[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Joseph Reagle]

The purported rationale is that a (big) Mastodon instance now hosts ElonJet.

https://ohai.social/@elonjet@mastodon.social

The issue of linking to potentially harmful or illegal content is a genuine one for moderation policy (e.g., Wikipedia linking to critical/stalker forums) and the law (e.g., search engines linking to pirate websites).
But the thinness of this rationale is belied by the fact that ElonJet also exists on FB, and Musk hasn't banned all FB links. This excuse is as fragile as Musk's ego -- who threatened Cooley LLP that he'd yank Tesla's business if they didn't fire a recent hire who had *merely* worked at the SEC.

—Joseph

On 12/16/22 08:58, Vivian Gerrand via Air-L wrote:
> Also interesting that he would bother. An indication of how much Musk feels threatened by the migration of Twitter users to Mastodon? Or (more likely) simply staking his claim as a warrior in a culture war?