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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by TheHappyOddish on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:38AM (#34013461)
I believe that ADS-B Exhange (like the suspended journalists) linked to ElonJet's Mastodon account. This is consistent with the policy - even if that policy isn't agreeable - and doesn't seem to indicate that publishing public radio data is banned.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by lambic2 on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:52PM (#34020198)
Is there any evidence/source that shows the suspended journalists actually linked ElonJet's Mastodon account? I thought they only mentioned ElonJet's Twitter handle.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by TheHappyOddish on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:38PM (#34022185)
That's what I've read, ironically on Twitter. The JoinMastodon account definitely did.

This article from TC confirms:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodo...

Also I get journalists are feeling threatened, but it's a shame to see such a clear emotionally charged article from TC, I used to trust them for unbiased tech reporting.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by lambic2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:01AM (#34028269)
I'm curious, can you point me to a sentence that you find "emotionally charged"? I went over every sentence and every one just states some facts. I'm not seeing the emotionally charged part.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by lambic2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:57PM (#34030303)
The article confirms that Elon suspends link to Mastodons, but doesn't say anything about the journalists posting links to the Mastodon account for ElonJen.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by TheHappyOddish on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:50PM (#34059555)
Apologies, the TC article states why the JoinMastodon account was suspended:

> Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on its own service, according to archives.

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