RT @[email protected]

if you count out events given infamous nicknames whispered by peasants like "the high court terror" "king's final jig" "the axeman watches" etc. i would contend the last 48 hours have been one of the all time greats for people who appreciate watching rich worms suffer https://twitter.com/lizrhoffman/status/1603858959479099392

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NotABigJerk/status/1603861757746880512

RT @[email protected]

UPDATE: The tweets by @[email protected] this morning, announcing a new policy banning linking to competing websites, have been deleted.

The policy itself was deleted from Twitter’s website.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1604678612191514627

Our publication has a long history with #JohnMastodon

He went to college with our illustrious founder, P.R. O'Publica

I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

This

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12

The speedrun through "every trust and safety problem others have experienced over the last decade but that I don't know anything about" continues.

Up next, adversarial reporting.

I wrote a much longer piece picking apart Musk & friends very, very, very bullshit defense of banning journalists. None of it makes sense.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/elon-tries-badly-to-defend-the-banning-of-journalists-as-twitter-starts-blocking-links-mentions-of-mastodon/