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Re:Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links by bee_rider on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:20AM (#34016351)
Is it anti-trust? It seems blatantly anticompetitive but I’m curious what specific law they seem to be breaking (so I can add it to my anti-Twitter complaining heap).
Re:Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links by rvz on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:36PM (#34019105)
> Is it anti-trust?

No it is not. Twitter does not have a monopoly on social media.

> It seems blatantly anticompetitive but I’m curious what specific law they seem to be breaking (so I can add it to my anti-Twitter complaining heap).

None. They have done it in the past [0] and no-one complained apart from techies here getting emotional about it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31607941

Re:Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links by xg15 on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:07PM (#34023563)
Did anyone except techies actually know about it?