John PanzerDec 17, 2022

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/elon-tries-badly-to-defend-the-banning-of-journalists-as-twitter-starts-blocking-links-mentions-of-mastodon/

Thank you @mmasnick for doing the definitive first draft of the last 48 hours. This destroys any pretense Elon (and Jason) have of intellectual consistency. Their only refuge is to lie and deflect. It’s all here in black and white.

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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Show threadMark VosDec 17, 2022
@jpanzer @mmasnick Great article. If it were me, I'd take the emotion out of it, make it more clinical, and drop the swearing. I think it would make it more potent. Still, excellent article. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Show threadMike Masnick ✅
@markvos @jpanzer sometimes that's appropriate, and sometimes it's appropriate to express emotion the way I do. I stand by the way the article was written.
Dec 17, 2022 at 6:47amWeb
Show threadMark VosDec 17, 2022
@mmasnick @jpanzer sure. As I said,
I thank you for the great article. I also said “if it were me…”. You're not me and you’ve written it the way you wish to express it. Thanks again for writing it. I’m most certainly not having a go at you.