[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Robert W Gehl]

In addition to the 11 journalists being booted from Twitter, a related 
development: Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon and other fediverse 
sites. This morning, I attempted to post a link to my Mastodon profile 
(https://scholar.social/@robertwgehl). It was blocked due to it being 
"harmful content."

In addition, Twitter has suspended @joinmastodon, the main Mastodon 
developers' account.

Perhaps this is an old fashioned capitalist attempt to crush the 
competition?

Or maybe not. As a test, I tried posting a link to the far-right site 
Gab.com, a social media site which harbors self-identified Nazis and was 
the social media of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. Gab styles itself 
as a free speech absolutist alternative to Twitter.

The Gab.com link was allowed.

- Rob

On 2022-12-15 22:47, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11
> journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly
> disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know?
> I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I am
> not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the
> platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for
> my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses
> such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon ,
> but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and
> wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
>
> Thanks,
> Emma