Trevor Smith

@mrtsmith81
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As I wrote Friday, Twitter's banning of links to competing social platforms *could* be perceived as anticompetitive, according to antitrust experts including Bill Baer, the former DOJ and FTC antitrust chief in two US administrations. But it isn't exactly cut and dry, they tell me.

The tricky thing is first proving that Twitter has market power. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html

Watching this all unfold it’s like a mix of a Howard Hughes biopic and the Truman Show. You get to the see the breakdown unfold on camera, in real time. He is quite literally live tweeting it.

All DPRK journalists have full freedom to criticize Western billionaires, without fear of reprisals

#elonmusk #twitter

I'm still furious about this. I assure you that the FBI still has agents investigating crimes against children. You know what institution has, according to all reports, significantly undermined its ability to counter sexual violence against kids in the last few months? It's Twitter!!!

Laughing at this is why I’m not getting into heaven if it exists

RT @[email protected]

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://bit.ly/3Pt3eKW

Our Annual Year: Best Of April

The Onion
5. I said the bigger question is whether WE WANT TO LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHERE POWERFUL PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO LIE AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH IMPUNITY AND THEN USE THESE LIES TO JUSTIFY OTHERWISE INDEFENSIBLE ACTIONS
Musk has begun banning journalists who have criticized him from Twitter including WaPo’s Drew Harwell, NYT’s Ryan Mac, and CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan. My whole timeline is glitched out and people continue to report my tweets so I’m worried I’ll be banned soon too! #twitter #musk #twittermigration #twitterexodus #tech #news #technews #technology #elon
Yes, my Twitter account was permanently suspended

Here's what happened.

Public Notice
So uh good luck to the CNN/WaPo/NYT devs tasked with setting up mastodon servers tomorrow I suppose
Elon Musk now seems to just be purging journalists from Twitter without explanation. Absolutely bonkers, total clown show.