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New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ @jeremybmerrill
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How a news organization can respond to Twitter, rather than continue to pour resources, free content and ad dollars into it after their reporter gets banned https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
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  @drewharwell LOVE IT! Finally a CEO with balls :mastodondance: Elon Musk's excuse for why he blocked Substack "makes no sense on multiple levels" and "is so garbled [it's] hard to even call it wrong" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502684 h/t @caseynewton
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 @drewharwell @caseynewton Ah, so you’re one of those who thinks Elmo is a mentally unimpaired human being? How quaint! 🙂  @drewharwell @caseynewton Blocking Substack was wrong. Seemed a lot easier to call than predicted. How scared is Elon Musk of actual competition? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/07/twitter-substack-taibbi-musk-split/ Twitter did the same thing with Mastodon in December, then suspended journalists like me who pointed that out https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blocking-mastodon-links-elon-musk-elonjet New: TikTok banned Enes Kanter Freedom, former NBA player critical of China, for 12 days and unbanned him yesterday, when its CEO was in D.C. Company blames U.S. moderator error but won't give details of how it happened https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/24/enes-kanter-freedom-nba-tiktok-ban/
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@drewharwell did we figure out how msnbc canceled The Phil Donahue show, one of its highest rated shows, because he was critical of the Iraq war? "We’ve confirmed that Irwin has access to user DMs as part of her position. Given the way the company has handled the Twitter Files, multiple former employees told us that DMs are no longer secure, and have discouraged us from using them for any remotely sensitive communication." https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter @caseynewton @zoeschiffer @drewharwell @caseynewton @zoeschiffer People might consider what they are typing into #chatGPT. Are you handing over sensitive intel as you ask the AI to wordsmith it? Are you handing over IP as you optimize the code for that game-changing new feature?
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 @drewharwell Disturbing. Luckily, it works well only if you read a book out loud and donated the recording to #LibriVox. @drewharwell At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus |
@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill A real free speech absolutist? Or a petulant toddler of a dictator?
@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill this behavior is the same as CCP 😂
@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill He’s a controller but he won’t win. Money isn’t everything. Everyone must support sources and sites that he doesn’t control. We have to preserve sources of accurate information and news distribution that is true and uncompromised.