[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Samuel DiBella]

I wanted to add that it's not just accounts of individuals/individual 
journalists that are getting banned. The anti-capitalist news site /It's 
Going Down/ has also had its account suspended.

—S

On 12/16/22 9:31 AM, Joseph Reagle via Air-L wrote:
> 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?
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