Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by int_19h on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:46PM (#34009101)

Pre-Musk Twitter didn't specifically try to present itself as a bastion of free speech.

On top of that, in case of this particular account, Musk specifically said that it would be allowed on the platform per his understanding of free speech.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by eggy on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:15AM (#34012502)

Really? Jack Dorsey 2015 said it and many times after [1].

Twitter only censored the oldest continually published newspaper in America during an election about the Hunter Biden laptop.

  [1]  https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003891153108997

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by arrrg on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:48AM (#34015064)

For a day, for something that was nominally outside their TOS, which lead to strong internal tensions and in the end also was a complete nothingburger that didn’t matter at all.

This, to me, clearly seems to be a small mistake with no material negative impact on the world. Shit happens.

Elon is consistently and repeatedly making far worse mistakes.

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