Who is Taylor Lorenz and why should we care?

She's a technology columnist for the Washington Post, suspended this evening from Twitter apparently for asking Musk to comment on a story involving Musk. Musk is demonstrating that he can extort censorship from the media with the ban hammer. Taylor was targeted to be an example. Other journalists are put on notice it's not them...this time, and reminded to toe the line. This is about press freedom. That's why we all should care.

#twittermigration

@mastodonmigration
Antics like these are the reason why I am moving to mastodon and specifically to a EU-hosted server. I don't want civil discourse to be held hostage by a touchy, puerile, authoritarian narcissist who has too much power over who can say what, and also happens to be a right wing extremist.