Twitter Is Banning Prominent Journalists Criticizing Elon Musk

[ClassicOrgin]

Appears to be about 7 journalists so far [1]. Really does feel like it’s actually going to collapse at this point.

[1] https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/16035518847484600...

[grappler]

The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover.

  https://the-federation.info/

People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wrong, but the relationship is that mastodon has proven itself the breakout killer app of the fediverse. Click around a bit and you'll find other types of instances like Pleroma, PeerTube, etc.

Basically it's a set of open standards (in particular ActivityPub) developed to do a decentralized version of what twitter and similar social apps do. And no lock-in to a commercial platform or app or protocol.

[DiNovi]

it appears these journalists reported that the LAPD has no police report around the alleged stalking incident at the los angeles airport, which i assume he didn’t want to trend

[andrewinardeer]

Elon tweeted and posted a video about that incident asking for help to identify the perp. Why would he do that if he didn't want it to trend?

[u320]

"Free speech"

[hauget]

The First Amendment of the US Constitution defines free speech as protection from government interference in free expression. Twitter is a corporation, free speech laws don’t apply. It can ban anyone it likes. This is perfectly legal.

[pinewurst]

https://archive.ph/ID6Ta

[Trouble_007]

One wonders if Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon are working on a replacement platform?

[Steltek]

By now, any Google social product is DOA. After Wave/Plus/etc, a new site won't gain significant early adopter attention. They're better off buying an existing thing or spinning up their own improved AP/Masto service, taking a page from the gmail playbook.

[ISL]

Probably not. Twitter is wonderful as a public service/utility, but it is unclear if it will ever be profitable.

I thought Twitter could never die, but if acts like this continue, Twitter's users will slip through Elon's fingers.

[lcnmrn]

Subreply is an alternative, but it is demodded on HN every time it reaches front page.

[prawn]

Google and Meta at least would be crazy if they weren't doing something quietly on the side. Are publicly traded companies allowed to work on a skunkworks-type project available to the public without revealing that officially?

[abirch]

Twitter is so sad. It was so simple early on, then became complicated with misinformation, and now is a raging dumpster fire.

[xqcgrek2]

Why should journalists be immune from bans if they break the rules?

[u320]

What rules have been broken here?

[muglug]

The only rule most of them broke is "don't upset Elon Musk".