Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by FormerBandmate on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:12PM (#34009435)

He's still giving Ukraine Starlink for free. He'd be an utterly horrible Russian asset

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by selcuka on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:22PM (#34009554)

> He's still giving Ukraine Starlink for free

Paid for (at least partially) by the U.S. government [1]. You can't easily say "no" to your own government even if you are a foreign asset.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-...

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by mannerheim on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:30PM (#34009658)

GP didn't say which foreign asset.

The Saudis are major shareholders in Twitter, although personally I doubt they're telling Musk what to do so much as being content to let him run it into the ground; it's a win for them whether Twitter under Musk succeeds or fails.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by niyikiza on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:50PM (#34009860)

I don't actually even remotely believe that he is a foreign government asset, but I don't think that's a good argument: giving Starlink to Ukraine is exactly one of the things that a Russian asset would do.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by yks on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:10AM (#34010628)

All Ukrainians I know are paying for Starlinks and the fee have been recently increased.

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