Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalists-hnk-intl/index.html

by Octokiddie • 4 years ago

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salad-fan4• 4 years ago

Phony Stark has lost it.

WantonQuantum• 4 years ago

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

kevinmrose• 4 years ago

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

jfengel• 4 years ago

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.

stjohnswarts• 4 years ago

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

karmakaze• 4 years ago

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.

yucky3• 4 years ago

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

salad-fan4• 4 years ago

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).

yucky3• 4 years ago

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.

Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists

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