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WOW. Elon Musk's Twitter straight-up banned the account for Mastodon. Just, wow.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Yesterday it was public ADS-B data because it's considered "doxxing" (Later on posting a license plate asking for people to identify it ๐Ÿ™„)

Today it's banning any other platforms from having an account on Twitter. I wonder which part of the policy he's created (in his shallow egotistical mind) for this to be allowed.

Free speech eh?
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@jack It's literally right there in front of your eyes
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google stapler quartermaster
itliterally isn't fucking stop making shit up
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Joshua Strobl
@jack A ban, whether temporary or otherwise, is still a ban ๐Ÿคฆ
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@Sirsquid @jack@status.sexyferret.science @gamingonlinux Best to just block the person and carry on with life.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I think, he is in full rage mode now. Bad press? He doesnโ€™t care anymore. After his prosecute/Fauci and other extrem right-wing tweets, he thinks banning Mastodonโ€™s promo account will have even less public effect on him.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Musk is feeling like Mastodon is a threat. They're must be more going on in Twitland than we're seeing.
I'm betting his next move is to tell users that they must be committed to Twitter or be locked out.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@donmelton is it really surprising that twitterโ€™s owner is so shallow that he canโ€™t have anything that could slightly hurt his fragile ego?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

holy smokes!!! Did Twitter JUST Ban a competitor from their own platform. talk about Killing the competition's outreach.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

From what it seems, this is likely related to the Elon Jet following account that was banned on Twitter and then went to Mastodon ๐Ÿ™ƒ because they mentioned it.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

This is the account Elon said previously he wouldn't ban, then did and so banned Mastodon because they mentioned it - educated guess here.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/14/twitter-elon-musk-private-jet-account-suspended
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

yup. Which finally prompted me to post my "goodbye" message to my account. Took several tries, though, because even having "mastodon.social" โ€“ as us or part of a URL โ€“ resulted in post being blocked. Had to change to "mastodon-dot-social" to get the point across. Surprised I was able to update my profile to include my Mastodon account info.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Honestly waiting for twitter to explode from within now. Elon is like Vince Russo when he joined WCW, it almost time for Twitter to face the same fate.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Elon Musk uses conspiracy theories to manipulate people into authoritarianism. People see him as a strong man who is protecting their freedom. The German people saw Hitler as a strong man who was protecting their freedom. Elon just banned Keith Olbermann and a dozen other journalists. Just like Hitler, Elon spreads a fake sense of freedumb and liburty.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

itโ€™s more than that - twitter users canโ€™t even put their mastodon link in their bio anymore - Twitter is labelling it as malware or unsafe. Manchild syndrome coming to the fore
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Maybe the mastodon should have posted more right wing conspiracy theories not to get banned
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

pretty sad, seems Elon takes it all personally and cannot deal with the fact that there are other options and opinions besides his own.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Once agian, Elon proves "HIS VERSION OF FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISM" is only a version of "FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISM" that benefits HIM DIRECTLY. ELON, THAT IS NOT WHAT ABSOLUTISM MEANS. WE WILL TRACK YOU FOREVER.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

LOL.
Should I feel bad about witnessing the self inflicted demise of a privileged dick in real time?
Because I almost feel bad about actually feeling delighted.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

he and Thiel donโ€™t want people freely communicating for their own benefit. If they canโ€™t control it, they want to squash it.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

if mastodon tries to raise a fund to fight an anti-trust lawsuit, I would gladly donate towards the cause.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@mmasnick Iโ€™m enjoying watching his fanboys tie themselves in knots every time he does something like this to say WELL ACTUALLY this is perfectly consistent with his free speech policy.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109520367974810427
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

for a second I thought it was called John Mastodon, fuck it, they should make a new account with the name John Mastodon
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Wow this is so petty. Elon has some of the thinnest skin that it really makes me think he didn't buy Twitter to try to turn it into America's WeChat but just because he doesn't want people to bad mouth him on his shitposting site.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Kind of not surprising though, is it? Like, completely par for the course.

I have noticed some captive portals blocking mastodon.social since the birdsite transition too. Claiming some BS I should have screenshotted.

The powers that be really don't want competition AFAICT.

Controlling a narrative is at least as old as Hearst, arguably, much older.

