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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by zdragnar on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:27AM (#34011219)
That is literally what happened with the Pelosi attacker. He wrongly assumed she would be present (she was definitely not). He absolutely intended her physical harm- and attacked the husband with a hammer in full view of the police.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by WeylandYutani on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:04AM (#34014086)
The Pelosi attacker got motivated by DECADES of Republican hate propaganda. Not responsible journalism speaking truth to power.

The rich and famous cannot have anonymity because you can't be rich and famous being anonymous. Of course the elite wants to have it both ways: report only what I want you to report.

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by JumpinJack_Cash on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:29AM (#34015644)
> because you can't be rich and famous being anonymous

What about Satoshi? And funnily enough it was exactly Musk status circa 2017. A billionaire known only by people following the stock market and tech/auto sector specifically.

He made his own bed ever since the accusation of pedophilia against Vernon Unsworth who was participating in the Thai cave rescue.

The combined wealth of Brin and Page also would land them at #1 in the Forbes list but nobody knows them. So it's possible to a degree, it was never possible for Musk however because he has a deep need to be a primadonna

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by factsarelolz on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:06PM (#34017921)
> The Pelosi attacker got motivated by DECADES of Republican hate propaganda. Not responsible journalism speaking truth to power.

Do you have a citations for this? His son seems to disagree with your depiction of DePePe's political affiliation.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11537665/Son-Paul-P...

> responsible journalism

We haven't seen that in at least a decade.

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by jen20 on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:33AM (#34014318)
Given what Elon has claimed about this, it’s probably not the best defense of his position.
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by emodendroket on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:08AM (#34014590)
We could also say that he was motivated by the same kind of fringe political content that Elon has brought back after it was previously removed. Is there any kind of consistent principle we could use to explain why removing that was illegitimate but this isn’t?