Twitter Is Banning Prominent Journalists Criticizing Elon Musk

by infrawhisperson 12/16/22, 1:14 AMwith 36 comments
by ClassicOrginon 12/16/22, 1:38 AM

Appears to be about 7 journalists so far [1]. Really does feel like it’s actually going to collapse at this point.

[1] https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/16035518847484600...

by grappleron 12/16/22, 3:15 AM

The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover.

  https://the-federation.info/
People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wrong, but the relationship is that mastodon has proven itself the breakout killer app of the fediverse. Click around a bit and you'll find other types of instances like Pleroma, PeerTube, etc.

Basically it's a set of open standards (in particular ActivityPub) developed to do a decentralized version of what twitter and similar social apps do. And no lock-in to a commercial platform or app or protocol.

by DiNovion 12/16/22, 2:06 AM

it appears these journalists reported that the LAPD has no police report around the alleged stalking incident at the los angeles airport, which i assume he didn’t want to trend

by u320on 12/16/22, 1:20 AM

"Free speech"

by pinewurston 12/16/22, 1:23 AM

https://archive.ph/ID6Ta

by Trouble_007on 12/16/22, 1:27 AM

One wonders if Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon are working on a replacement platform?

by abirchon 12/16/22, 1:19 AM

Twitter is so sad. It was so simple early on, then became complicated with misinformation, and now is a raging dumpster fire.

by xqcgrek2on 12/16/22, 1:41 AM

Why should journalists be immune from bans if they break the rules?