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Re:Mastodon's Twitter account has been suspended by fire on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:46PM (#34007490)
It looks like they may have tweeted something about the elonjet account that still exists on mastodon, and were suspended under the new version / enforcement of Twitter's doxxing rules.
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Re:Mastodon's Twitter account has been suspended by quantified on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:52PM (#34007550)
How many layers of soft links does it take before they can't detect you? If you linked to a Bloomberg article that linked to an elonjet, would that run afoul?
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Re:Mastodon's Twitter account has been suspended by fire on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:02PM (#34007636)
right? Does linking to reddit qualify since there's a subreddit for elonjet as well?
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Re:Mastodon's Twitter account has been suspended by ifvictr on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:11PM (#34007706)
Confirmed. The last snapshot in the Wayback Machine shows that they tweeted a link to @ElonJet on Mastodon before being suspended: http://web.archive.org/web/20221215173935/https://twitter.co...

Part of me wonders if this was an intentional move on Mastodon’s part to make it look like Elon is silencing competitors.

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Re:Mastodon's Twitter account has been suspended by anigbrowl on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:16PM (#34007743)
This is increasingly absurd, but I see Twitter has also banned the official ADS-B account and antifascist website It's Going Down (which is mostly polemic op-eds and reports about political demonstrations in the US and Europe, and theoretically well within Twitter's TOS).
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