed in the original tweet.”

D-Coder 4y ago

> one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context Certainly a good reason to ban everyone who had the same vowel in their name... or something.

ceejayoz 4y ago

> As an aside, one of the people banned was known to take clips out of context. Add commentary on top, and actively mislead people. Imo these aren’t journalists, they’re activists All of these things - mischaracterization, commentary, misinformation, activism - fall well within the "free speech" Musk said he'd be protecting, even if your assertions are true.

lettergram 4y ago
Certainly, I don’t think banning anyone is okay. Musk isn’t actually doing anything but applying the already existing anti-doxing rules. Project Veritas (also a “journalists”) was banned for over a year for accidentally having an address in one of their videos. I think both cases are ridiculous, but the same journalists who were recently banned cheered veritas being banned. No banning, anyone, for any reasons, besides direct threats - aka first amendment (I would argue real-time tracking is probably a threat, but idk)
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  > Musk isn’t actually doing anything but applying the already existing anti-doxing rules. False. They very publicly tweaked those rules after the ban. (They also include a media exemption, which is being ignored.) https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165959669354496 https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165959669354496 > Project Veritas (also a “journalists”) was banned for over a year for accidentally having an address in one of their videos. No, he wasn’t. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/twitter-bans-james-okeefe-of-project-veritas-over-fake-account-policy/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/twitter-bans-james-okeefe-... “A Twitter representative said the action followed the violation of rules prohibiting “operating fake accounts” and attempting to “artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts,” as noted here.” “Update: The image was in fact redacted, I thought it was done by the person who took the screenshot but the first digits were removed in the original tweet.”