Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
Social networks that do this should lose any safe harbor provisions. Government are so fucking far behind with basic common sense.
i hate banning anyone as much as the next anarcho-dingus but afaik there’s no law against banning whoever you want and i’m not sure there should be one. i don’t know what the answer is, if it isn’t public control of all social media.
maybe some public funded internet services such as defederated twitter and reddit alternatives? completely open and paid for with taxes, in direct competition with their for-profit contemporaries.
Like the BBC mastadon instance social.bbc
Absolutely. You cannot claim safe harbor while banning stuff like this.
We need a big exodus of media then the platform would be dead for sure.
Has this “journalist” been in a coma since twitters purchase? One of the first things done was the removal of ‘elonjet’ and a plethora of elon critics
I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers…
What pains me the most is that idiots still simp for Elon after all of this.
They simp because of this. He is “owning the libs” by being a fragile thin-skinned clown while unbanning actual Nazis.
Anyone surprised by Musky at this point only has themselves to blame.
Yeah what did he expect. It’s not a people’s platform anymore. It’s the owner’s. Better he be off and do his own thing elsewhere. Find better fields!
How is this surreal? Journalists critical of Musk/Twitter have been being banned since he bought it.
Is this journalist really so self involved he thought it was OK they all got nuked as long as he didn’t?
Insert “It’s a private platform. He can do whatever he wants” comment
Most Reddit or Lemmy mods would ban you for critiquing them too.
Mods and owners can get very emotional
I certainly would not ban anyone critiquing me. I take it as feedback rather than a personal attack like the ones you’re referring to.
I bet you fold your socks everyday weirdo
and that is how it should be and which was also my philosophy when I held positions of authority in online communities (I don’t hold any anymore because I no longer have time to spend as much time online as I used to)
That requires quite a bit of idealism and self-reflection which is not a common trait in humans.
Oh yeah? Well your butt smells LIKE A BUTT
I’d say most mods don’t even pay attention to people critiquing them
There’s a chart of things that give people a feeling of power:
Banning someone as a Discord or Reddit mod has to be right up there because nothing else explains their tyrannical fiefdom-like behavior, lmao
(TLDR: A subreddit mod trying to ban a reddit admin):
To provide some relief, the best “no-u” I’ve ever been personally witness to, was one moderator who went on a power trip and mistakenly tried to mute/ban me from discus for some contrived reason, and when he enacted the policy, the group chat policy bot banned him instead – he soon afterwards realized that I was the owner of the partnered organization that was hosting the entire service
If only that could happen to Musky Husky, getting slapped in the face by the revolving door while holding his hall monitor pass
He absolutely can. But that doesn’t make him immune to ridicule and judgement for being a cowardly racist piece of shit.
100% agree. I just find it utterly hypocritical that he proclaimed himself at “a free-speech absolutionist” and cries like a little baby the moment someone says something bad about him.
It’s time for news orgs and journalists to say a) “we’re hosting our content on our own Mastodon server and that will be the source of truth for federated platforms (eventually including Threads and Bluesky)”, b) “we will mirror the content across non-federated social media platforms that support free and fair reporting”.
In other words give Twitter the middle finger and make the content available everywhere.
Musk is only a free speech absolutist for the speech he supports.
But he ABSOLUTELY supports the speech he supports!
Wtf did they expect from 2024 Twitter?
If you ever question whether Eløn is actually a free speech absolutist, we can all point to cases like this.
Quit. Using. Twitter.
As if anyone reading this thread uses Twitter.
You’d be surprised. There’s a ton of people who came to Lemmy due to the Reddit API fiasco and still visit there daily, Twitter addiction is no different.
Person eating shit: THIS TASTES BAD, SOMEBODY SHOULD CHANGE THE TASTE
Quit eating shit.
But all my friends are in the shit restaurant!
I stopped using it before muskrat bought it.
I stop caring after i reported so many bots and a farm started harassing me.
I was on the fence about leaving…I didn’t use it very much to begin with, but it was useful for checking in on bands for whom Twitter was their preferred social media.
But the day that I read that Twitter was considering accepting Lone Skum’'s offer to buy it, I immediately deleted my account. Whether he ended up buying it or not, the fact that they’d even consider his offer told me all I needed to know. Twitter had become such an essential tool for so many oppressed people across the globe that for them to even entertain the idea of selling it to that pompous, no-talent cunt in order to enrich their shareholders was enough to hasten my exit.
That being said, once that sale was made…while I’d have preferred to see $44 billion go to the working class instead of a bunch of wealthy shareholders, I am much happier seeing it split up instead of remaining in the coffers of a bigoted fuck billionaire whose own kid disowned him. Fuck him.
It was enough of a dumpster fire before it got all musky. After it got the preputial gland the edgelords became MOR and there was no arguing past their mechanical circle jerk of atavism.
“But I’ve never had problems with the SS before…”
Louder for those in the back.
O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
“I was very, very reluctant to be a Twitter doomer because it had done so much for me… But it’s really at the point where it doesn’t really work in practical terms. It is not as useful as an object as it used to be. It incentivises lots of extremely negative and hateful speech and has really made that a big kind of calling card of its business for the last year or two… that you can go on there and say anything.”
Fediverse is waiting.
Glad I stopped using Twitter eons ago.
I wouldn’t call it “surreal” at all, I’d call it “completely expected” given who runs that platform
The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
He must have a tiny pp to be that insecure
Elon Musk’s pp? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. Very tiny.
Elon Free Speech Musk himself? Never!
