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Mike Masnick ✅Dec 16, 2022

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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Dan York Dec 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! 🤣

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Wolf Lawyer Dec 16, 2022

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

It’s malware apparently.

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Preshit Deorukhkar

@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.