Even cable TV providers allow ads for DirecTV, etc.
Cable tv providers pay for content from networks/channels who themselves put ads. Cable TV providers could only block ads by not buying channels with ads.
Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon
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So.. free speech works best when everyone you don't agree with is silenced? Here's what Musk said in April ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657 ): "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means" I think you all need to make up your minds.
it's not everyone https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1597614237093...
Interesting thread. Are any of those strictly illegal?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
"no one": https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/elon-musk-t...
Can't read it. But I'm assuming it isn't arguing that the government needs to nationalize all social media platforms, repeal Section 230 protections and make content moderation illegal, like half of Hacker News was until Elon took over Twitter, when suddenly they became stalwart supporters of free enterprise.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't read it. But I'm assuming it isn't arguing that the government needs to nationalize all social media platforms, repeal Section 230 protections and make content moderation illegal, like half of Hacker News was until Elon took over Twitter, when suddenly they became stalwart supporters of free enterprise.
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If you've got nothing more substantive to offer than a personal attack and some weird imaginary tangent then I think we're done here.
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#85The Twitter accounts of journalists are also being suspended, presumably because they dared to talk about ElonJet: https://twitter.com/drewharwell https://twitter.com/RMac18 https://twitter.com/donie This journalist has not been suspended yet: https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy This is not a good look for Twitter or for Musk.
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Poe's law.
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#86We figured out that we’re not allowed to encourage stalking, but if we call it “press coverage” of stalking then we can pretend it’s not stalking. The analogy doesn’t hold anywhere, child porn, drug sales, anything. This is a honeypot for the very lowest-performing flies. The traditional press may be gleefully rubbing its tiny legs together but the logic doesn’t survive first-order scrutiny.
What does this have to do with Mastodon?
If you post stalking on mastodon on twitter, apparently you get banned. Not all that complicated. I am sure you can share child porn on mastodon too, doesn’t have much to do with Twitter either as far as anyone can tell.
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#88I was suspended for posting this https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/109520648205436407
The message from the image:
Twitter just banned Mastodon's official Twitter account @joinmastodon with 174,000 followers, probably because it tweeted a link to @ElonJet's Mastodon account. Twitter is now censoring posting the link, but the user is @elonjet@maston.social
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Last time I looked into Mastodon (a couple years ago), I found a small, specific community that piqued my interest. Months later, the owner of the instance lost interest and closed it. In the end I never registered, but, what would have happened if I did and started to use it in my day to day? Would I wake up one day to find out that I no longer have a Mastodon account? I feel the response might be something akin to…
This is an issue addressed by the Mastodon Server Covenant: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant The Covenant includes a commitment from server admins to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down
That's an agreement with no teeth, they can just shut it down without warning, and then what do you do.