Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by JohnTHaller on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:10PM (#34009402)

It's not a good rule. It was implemented for the sole reason of preventing people from saying where Elon Musk's private jet is, even though that is publicly available information by law.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by SamBam on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:26PM (#34009605)

And it was forseeable. People were joking that Musk was paying $40B to buy Twitter simply to just down the ElonJet account.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by kennywinker on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:03AM (#34011560)

Which is hilarious because as I recall the account admin asked for something like $50k to shut it down…

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by huhtenberg on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:44AM (#34011913)

And that would've caused an avalanche of copycat accounts, each going after their own 50K.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by iso1631 on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:46AM (#34012304)

You can't stop the signal, but you can slowly dampen it

Of course Musk could have simply flown commercial and bypassed the entire "problem".

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by fragmede on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:05AM (#34012437)

Commercial airplanes don't have doors that go like this, unfortunately.

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