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The InterceptStatement from The Intercept on Twitter's suspension of @micahflee and other journalists.
Olm-e@theintercept @micahflee as suggested elsewhere : The Intercept would be wise to have it's own mastodon (and maybe peertube/pixelfed/else) instance so it would need everyone else to de-federate to silence it ... [edit : ] that's one way to build a public space by bringing a piece of it all together ;)
Rora Borealis@olm_e @theintercept @micahflee All of the major news outlets should set one up for just this reason. Automatic verification, if they only allow their own writers.
Anthony Ross
Laura@theintercept @micahflee And THAT is how all media outlets should have responded, not kowtowing to Musk's delicate little ego.
Lesley Carhart 
@theintercept @micahflee a much finer response than NBCs.
M. Verant@theintercept @micahflee I'm mystified that so many major journalists are responding to this by demanding to have their twitter accounts restored.
That is not a solution. They can still be shadow banned, harassed, or muzzled at Musk's whim.
Reporters should LEAVE TWITTER. Posting on twitter is giving your content free to an abusive owner to monetize or censor as he chooses.
-rb@micahflee @mverant @theintercept you’re absolutely right… but the business types probably understand that they’ve invested corporate money in their Twitter presence, and switching platforms is abandoning that money.
That said, I agree with you, and suggest the adage, “don’t throw good money after bad”. In other words, they should set up their own mastodon server. I mean they have their own email server already.
@dashrb @micahflee @theintercept Yup, I'm sure they feel trapped both due to business concerns and sunk effort. It was an emotional leap for me to decide I was done with twitter after years of gradually building a following.
But as others have noted: my Mastodon following is 1/5 the size and I get 10x the responses. The big twitter follower numbers are an illusion when user's feeds are prioritized for monetization.
Hunter Perrin@theintercept @micahflee You can and should own your own Mastodon instance. My company offers managed instances, if you’re interested.
Comfortably Numb@theintercept Counterpoint: the rest of the Intercept should just leave that hellhole.
Cassandrich@theintercept @micahflee Compare this with NBC's embarrassingly bad response.
Dispatchula@theintercept @micahflee Nationalize Twitter, baybeeeee
Mari@theintercept move out of twitter to mastodon
Patrick Rizzo@theintercept @micahflee Yet, NBC suspends Ben Collins. 😠
Acronym Required
KarynDocLike Mastodon!
Phil RobertsonIt is now a must to leave #twitter :
https://robertsonp.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-twitter-quitter
Martin Vermeer (not Jesus)@theintercept @micahflee Refreshing exception to 'let us back in! Let us back in!'
Ricardo D'Aguiar
Mark SteadmanHi. I’d like to read this too. Remember that a picture of words is not the same as text. Please use alt text if you wan to post screen grabs. It’s easy to do and it’s Masto etiquette. Thanks.
Coyote Surfing 🎸🎡 🌊Imaging being so deranged & insane you pay $44 Billion to try to win arguments on the internet
LOL, what a kook
Jon A. Solworth@theintercept @micahflee not publicly owned but distributed and non-profit.
Kate Myers[alt text 1/2]
Elon Musk’s suspension of journalists first and foremost exposes how fragile our public discourse is when the main platforms for congregating online are subject to the whim of billionaires.
Intercept journalist Micah Lee, who was suspended for linking to an account that tracks Elon Musk’s jet using publicly available information, has been reporting critically on Musk’s Twitter takeover for the last month, and we are proud of his work.
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While it would be great for his account to be reinstated, it would be even better if the spaces for discourse were publicly owned.
WrathofJan 🌞🌻🌎🖖
SylviaHey @theintercept, I can't help but notice that even though one of your journalists (@micahflee) is still banned from Twitter and you here publicly state how "the spaces for discourse [should be] publicly owned", the "Join the conversation" button on the bottom of every article on your website is still a link to Twitter.
Are there any plans on changing this to not promote an abusive platform used by Musk to silence critics as strongly? It feels odd to actively promote a system you criticize.