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Mike Masnick ✅

Okay, I have written a post about Elon banning Mastodon on Twitter:

"Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account"

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/15/elons-commitment-to-free-speech-rapidly-replaced-by-his-commitment-to-blatant-hypocrisy-bans-the-joinmastodon-account/

Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account

Oh, Elon. Following on yesterday’s nonsense in banning the ElonJet account that robotically posted the public information regarding Elon’s private plane flights, and then trying to just…

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Dec 16, 2022 at 12:17amWeb
Show threadMike Meadway 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇬🇧Dec 16, 2022
@mmasnick He's got several Mastodon accounts from what I can see, on several servers. Just followed two of them; not sure which is "primary"...
Show threadAdam West-ishDec 16, 2022
@mmeadway @mmasnick whichever one is farther from Earth and closer to Mars where it'll be harder to enforce human rights amongst the future SpaceX colonist/slaves.
Show threadMike Meadway 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇬🇧Dec 16, 2022
@adamprall @mmasnick Think I goofed and responded to the wrong post. Was looking at Aaron Rupar's suspension.
Show threadAdam West-ishDec 16, 2022
@mmeadway @mmasnick oh shoots, well I like your point of view anyway, hope my reply was appropriate! LOL have a great evening!
Show threadMike Meadway 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇬🇧Dec 16, 2022
@adamprall @mmasnick No sweat -- liked the point about being close to Mars :-)
Show threadAdam West-ishDec 16, 2022
@mmeadway @mmasnick Highly recommend the game "Moons of Madness" - reminds me of what might happen if Elon was allowed to start a Mars colony. https://www.moonsofmadness.com/
Moons of Madness

First-person cosmic horror game mixing Mars exploration with Lovecraft. Coming Halloween 2019 to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Moons of Madness
Show threadAdam West-ishDec 16, 2022
@mmeadway @mmasnick Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann, but not Vladimir Putin
Show threadAdam West-ishDec 16, 2022
@mmeadway @mmasnick Elon Musk is a shameful Russian troll!
Show threadJoé McKenDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Dude it literally JUST happened. Do you have a typing speed of 5,000 WPM or something
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@joemcken I do type fast.
Show threadJoé McKenDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick So do I, but then I have to re-read and edit what I write twenty times before I’m happy with it.
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@joemcken i do have a (small) team, and I gave them a heads up that the article was incoming and needed a rapid edit...
Show threadeko_dot_swfDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Mike, did you see the Bellingcat geolocation of the vague video Elon used as pretense?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@ekozie no?
Show threadeko_dot_swfDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1603454821700452365 https://twitter.com/eriz35/status/1603465763393835021
Eliot Higgins on Twitter

“Bellingcat Discord member Sepulco geolocated the video Elon Musk posted overnight, claiming to show a stalker, which he used to justify the banning of accounts that tracked flights. It's at 34.116175,-118.160635, not close to any airports. https://t.co/H4ibUozDKV”

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Show threadElizabeth K  💦🌲🔥🌏Dec 16, 2022

@mmasnick

Twitter also banned Aaron Rupar and IGD_News today.

Show threadwilliam.maggosDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick

article says defederated. FYI

Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@wjmaggos oops. fixed
Show threadAmersDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick did you see aaron rupar suspended 🙄
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@Amers yup. crazy.
Show threadAmersDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick non-sequitor, fubotv was hacked yesterday, apparently.
Show threadCorey DavisDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick this is like one of those celebrity obits that you wrote weeks ago and just needed to tweak once it happened, isn’t it? 😉
Show threadJoyographicDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Streisand effect
Show threadWiredfire Dec 16, 2022
@mmasnick A good read. Thoughtful summary without sensationalism. Truly wild what's going on. Each time Space Karen does something that has me thinking "that's the final nail" he busts out another whole box of them and a big old hammer to get busy with!
Show threadFinnley DolfinDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick

ReportFraud.ftc.gov

To file a report about fraud, scams, and bad business practices including anti-competitive and anti-trust behavior. ... just saying.

Show threadMBDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Now you need to write on him suspending Aaron Rupar.
Show threadRobin  Dec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Curious if twitter would let you point out you can find the information Sweeney shares on the FAA website?
Show threadLyonsCODec 16, 2022
@mmasnick free speech "just watch what you say!"
Show threadMike KanakosDec 16, 2022
[email protected] Welcome to Mastodon! The water is much nicer over here. I think you will like it. #powershell
Show threadDan YorkDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick Great article! But I'm going with the "he's nervous" thinking because I just discovered that... ** I can't tweet a *link* to my Mastodon account! **

I just tried... and got the message that "something went wrong".

