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>has made way for free-speech

Here’s just a few of the people (in these cases journalists) that Elon has banned. It’s not hard to find other examples of censorship either. That’s his right, he owns all of it, but he lied about ideals of free speech. If it’s speech he doesn’t like, he kills it:

Ryan Mac

Drew Harwell

Micah Lee

Matt Binder

Aaron Rupar

Donie O’Sullivan

Tony Webster

EDIT: these bans were related to reporting on the elonjet tracking account that was banned. He didn’t just ban the account he didn’t like, he banned the accounts of journalists who talked about that.

>>ineeda+(OP)
For posterity, those journalists were banned (unbanned a few months later) for just reporting on ElonJet, who used publicly available FAA data to track Elon's jet. Elon called it doxxing. And also temporarily banned links to Mastodon just to prevent people from accessing ElonJet that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet

>>minima+h1
Good point, they were all related as bans resulting from reporting or tweeting about the elonjet ban. I edited my comment accordingly since it’s important context to know the ones I mentioned were all related to a single event (though he’s silenced others as well for different reasons too)

>>ineeda+(OP)
More recently he banned Aaron Greenspan, founder of Plainsite, and prominent Elon Musk critic. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/15/elon-musk-led-twitter-suspen...

>>ineeda+(OP)
Elonjet was bait by people with an axe to grind and a chip on their shoulder, and if this isn't blindingly obvious, I have a bridge to sell you.

There is no doubt that, after firing Vijaya Gadde (sp?), the corporate focus has shifted away from censoring every single tweet, and more towards letting people say what they want. This does not mean every single tweet is left up, or that annoying Elon isn't a catastrophically stupid thing for journalists to do.

Do you dispute this?

>>ineeda+G2
How embarrassing, I have never heard of those people! Here are some journalists or whistleblowers I have heard of:

- Daniel Ellsberg - Julian Assange - Glenn Greenwald - Seymour Hirsch - Chelsea Manning

>>uncone+991
> There is no doubt that [...] the corporate focus has shifted away from censoring every single tweet

It is absolutely unbelievable that anyone could say this when every Tweet is currently censored to non-members.

I've traditionally considered the Dorsey administration to be the worse steward, but this is an insane take to steelman considering how self-conscious the past few months of banning has gotten.