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Elon Musk’s Twitter Suspends Accounts of Several Journalists

• ttul 4y ago
  ‘Mr. Musk tweeted last month: “My com­mit­ment to free speech ex­tends even to not ban­ning the ac­count fol­low­ing my plane, even though that is a di­rect per­sonal safety risk.” On Wednes­day, though, he equated the prac­tice to doxxing, or the pub­lish­ing of pri­vate in­for­ma­tion on­line with ma­li­cious in­tent, tweet-ing: “Real-time post­ing of some­one else’s lo­ca­tion vi­o­lates doxxing pol­icy, but de­layed post­ing of lo­ca­tions are ok.”’
  • ttul 4y ago
    Mastodon link posting also appears to be blocked. I mean, perhaps it’s time to deactivate the Twitter account and head on over to Mastodon.
    • PartiallyTyped 4y ago
      FYI, Mastodon's official twitter account was banned without any violation of any apparently made up rules.
      • cldellow 4y ago
        The @joinmastodon account had posted a tweet that linked to the ElonJet account's new home on mastodon.social. Banning them for that seems aggressive (vs: blocking/removing that tweet), but it's at least consistent. Banning all links to any Mastodon server is pretty indefensible, though.
        • PartiallyTyped 4y ago
          > Banning them for that seems aggressive (vs: blocking/removing that tweet), but it's at least consistent. In other cases, twitter accounts were only suspended temporarily, and given that there was nothing about that in the TOS, and Musk updated it post-facto says that they should have never been banned in the first place, the tweets should have been deleted, and that's it.