And then the message:

"We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful."

Um.. mastodon.social is only "potentially harmful" to Twitter's user count! 🤣

Show threadAntone JohnsonDec 16, 2022
@danyork @mmasnick Got this warning today. Assumed it was triggered by the @elonjet link:
Show threadWolf LawyerDec 16, 2022

@danyork @mmasnick I tried to add my Mastodon profile to my twitter bio before I left.

It’s malware apparently.

Show threadSpencer DaileyDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick wut, i thought this was a joke, but it's real. wooow
Show threadjdeckedDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick pass the link through a URL shortener that's not too popular, e.g. shorturl.at. People will still get a "this link might be dangerous" interstitial when they click on it, but they can bypass it & the link posts. (I found out through trial & error.)
Show threadjoe•iuculano Dec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick yeah, the Elongated Muskrat has labeled #Mastodon as malware
Show threadMark 🖖Dec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick a leading . also seems to work for most instances
Show threadPreshit DeorukhkarDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick You can’t even update your profile now if you already had a link in the bio before the ban went into place.
Show threadSiegePerilousDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick I managed to get mine on but after reading your toot, just checked and it’s still there. I’ve locked down my account and about to empty all its content.. I’ve really enjoyed all my encounters there but am done swimming in the cess pit that is Elon Musk (I love how auto text changes him to ‘melon’)
Show threadkaukamieliDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer
This kind of shit sounds like something they should get in trouble over. :D
@danyork @mmasnick
Show threadkaukamieliDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer
@EC_Commissioner_Breton
Hi Mr. Breton. This is how Musk is handling freedom of speech. :) Can't tell people your mastodon account or recommend a server anymore.
@danyork @mmasnick
Show threadOblomovDec 16, 2022
@thewolflawyer @danyork @mmasnick try putting the Fediverse handle as your location, it might be harder to lock down and be still detectable by the Twitter migration tools
Show threadDan YorkDec 16, 2022

@oblomov @thewolflawyer @mmasnick Oh, yes, I did that a number of weeks ago to help the various Twitter migration tools.

I was just *also* tweeting about it again yesterday with the current chaos.

Show threadRay Ryan (he/him)Dec 16, 2022
@danyork @mmasnick Try pasting it in your profile. You'll be blocked and scolded about malware.
Show threadthroAUDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick the more he does this sort of shit, the faster the twitter fall will accelerate.
Show threadSteve SmithDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick Links to hachyderm.io are being marked "potentially harmful" too.
Show threadtoxtethogradyDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick He's also dropped his Mastodon instance, now that he's seen he can't just troll and not be trolled...
Show threadPhil RobertsonDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick

Leaving Twitter now a must - full argument here:

https://robertsonp.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-twitter-quitter

In Defense of the Twitter Quitter

You don’t need to stay on Twitter and ‘fight’

Phil's Takes
Show threadNancyDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick if you want “Hypocrisy, Part 2” talk to some of the folks who were on Spaces tonight when Musk jumped in. Here are just a few.
Show threadrheaplexDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick @andrea replaced by?
Show threadLeRoy WesterlingDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick this has to be an anticompetitive abuse of market power that opens Twitter and Musk up to legal action?
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@LeRoyWesterling anticompetition law is structured around antitrust. And I think you'd be hard pressed to declare Twitter a monopoly...
Show threadLeRoy WesterlingDec 16, 2022
@mmasnick IBM wasn’t a monopoly, strictly speaking. But 13 years of litigation altered their behavior…
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@LeRoyWesterling uh, IBM was WAY more of a monopolist than Twitter is.
Show threadLeRoy WesterlingDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick “If regulators could prove Twitter intentionally used the link blocking to preserve a form of market dominance and to keep a potential rival at bay, then they might have a case, legal experts say.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html

Show threadLeRoy WesterlingDec 16, 2022

@mmasnick “a dominant firm that’s said to have “market power” can potentially violate antitrust law if they refuse to deal with other parties.

This notion of a “duty to deal” is likely the most relevant to this situation, according to Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director at the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former FTC antitrust official.”

Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022
@LeRoyWesterling yeah. i disagree and think those "legal experts" are doing some wishful thinking. chances of twitter being declared dominant are slim to none with today's judiciary.