[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Paul Levinson]

I was interviewed about Elon Musk and Twitter last night right before this
news began breaking
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0HjJCgiEQuT1TVYGXmEgIg?si=852d798e687149bf

-- PL

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 2:13 PM Samuel DiBella via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> 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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