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Drew HarwellThis is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything until I delete it.
SDL@drewharwell Sorry you're going thru this. Musk is a rightist using Twitter to promote rightism and an egomaniac using Twitter to promote himself -- shit fucking sucks.
Leanne@drewharwell
It won't end there. He's going to find more things to use against anyone who irks him.
It won't end there. He's going to find more things to use against anyone who irks him.
US Saved 2020!@Laighe @drewharwell Yes! While I certainly don’t have my career in this fight, like Drew (meaning that it’s easy for me to suggest this), this does feel a lot like the social media version of Neville Chamberlain and “peace for our time.”
OSCrane@drewharwell I'm curious about this warning screen. I've had multiple Twitter accounts, but I've never had this voluntary removal screen come up. Can anybody confirm if this is a pre-Elmo feature or a post-Elmo one? This stinks of fascistic behavior training and shaming.
Ophelia@OSCrane @drewharwell I have seen it in the past used to request people remove hate speech (Jordan Peterson specifically)
@Natttttt @drewharwell Interesting. Removing the context of silencing journalists, the screen itself is written VERY condescendingly.
Tech&Tubas 
@OSCrane @drewharwell I've seen that at least 2 months ago, I think before he took over.
@techtubas @drewharwell Wait, it's been less than two months...? Oh god, it's 2020 all over again...
@OSCrane @drewharwell apparently October 28 ish? I remember seeing this screen early October so before him. But yeah feels longer, I also may be wrong I just googled.
Justin@OSCrane @drewharwell yes voluntary removal existed before. Babylonbee wasn't perma banned until musk. They could have restarted anytime if they removed their transphobic tweet. They chose not to put of their "principles". I hope Drew you can do the same (except in your case honourable thing) and leave the tweet up. But I understand if you can't. 😭
Tim Bond@OSCrane @drewharwell I got a very similar message on JAN 6, 2021, when I tweeted a message to the White House press secretary suggesting she eat excrement and cease living.
PIUS
Jim Bohannon@OSCrane @drewharwell I had a similar screen posted to my account a while back. I responded to somebody joking about the Paul Pelosi attack with the comment "She wouldn't think it was so funny if it was her husband getting attacked with a hammer.".
The note attached was that I was promoting violence when I was actually criticizing somebody else for laughing off the violence.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@JimboSF @OSCrane @drewharwell similar experience with a similar kind of comment. Attempts to appeal were rejected, I came to the conclusion their adjudicators were not too familiar with English. The gap between suggesting someone have some empathy for a violent act against another vs. making an actual personal threat of violence is a pretty large one - enough to drive a bus through.
I snapshoted the offending post, deleted it, and then posted the image and the Twitter complaint history.
Ursula 🏴@OSCrane @drewharwell I have definitely seen this screen before
Doug Pasnak@OSCrane @drewharwell it was fairly common for years. But even before Elon, they started to wield the ban hammer more willingly, and forgoe warnings/options like this.
John Slyfield@OSCrane @drewharwell as far as the screen, that's always been there. I know from experience. You can either choose to appeal it (to whom, god?) Or delete it. If you choose to delete it the timer starts before you get full functionality. If you choose to appeal the timer starts after you acknowledge that it's been rejected or if it the appeal is successful then your account is reinstated with the questionable tweet in place.
IronyisDead@OSCrane @drewharwell I had it once. I was commenting about some political freak out and said all of Twitter was self immolating and my account was immediately locked for 12 hours AFTER I deleted the tweet because something, something suicide ideation.
Comrade Weez@OSCrane That's the one they use to demand you delete a post when they think it has violated the ToS, been used for many years. @drewharwell
Wes Mason@OSCrane @drewharwell it's the normal "you're suspended but not like trump" screen, I used to get it for talking about TERFs (because TERFs will actively use the search bar to look for posts to report)
Denise Wu@drewharwell whiplash every 24 hours. Twitter is now becoming even more inconsistent than Elmo.
Ms Chief@drewharwell he need you more than you need him. I wouldn’t comply with his nonsense if I was you. Because it’s just nonsense and there will be something else next week.
Rustled Teapot@drewharwell the argument is that @ -ing elonjet is enough to justify it.
Obviously that account is banned too so...
G. T. Blackwell@drewharwell Seems like tweeting "At the Yankees game with [INSERT FRIEND NAME HERE]!" could easily get someone banned.
Skye@drewharwell delete it and post an update - the suspension of journalists is in the world news because Musknis the new Trump. Everything he does is headlines. The hatred expressed towards ‘legacy press’ by tech bros and their sycophants needs to be reported by people like you
Sasha Fox@drewharwell Don't delete it. Don't accept their lies about what happened.
Leftwardswing@drewharwell Elon Musk is such an over entitled little child. He's in way over his head with Twitter & isn't mature enough.
As someone said, he is a 51 year old 11 year old.
@Alcibiades @drewharwell That sums it up perfectly
Roland Clark@drewharwell I’ve never seen so much hypocrisy…
Riccphoto@drewharwell I’m afraid people will just delete and go back to normal on Twitter, please don’t do that.
