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If you thought Musk would calm down after a week of turmoil, you're wrong.
New York Times reporter Ryan Mac and Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell were among the journalists who were removed from the site.
"Remember that night when half of Tweeps got laid off and everyone just stared at Slack until their accounts got nuked?" said Platformer'sCaseyNewton. It's like that for reporters.
Some of the suspensions may have been related to the saga of the private jet that was used by Musk. The account annoyed Musk so much that he tried to pay Sweeney to shut it down. There was a rumor before the deal got serious that Musk wanted to revenge Sweeney by buying a large amount of the company's stock.
The account that was tracking the billionaire's jet was banned by the social media company. Musk said that any accounts that swapped real-time location info was against the rules.
He said that he meant that which matches the law. I don't want censorship that goes beyond the law.
The hypocrisy on behalf of Musk is astounding.
Many people pointed out at the time that that vision was bound to run into serious problems and never worked out for a functional social platform. Most people think it's fine for a company to not allow a lot of stuff because it's morally reprehensible.
Musk was forced to change his mind when his on-again-off-again friend West started posting Nazi imagery on his account. Musk suspended the musician's account even though his posts were widely reviled.
It is not to say that Musk has backed down from his position on free speech. Donald Trump was banned from the platform after he used it to whip up a mob that attacked the US Capitol in January of 2021.
If you're following this torrent of dumpster juice so far, tonight, the situation got worse when the Mastodon account posted a link to Sweeney's account on their account. Musk's rule against posting real-time information led to the suspension of Mastodon's account. The accounts of reporters including Harwell started disappearing as soon as they started posting a picture of the Mastodon post that looks like it has been suspended.
It's not clear if everyone who's been suspended even posted the offending screen shot. It's possible that Musk and his friends are so angry that they're going to kill anyone they don't like.
There are clues emerging. Ryan Mac, the New York Times reporter who was temporarily suspended from the site, came out with a new account to clarify that he had been permanently banned from the site.
Musk has a bad relationship with Mac. During Musk's feud with a cave diver attempting to rescue Thai children trapped in a cave, the billionaire sent Mac an email in which he asked that his remarks be kept out of the public eye. Mac published the email's contents despite not agreeing to those terms.
Critics have pointed out that "doxxing real-time location info" technically means that going to a concert and posting the name of the musician on social media would be grounds for suspension. Is Futurism going to be suspended for publishing this post, even though we didn't link or strace the offending post? Jesus takes the wheel!
We are just waiting to see what happens. Musk's tenuous and retroactive explanation for the suspensions is already in poor faith; what's really going on is that he's lashing out in any way he can because he's angry that people are critical of his acquisition of the micro-blogging site. He said he loved Barbara Streisand.
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Video shows large crowd booing Musk off stage.
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