[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Shulman, Stu]

Fight back, resist, and ask yourself this: What Would Howard Zinn do? Emma,
the answer may be to read "A Peoples' History of the United States" then do
what people have always done: protest, strategize, speak up, check your
fears at the door, and put everything into bending the arc of history
toward justice and away from white supremacists and other historical bigots
of all varieties. No professor had a bigger impact on me, which is why I
cannot remain silent in the face of simmering retrenchment of the minority
rule thesis. Everything about this moment calls for collective action on
and off the Internet.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 5:48 AM Dr. Emma Briant <teflpolsoc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with you completely… but what do we doooo?
>
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 05:25, Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com> wrote:
>
>> For those of us building tools to study the impact of Twitter on
>> politics, it was always a rocky ride watching bad actors skirt the best
>> efforts to regulate them. Now that a single bad actor is the sole regulator
>> of the Twitter architecture, we are in a scary place with the former head
>> of Trust & Safety literally in hiding because of Elon's creepy QAnon style
>> doxxing attack. An argument I put in a short animated video in 2016 about
>> Lawrence Lessig and his brilliant book from 1999 remains relevant to the
>> debate, but we may need to add a fifth regulator: the reckless American
>> oligarch monarchist. Elon Musk now controls the Twitter architecture in
>> ways that evolve dangerously daily and thumbs his nose at markets, norms,
>> and what Lessig called east coast code; the law. The fifth regulator is
>> power. Raw, almost unlimited, power to take over where Trump left off,
>> making Twitter a weapon. For what end, only one man knows.
>>
>> https://vimeo.com/129423037
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:56 PM Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <
>> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> 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
>>> --
>>> Dr Emma L Briant
>>>
>>> Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
>>> Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and
>>> Society
>>> Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
>>> Accountability
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>>>
>>> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global
>>> Change *from
>>> Manchester University Press
>>> Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr.
>>> Pauline
>>> Donald from Pluto Press.
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>>
>> --
>> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
>> Founder and CEO, Texifter
>> Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*
>>
>>
>> --
> Dr Emma L Briant
>
> Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
> Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society
> Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
> Accountability
> Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant
> Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk
>
> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global
> Change *from Manchester University Press
> Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr.
> Pauline Donald from Pluto Press.
> Sign up for my Newsletter
> <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>!
> Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant
>
> "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns
> out today is." - Steve Martin
>


-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter
Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*