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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by dang »

herpderperator wrote: post #683
dang wrote: post #680

We've changed the URL from https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603593201683599360?s=46... , which doesn't have much information, to an article that has more information (the most out of the half a dozen I looked at). If there's a better article, we can change it again.

Could you un-paywall it?

Sorry, I didn't realize (it wasn't paywalled when I looked).

Would https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512004/elon-musk-start... be better? It seems to have most of the same info, just in a somewhat more sensational way.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by archagon »

hayleox wrote: post #305
Natsu wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the article: > Twitter took action against Mastodon after the account linked to the Mastodon page of @ElonJet, a student-made bot that tracks the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet.

Yeah, no. They've also blocked anyone from posting links to major Mastodon instances like mastodon.social or mas.to, and if you try to click any existing links to those sites on Twitter, you'll get a scary warning that it's a malicious site.

Can't even put it in your profile anymore!

Nothing like free speech!

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by diebeforei485 »

I think it's a perfectly reasonable rule. Most of the reporting on where people go will not suffer from having a next-day delay on social media.

Journalists who cover Bezos / Zuck / Elon full time can always constantly refresh ADS-B tracking websites, but that doesn't mean they have to be able to post live location tracking on Twitter.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by xracy »

calculatte wrote: post #671
barbariangrunge wrote: post #296

> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…

What is everyone up in arms for? This is a private company, so he can do whatever he wants. That is what everyone has been saying for years. I mean, it turns out they were wrong and Twitter was actually colluding with government agencies to bypass the first amendment. But censorship and targeted suspensions were defended tooth and nail by internet commenters. Is this a problem now only because people you like are tar…

In a word, Hypocrisy. Everyone is up in arms for Hypocrisy.

Musk's statement was that free speech would be allowed on Twitter. And yet, here he is chilling free speech. It's not surprising. It's just also really bad. So people are up in arms that they're losing a platform that, while by no means perfect, was better for free speech than it currently is.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by postingawayonhn »

calculatte wrote: post #671
barbariangrunge wrote: post #296

> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…

What is everyone up in arms for? This is a private company, so he can do whatever he wants. That is what everyone has been saying for years. I mean, it turns out they were wrong and Twitter was actually colluding with government agencies to bypass the first amendment. But censorship and targeted suspensions were defended tooth and nail by internet commenters. Is this a problem now only because people you like are tar…

> What is everyone up in arms for? This is a private company, so he can do whatever he wants.

They're just sick and tired of the billionaire hypocrite.

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Post by fredophile »

darawk wrote: post #609
GoofballJones wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned. The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year…

> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Do you have evidence of that? He claims they were reporting the location.

You're asking for evidence that they didn't tweet something? It isn't our job to prove a negative. Just take a look at their tweets and show me the ones where they DID report on the location of the jet. Can't find them? Neither can Elon Musk? That's odd, maybe they never existed after all.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by xracy »

iaw wrote: post #236
boomboomsubban wrote: post #204

Someone posted yesterday that the beginning of Musk's Twitter buy happened shortly after elonjet refused his $5000 offer to buy the account. The rational part of me says he surely couldn't have spent $45 billion dollars to shut the account down, but it's kinda feeling more and more true as the story continues. It's like this is the 21st century version of the San Francisco story where Yung refused to sell their house…

The story https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Crocker%27s_Spite_Fe...

I am now wondering if the misspelling in the original post was an accident... or intentional. "Crocker" :D

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Post by Ekaros »

And why them being journalists make them any different? Does journalists deserve any better protection?

Or if we think sensibly shouldn't they be held to highest possible standards. Like single mistake and they get a strike and with like two or three strike they are permanently out.

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