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Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists

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32 pointsOctokiddie12 comments

Interesting alternate(?) universe where by banning professional journalists, Twitter becomes viewed as a place where random people rant and rave to their followers gained via popularity contests.

He truly is falling apart in slow motion on twitter like Kanye did.

Phony Stark has lost it.

Tech bro isn't good at corporate governance. News at 11.

My understanding is this is due to them doxxing which is against their TOS, is that not the case?

It’s because these journalists wrote articles that were critical of Musk. Not to mention that the publications where these articles were published have vastly stronger rules about things like doxxing than Twitter ever did (in part because they’re actually regulated).

Didn't Twitter cite the California law against doxxing (verbatim), and then only publications which violated that have been suspended?

Based on that, it would seem removing the doxxed info and not publishing it in the future would be an easy way to get their accounts reinstated. Or they can just keep yelling into the wind on Mastodon.

It's so hard to have sympathy when the irony of the situation is so fucking thick.

Yes but the articles in question didn’t violate the quoted law. Sharing public information (the location of Phony Stark’s jet) is not doxxing.

Well, that is his home so why wouldn't that be doxxing? He sold his houses.

It’s not doxxing because aircraft locations are a matter of public record. A newspaper or other publication publishing information that’s already public is not a net new disclosure.

I wonder if the same people who are angry about this were angry when the NY Post got their account banned.

Nope. When the Post got banned, they were following a policy, more or less consistently. Now, we don't have a policy. We just have the rather mercurial position of one guy -- a guy who said that this was exactly the opposite of what he was going to do.

It is, of course, his right to. His company, his rules, or lack of rules. And it's everybody else's right to leave.

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