In a Twitter space hosted by Oz Katerji, a British-Lebanese reporter based in Ukraine and NAFO ally.
3 speakers show the effects of Musk's idiocy.
- A rescuer said Twitter communication saved 1000s of lives from natural disasters. The new limits render it useless.
- An Afghan said the Taliban bought masses of blue-check accounts, where they celebrate suicide bombings around the world.
- A Nigerian journalist can no longer use Twitter to bypass state censorship.
For Musk, it's just a game.
@alcaldood I was listening. The Nigerian was David Hundeyin, and one of his anecdotes was how he'd discovered the then President elect had marked on his campaign form that he didn't have another citizenship. But Hundeyin discovered that he did in fact have another passport and was a dual citizen. This is important because that's illegal there.
So Hundeyin published this on Twitter. The tweet had millions of views. But Twitter suspended him for posting private info.
@alcaldood Even though the man was president elect.
Hundeyin appealed. But Twitter denied the appeal and forced him to delete the tweet.
Then the Nigerian courts got involved and used a screenshot of his tweet as evidence in part of the case.
He used this as an example of how Elon is helping government officials engage in criminal activity and hide it.
EDIT: typo and minor fixes for clarity.
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