Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.
It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.
This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/
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by @micahflee
Big Journalism mustered a few pathetic protests to Musk's control freakery with reporters' accounts, but maintained business as usual on the birdsite.
In other words, Musk is winning his campaign against freedom of expression that he dislikes.
You'd imagine that the journalism business would take genuine action -- eg leaving Twitter -- to demonstrate a backbone, and help preserve press freedom. You would be wrong, sadly.
@dangillmor @micahflee @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa @tony
I hate to say it (okay no I don't), but what happened to the Internet and what happened to the ethics and principles of the news media are similar, and for the most part, the general public, didn't really do a lot to discourage it from happening. In a lot of ways, in fact, we warmly embraced it as it happened.
But mostly I blame 70s movies for teaching us that news media had ethics and principles other than "selling papers"
Micah Lee
Dan Gillmor
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