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"Their side?" Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. Also whether censorship is right or wrong is normally bas

"Their side?" Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. Also whether censorship is right or wrong is normally based on what is being censored not the person.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
> Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. This is simply not true, just search Mastodon.social links on Twitter via this link, and notice that posters are not banned: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social&s... You could even search https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2F%40elonjet&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2... , who post specifically about banned @elonjet account, and my first ten clicks on posters all happened to be non-suspended account. I don't think there is a need to check it further, your point is already invalidated.
- notpachet 4y ago
  You're right about those users not being summarily banned. But it's still interesting what happens when you try to click one of those Mastodon links...
  - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
    What is interesting about landing on https://mastodon.social/@elonjet https://mastodon.social/@elonjet ? I just did it. Not even a warning 'you are opening a link', like many sane apps do, including mine.
    - allarm 4y ago
      There is a warning, I’ve just tried that. You can ignore it and continue.
  - WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
    > it's still interesting what happens when you try to click one of those Mastodon links... For those who Nitterize their Twitter: Twitter sends Mastadon clicks to a Unsafe Link Warning page. Man. I'm kind of in awe of Musk's limitless ability to diminish himself.
    - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
      > Twitter sends Mastadon clicks to a Unsafe Link Warning page. At the moment, it doesn't. If you don't believe me on my word, I can record a screen capture video for you.
      - shubhamkrm 4y ago
        I clicked on the link and it sent me to the warning page. Do you want me to record a screen capture video for you? Edit: Adding screen capture: https://imgur.io/a/RGk5Jx6 https://imgur.io/a/RGk5Jx6
        Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
        This sounds to me like there might be some A/B testing going on.
        Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
        I was talking about clicking on a link from a desktop browser. No warning at all. ...and on mobile it is beyond sensible to make a warning when leaving to view external links: mobile apps and mobile browsers do do not have the capability to show the exact url you are about to open (in desktop you call hover over a link), which can lead to all sorts of bad things, first of which is spoofing your ip address. Hell, even we in our open source xmpp clients show a mandatory warning with full URL you are about to open, so you know where you will land. This is a safety feature, not malice! (I'd actually add it to desktop web version of Twitter too)
        shubhamkrm 4y ago
- WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
  >> Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. > This is simply not true, just search Mastodon.social links on Twitter via this link, As referenced by phoe-krk above, Twitter appears to be blocking Mastadon addresses in bios, not in tweets. That makes it a slightly different scumbaggery than we thought. I find the BBC headline is confusing; it says users are blocked for 'Sharing' Mastadon links, which sort of (wrongly) hints that one can't tweet Mastadon links.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

> Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. This is simply not true, just search Mastodon.social links on Twitter via this link, and notice that posters are not banned: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social&s... You could even search https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2F%40elonjet&src=typed_query&f=live https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2... , who post specifically about banned @elonjet account, and my first ten clicks on posters all happened to be non-suspended account. I don't think there is a need to check it further, your point is already invalidated.

notpachet 4y ago
You're right about those users not being summarily banned. But it's still interesting what happens when you try to click one of those Mastodon links...
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  What is interesting about landing on https://mastodon.social/@elonjet https://mastodon.social/@elonjet ? I just did it. Not even a warning 'you are opening a link', like many sane apps do, including mine.
  - allarm 4y ago
    There is a warning, I’ve just tried that. You can ignore it and continue.
- WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
  > it's still interesting what happens when you try to click one of those Mastodon links... For those who Nitterize their Twitter: Twitter sends Mastadon clicks to a Unsafe Link Warning page. Man. I'm kind of in awe of Musk's limitless ability to diminish himself.
  - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
    > Twitter sends Mastadon clicks to a Unsafe Link Warning page. At the moment, it doesn't. If you don't believe me on my word, I can record a screen capture video for you.
    - shubhamkrm 4y ago
      I clicked on the link and it sent me to the warning page. Do you want me to record a screen capture video for you? Edit: Adding screen capture: https://imgur.io/a/RGk5Jx6 https://imgur.io/a/RGk5Jx6
      - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
        This sounds to me like there might be some A/B testing going on.
      - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
        I was talking about clicking on a link from a desktop browser. No warning at all. ...and on mobile it is beyond sensible to make a warning when leaving to view external links: mobile apps and mobile browsers do do not have the capability to show the exact url you are about to open (in desktop you call hover over a link), which can lead to all sorts of bad things, first of which is spoofing your ip address. Hell, even we in our open source xmpp clients show a mandatory warning with full URL you are about to open, so you know where you will land. This is a safety feature, not malice! (I'd actually add it to desktop web version of Twitter too)
        shubhamkrm 4y ago
WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
>> Anyone who posts Mastadon links are being banned regardless of political affiliations. > This is simply not true, just search Mastodon.social links on Twitter via this link, As referenced by phoe-krk above, Twitter appears to be blocking Mastadon addresses in bios, not in tweets. That makes it a slightly different scumbaggery than we thought. I find the BBC headline is confusing; it says users are blocked for 'Sharing' Mastadon links, which sort of (wrongly) hints that one can't tweet Mastadon links.