Sophie Zhang (张学菲)@drewharwell the linked article was this, right? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks/
My guess is that he referred to the link to ElonJet on IG in the article. Problem is that if you define linking to something that contains a link to the problematic material as problematic, where do you stop? All the interwebs is interconnected
@drewharwell Also, others don't seem to have been banned for tweeting the article. That implies that you're being banned for writing something off-platform, which is... deeply unusual.
@szhang_ds Yes. So the precedent now is that a journalist covering a news story can be banned for even referencing the existence of an account that uses public and legally acquired flight data on an entirely different website.
Two separate points here:
- Ban for linking to something that contains a link to problematic material. Huge potential for abuse. You can now argue for banning e.g. Google, since it can link to a lot of problematic material incl. ElonJet.
- Others don't seem to be banned for linking to your article. Implies you were singled out as the article author.
Unclear why Linette Lopez was banned but may also be for this reason.
Bans for activity off-site are highly unusual and typically reserved for what FB calls "dangerous organizations" - i.e. Al Qaeda/ISIS/etc. are banned regardless of what they try to post. This aspect seems the most dangerous because the rest only affects Twitter as a platform, but this induces people to censor themselves off Twitter as well for fear of being banned.
Dave DiBona@szhang_ds @drewharwell She has been writing critically of Tesla for a while now....so she hurt his image and feelings
@drewharwell Actually, you seem to have posted ElonJet links on TruthSocial/IG on Twitter, so Elon seems actually self-consistent here in this specific case of "you being banned." Though plenty of others who did it weren't banned.
Mark McClelland@drewharwell Such are the whims of a petulant dictator. So glad I deleted my account and moved here.
Mike Masnick ✅@drewharwell lol. considering you cite ME as the source, how did I not get banned?
@mmasnick You should be third-party turbo-banned for even acknowledging the account exists.
truceburner 
@drewharwell @mmasnick Turbo-banning is $18.99, but you get a badge on the remnants of your profile.
Shaza@mmasnick @drewharwell Double secret probation!
Snarky Mc Snark@mmasnick @drewharwell to important
Miro Collas@drewharwell Sounds like a good idea to just leave twitter. [shrug]
charvaka@drewharwell He is telling you that if you go back on Twitter, you do so at the pleasure of the oligarch. You accept to play Elonball with him, where the rules are what he says the rules are, and they frequently change.
BecEh. @drewharwell's use was fine in this case.
My request is broadened to all #Journalists & #Reporters:
Please use the #LakoffMethod to decenter ALL fascist rhetoric--including Musks' conflation of doxxing w/journalism:
@georgelakoff's method, the "Truth Sandwich":
1. State the facts.
2. State the lie.
3. Restate the facts.
@jayrosen_nyu wrote up his advice re how to use it back in 2020, I think.
Please use it to stop the normalizing & amplification of Fascist & CF rhetoric & framing.
philtor 🇺🇦🌻@drewharwell don't click it. Twitter is dead. Time to move on.
Reed Mideke@drewharwell It'll live on on the internet archive if you're forced to delete https://web.archive.org/web/20221216002720/https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1603540738926645250 ;)
Kinda suspect they meant to apply it to the second one in the thread, or the one it QTs, with the screenshot of the elonjet IG URL, which is also completely nuts but slightly more connected to the accusation
@drewharwell ROFL, the tweet with the screenshot is still there, because they only made you delete the first in the thread https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1603134066383011841
Drew Harwell on Twitter
“@elonmusk @faizsays @ElonJet @JxckSweeney Here's where it gets really wild. Try to tweet a link to the Musk-jet-tracking account on Instagram. You can't. Twitter blocked it as "potentially harmful." Again, this is *publicly available data*. But it's about something Musk doesn't want people to see https://t.co/sWSaIwrTtH”
Lennart Quispel@drewharwell Why did you delete it?
Niels 
@drewharwell @wongmjane where does that link go to?
Michael Meese 🇪🇺@drewharwell Dear Mr. Harrell, according to the article of the German techwebsite www.golem.de, Elon Musk might have this time a point. Apparently the data isn’t that freely accessible as suggested. For security reasons you can ask the FAA to anonymize your planes ID. To undo this, you apparently have to go through some loops: https://www.golem.de/news/twitter-wie-musks-jet-verfolgt-wird-und-ob-das-eine-gute-idee-ist-2212-170564.html
Bathsheba Blue@drewharwell
You’re doing something here 😉
You’re doing something here 😉
Officer-involved pooping@drewharwell I wonder if even just a screenshot of this would get someone banned over there.. how many layers does this BS cake have?
@drewharwell Why did you delete it?
zeemeermin@drewharwell i wonder if he does the same for gab or gettr.
hopeless wanderer@drewharwell fucking amazing
Thomas A. Fine 
@drewharwell Weird, then, that all facebook URLs are not similarly blocked, given that Facebook also hosts a copy of the account, and links might appear in anyone's postings. Just like Mastodon.
josh avant@drewharwell Don’t ever delete it.
I think if one of the people suspended during this simply… didn’t return from the suspension… that account would end up staying as a shrine to a moment in time that doesn’t age well. And say a lot.
I think if one of the people suspended during this simply… didn’t return from the suspension… that account would end up staying as a shrine to a moment in time that doesn’t age well. And say a lot.