To ensure “freedom of expression” twitter who bought the platform Elon Musk today banned many journalists and Mastodon.
Let’s do a summary first. Elon Musk It follows the movements of the private jet aircraft used by the company and shares it in real time via Twitter. ElonJet His account was banned recently. Later, the person who managed this account was also banned from Twitter. In particular, the account that was banned for violating Twitter’s community rules and the rules were updated for this, Musk previously said, “My commitment to freedom of expression extends to not banning an account that tracks my flight, even if it poses a direct personal security risk.” he said.
Often “Freedom of expression” Elon Musk, who said that he took Twitter to provide security, restricted the freedom of expression of many journalists last night. On Twitter last night between them from The New York Times Ryan Macfrom CNN Donie O’Sullivanfrom The Washington Post Drew Harwell from The Intercept Michael Leefrom Mashable Matt Binder, Aaron Rupar and Tony WebsterAccounts of journalists reporting on Elon Musk and Twitter, including .
Behind these prohibitions It was reported that there were posts to follow Elon Musk’s plane. Because after the Elonjet account was banned, many alternatives emerged in this regard, and journalists began to share them on their personal accounts. Last night, in addition to all of them, a Mastodon The ban began. Mastodon, an alternative social media channel to Twitter located here Access to the official Twitter account has been cut off.
Twitter also blocks users from connecting to many major servers on Mastodon. Behind the Mastodon ban too “ElonJet” is located. It was announced from the official account that ElonJet was in Mastodon and a link was given to a server where the aircraft was tracked.
Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
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All this, of course, drew a lot of backlash. Responding to one of these criticisms today, Elon Musk briefly said “It’s okay if I’m personally criticized, but deciphering my location in real time and putting my family in danger is fine.” said. Location of Musk’s private plane Despite the ban on Twitter, you can still be actively followed.. In fact, because of these prohibitions, there is now more interest in the process of people, namely the location of the plane.
Elon Musk, as part of a live interview he attended on Twitter last week, “The risk of being assassinated is pretty high.” he said. Behind this issue was Musk’s disclosure of documents showing that Twitter censored the news about Hunter Biden, son of United States (US) President Joe Biden.
“Obviously, the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally getting shot, is pretty significant.” said Musk, also “It’s not that hard to kill someone when you want, I hope they don’t, fate will laugh at me and it won’t happen. There is definitely risk in this.” had used the words.