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Elon Musk's X Suspends Prominent Journalists and Influencers

https://themessenger.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-banned

by Zaheer • 3 years ago

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gnabgib• 3 years ago

Discussion here: "X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation"[0] (101 points, 67 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38927699

fader• 3 years ago

The most interesting bit to me:

He also observed that Texas, where he lives, has a law on the books that prohibits social media companies from banning users based on their political viewpoints.
"I would certainly be interested in hearing from people who are First Amendment lawyers about how that might apply in a situation if they don't provide some legitimate and well documented reason for my suspension," he said.

I doubt this goes anywhere but it would be an interesting test of this law.

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