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Mike Masnick ✅

I've boosted a few others pointing out this article, but I gotta say, I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk bootlicker to effectively off the site and shadowbanned in 48 hours... especially since one of Taibbi's big (misleading and misunderstood) scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering... techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-

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Jorge Stolfi

@lauren @mmasnick

"So sorry, my karma ran over your dogma."
-- ancient ASCII meme wisdom.

Laure

@mmasnick knowing these gaslighters, this is all just more pr.

Agora

@LaureM @mmasnick yup! Musk published his DMs with Taibbi

Anathema Device

@mmasnick I've blocked the house trolls, but I hope they appreciate the way you keep them healthy by forcing them to do daily intensive calisthenics trying to align their man god's behaviour with their man god's claimed ethics :)

Killick

@KeithDJohnson @mmasnick , I noticed the author still has a Twitter link at the bottom of the article. And no masto link.

Mike Masnick ✅

@killick @KeithDJohnson yeah, we're working on it. But some things have gotten in the way. I'm here.

PoGo Queen

@mmasnick I have never read something that’s behind the scenes about social media web sites, but I read every word of that ….aaaaaand the interview with Hassan. ( chefs kiss by the way) It was gripping and really interesting! Thanks.

Paul Roub

@mmasnick is there a term for a no-longer-useful-idiot?

Jason Murphy

@mmasnick The Chinese have a saying: Going up the mountain is easy, going down the mountain is hard.
It's about the part of your life when you grow in skills, gain power etc, and then the second part where you descend from that apex. Peoople who rise gracefully can descend gracefully. But for Elon, the second part is hard, because his rise was based on being such a rule-breaker, so disloyal

Eumenes

@mmasnick This is a hell of an article...

StarkRG

@mmasnick Wow, a bunch of those Muskrat minions got into the comments. I don't think they understand words.

vruz

@mmasnick The little petty dictator of Melonia Minor is creating his own little personal firewall of Western Stupidsburg, only those choosing to remain gaslighted stay inside.

#FREEZEPEACH

Mike "piñata economy" Sims

@mmasnick Just because you suck up to the billionaire doesn't mean the billionaire gives a shit about you.

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

@mmasnick Experiencing a ban on Twitter by Elon Musk became a hidden blessing for me. This incident encouraged me to take a serious look at Mastodon, where I found an extraordinary platform. In stark contrast to Twitter's propensity for fostering division, Mastodon cultivates a community free from hate, bigotry, and with minimal trolling. Transitioning to this platform has really elevated my quality of life to the point I wouldn't go back even if Musk tried to pay me to do so.

Illyana 🏳️‍⚧️

@mmasnick OMG I can't believe my cabin got flooded on this slowly sinking ship.

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@mmasnick

And if Musk backs off and restores Taibbi, how long before Taibbi goes back to being a Musk apologist, despite being subjected to the anti-free-speech, sophomoric punishments that he once claimed did not exist?
#journalisticIntegrity

Seiðr

@mmasnick There is an expression in Spanish derived from a tidbit of Iberian history (regarding the treason of Viriatus, the Lusitanian leader): Roma traditoribus non praemiat.

Hope Matt enjoys it. :)

M. Grégoire

@mmasnick What was misleading and misunderstood about Twitter's visibility filtering?

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@mmasnick

Taibbi is learning the hard way that sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out to be your enemy.

"Wait! You're telling me that life has three dimensions? More??"

carlos quintana

@mmasnick - What!? Taibbi isn't Musk's habibi anymore?

Shoq

@mmasnick The lines between reality and absurdity, fact and fiction, and good and evil, get finer every day for these people. I worry about the day when the convergence is complete. I'm calling it societal enshittification :)

Louis Ingenthron

@shoq @mmasnick The line has always been well-defined. It's sycophantism. Either you're a sycophant or you're an enemy.

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