Dylan MartinDec 16, 2022
As @mmasnick points out, it's crazy that in a matter of two weeks Elon Musk went from proudly revealing purportedly damning internal Twitter discussions about blocking links to a news article about Hunter Biden's laptop to banning users who posted publicly available information (flight data) and blocking users from posting links to a competing service. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/elon-tries-badly-to-defend-the-banning-of-journalists-as-twitter-starts-blocking-links-mentions-of-mastodon/
Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme cou…

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@dylanljmartin @mmasnick Anyone can track his plane on any plane tracker app with only his plane id. File it on their saved list.
It must be terrifying that his child x had been followed some maybe crazy. But to blindly lash out at so many people is a very strange way to process it.
To target the press is a huge error, because no matter which side of the press you are on, no one will tolerate that. And the general tone from the press is suddenly very unfavourable.
Dec 16, 2022 at 9:47pmWeb