Elon Musk censors the press - Elon Musk is no free speech warrior. #cnn

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/musk-censors-press/index.html

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

“New electoral boundaries coming in next year give the Conservatives a “materially” better chance of clinging on to power”

Banning protests, suppressing votes, undermining the rule of law, threatening human rights … what’s a little gerrymandering to this rotten Government?

#UKPolitics #Gerrymandering #Authoritarianism

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/electoral-boundary-shake-up-will-benefit-conservatives-analysis-suggests-7s9bn0lds

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

RT @[email protected]

#Brexit #TradeDeals #EU

Excellent analysis of the impact of Brexit on the UK economy by Ben Chu on #Newsnight, putting the new trade deals the government has signed in context with what we’ve lost by leaving the EU single market and customs union.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iamdavidbeckett/status/1596285963948675072

Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website, according to Media Matters for America

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk

#TwitterMigration

RT @[email protected]

Hunt claims this morning that we “voted to change our trading relationship with the EU - that was a decision the whole country made”. Except we didn’t - the Leave campaign promised the opposite in 2016, saying we’d have “full access to the European market”.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NicholasTyrone/status/1596056345098465280