Related: >>37136858
He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, slapped a warning label on NPR implying it was government funded and no more independent than the Global Times or Russia Today.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...
So you could be right and this might be a bug, but your implication that we should give Twitter the benefit of the doubt doesn’t hold up.
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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains - >>37130060 - Aug 2023 (337 comments)
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes - >>37136858 - Aug 2023 (74 comments)
You're probably talking about this HN comment [1], but he was typing in the command wrong, and thus not querying it without a User-Agent (important, as Twitter has known different behaviour with different UAs), and once he got it right - same behaviour [2].
Like, sure, it could be a weird technical glitch. But as of yet, nobody could find a counter-example of a web property Musk didn't have an issue with, where this behaviour was exhibited.
[1]: >>37136776
[2]: >>37139792
I don’t see any apologies for any of the bad actions Twitter has taken since the purchase, and the hypocrisy of doing this while claiming to be a center of free speech is astounding.
Of course Twitter had bias before because every group of people has a bias. But that doesn’t mean that everything they do is wrong or malicious, just because you don’t like them. The real tragedy is letting your own bias blind you to what’s in front of your face.