In addition to the 11 journalists being booted from Twitter, a related development: Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon and other fediverse sites. This morning, I attempted to post a link to my Mastodon profile (https://scholar.social/@robertwgehl). It was blocked due to it being "harmful content." In addition, Twitter has suspended @joinmastodon, the main Mastodon developers' account. Perhaps this is an old fashioned capitalist attempt to crush the competition? Or maybe not. As a test, I tried posting a link to the far-right site Gab.com, a social media site which harbors self-identified Nazis and was the social media of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter. Gab styles itself as a free speech absolutist alternative to Twitter. The Gab.com link was allowed. - Rob On 2022-12-15 22:47, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11 journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know? I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I am not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon , but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
Thanks, Emma