Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
I wouldn’t call it “surreal” at all, I’d call it “completely expected” given who runs that platform
Elon Free Speech Musk himself? Never!
He must have a tiny pp to be that insecure
Elon Musk’s pp? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. Very tiny.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Depressing how quickly this kind of stuff went from outrageous to completely normal.
Social networks that do this should lose any safe harbor provisions. Government are so fucking far behind with basic common sense.
Absolutely. You cannot claim safe harbor while banning stuff like this.
i hate banning anyone as much as the next anarcho-dingus but afaik there’s no law against banning whoever you want and i’m not sure there should be one. i don’t know what the answer is, if it isn’t public control of all social media.
maybe some public funded internet services such as defederated twitter and reddit alternatives? completely open and paid for with taxes, in direct competition with their for-profit contemporaries.
Like the BBC mastadon instance social.bbc
O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
“I was very, very reluctant to be a Twitter doomer because it had done so much for me… But it’s really at the point where it doesn’t really work in practical terms. It is not as useful as an object as it used to be. It incentivises lots of extremely negative and hateful speech and has really made that a big kind of calling card of its business for the last year or two… that you can go on there and say anything.”
Fediverse is waiting.
Glad I stopped using Twitter eons ago.
Well that’s actually exactly what I’d expect
Séamas gave us of the funniest story threads I’ve ever read on that cursed site: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/992006545473966082.html
Yup - this is one that stayed with me. This has earned a place in internet history.
I wanna know the timeframe here. Ket doesn’t last very long.
Towards the end he says that it was about 35 minutes. Plus maybe green ket is like blue meth.
This should be a post. Much better!
Holy shit, thanks for that
First off, just call it Twitter.
Second, get off Twitter!
It’s time for news orgs and journalists to say a) “we’re hosting our content on our own Mastodon server and that will be the source of truth for federated platforms (eventually including Threads and Bluesky)”, b) “we will mirror the content across non-federated social media platforms that support free and fair reporting”.
In other words give Twitter the middle finger and make the content available everywhere.
Musk is only a free speech absolutist for the speech he supports.
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sometimes the work is more important than the tools
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Man a news source needs eyeballs, wherever those are they’ll distribute.
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when you have an important job, sometimes yeah.
I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers…
What pains me the most is that idiots still simp for Elon after all of this.
They simp because of this. He is “owning the libs” by being a fragile thin-skinned clown while unbanning actual Nazis.
Has this “journalist” been in a coma since twitters purchase? One of the first things done was the removal of ‘elonjet’ and a plethora of elon critics
“Liberal finds it surreal that neoliberalism creates fascism”
Such a weird thing! :D
“Free speech absolutist”, my ass…
The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
Well there’s your problem, it’s 14 so Daddy Musk started taking an interest in fucking it.
Anyone surprised by Musky at this point only has themselves to blame.
