[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Robert W Gehl]

I just tried again, hoping the ban was lifted after negative coverage.

No such luck: https://nextcloud.robertwgehl.org/index.php/s/pAB23rP4JkCKj7J

That screenshot is 12.55 Eastern US time zone.

For the record, Scholar.social doesn't host any "Elonjet" content and 
actually silences the instance that does.

- Rob

On 2022-12-16 12:50, Fred Fuchs wrote:
> On 12/16/2022 7:29 AM, Robert W Gehl via Air-L wrote:
>> 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." 
>
> 1. After testing, this block doesn't appear comprehensive across all 
> of Twitter. It's possible to add a Mastodon link as the name of one's 
> Twitter account.
>
> 2. We only tested this with examples like "mastodon.social/@(Mastodon 
> account name)."
>
> 3. A warning though, adding a link to any incarnation of Elonjet on 
> other platforms might lead to Twitter account suspension given the 
> currently established precedent.
>
> Fred
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