I guess we all get to see how the non consensually red teaming goes against a distributed decentralized FediVerse in the process?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Lmao, doesn't inspire confidence to watch them go on about bringing back free speech just to ban the accounts of competing social media sites and flag tweets from users who mention them. ๐Ÿ˜‚
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Iโ€™m sure heโ€™ll make another tortured masturbation pun because he canโ€™t even think up the obvious โ€œMastoDonโ€™tโ€
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

small man syndrome. Would he do this for all alternative social medias or what the alternative that specifically Mastodon provides
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

dude seems to be Uber sensitive lately. Him being boed and having to sell another billion to keep twitter afloat.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Are we really surprised by this? This is what "free speech" really means. I want you to have to listen to me and everything I say, but you yourself don't have the right to speak.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

#ElonMusk also did not hesitate using #doxxing to eliminate someone he saw as an enemy (the guy who supposedly jumped on his bonnet. All #Elon fans started searching the guy's number plate to chase him down).

As for the last minute changes to #twitter policies about #location tracking & the possibility #birdsite will enforce #locationsharing, do remove your #mobile number from the site while you can!๐Ÿšจ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Who cares about an anti-union, anti-democracy oligarch does or thinks about anything? I gave the bird to the Bird precisely to avoid being inundated with info about him. The only thing I want to read about him would be an obituary!
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Looks like someone bought himself Twitter so he can have the final word - no matter what. I want to pull the plug there, but at the same time want to stay for the show.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I wrote Elon Elliot Carver Musk & Mastodon on Twitter => Kaboom ๐Ÿ˜‚. No more Twitter for me!
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

This seems to be a catalyst for me. I have requested a total archive of my twitter account...
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Twitter has rapidly become a cesspool of right wing hatred, bigotry, misinformation, and disinformation.

I am unsurprised.

I was permabanned for calling out a rich white dude's lies.

I'm better for it.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

So how do we find the authentic refugees from the wreckage that is rapidly becoming Twitter?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚this lunatic is on a revenge missionโ€ฆand I was somewhat upset he suspended mine over pointing out his obsession with Hunter Biden!
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I have similiar case. My account suddenly locked, and sent verification from SMS not working.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Some people think he's experiencing narcissistic collapse, perhaps from the Chapelle incident, and going berserk. He banned a bunch of journalists as well. His "free speech" routine didn't last long. I get the feeling that Elon lies to himself a lot as the imagined savior of humanity.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

really doesnโ€™t make any sense whatsoever at this point ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Musk's free speech absolutism is just another lie by a fascist. Lies are very minor on the spectrum of what some people will do.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

someone is feeling VERY threatened by this upstart social network ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Will he have them throttle tweets from anyone mentioning Mastodon?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I just read that โ€œ Twitter is no longer allowing posts that contain links to https://counter.social in them. And get this - is flagging them as 'potentially harmful' โ€œ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Apparently the man baby isn't quite done yet. He banned accounts for a number of tech journalists today without warning. Just because.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

So now Elon's rules are "don't hurt my feelings" ?? What a pathetic snowflake. Hard to believe really. He's mentally unstable.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I read earlier somewhere on here that they are also blocking links to counter.social and tagging any post about it as 'sensitive material'
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I'll talk Abt it 10x as much. He's banning tech journalists and others who have written Abt him on the last 24 hrs. He's gone full darkside.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

heโ€™s lost it. Now heโ€™s just hitting suspend for any reason. $8 says he does a complete purge oa anyone that ever had a byline that he considers โ€œwokeโ€ and โ€œliberalโ€. ๐Ÿคจ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

When you don't have to care about antitrust laws because they are not enforced, you can do whatever you want
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Apparently this is because @elonjet after being banned off twitter, joined Mastodon, and apparently that's @joinmastodon's fault. I've not seen a 2 year old have this violent of a temper tantrum...
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

what amazes me is the fact that people are shocked. Society that isnโ€™t pro nazi fascism, is constantly in โ€œshockโ€ for the past 2 years after the pandemic, after the coup attempt, after votes against stimulus checks peak killer virus, after nazi marches, after anti mask, after โ€œthe stealโ€, after banning books, after voter suppression, after voting against baby formula, after voting against sick paid leave, after voting against anti price gauging, after more white supremacy marches, after this Twitter take over and kkk/nazi (same shit different clothes) take over that followedโ€ฆ

Soooo are we just going to keep pretending and sweeping things under the rug??? Or are we going to start having collective action and mass protesting like in Iran??? Or just have Americaโ€™s turn into nazi kkk nation while the rest whine all day??? What are the sports scores on tv guys???
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

What a stupid, crazy idiot.
Indeed it's free speech. His own free speech. All the others just shut up.
So mean, Elmo.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

for all we knew already he is a little insecure guy. Next he shows up at a Kindergarten calls the staff paedophiles and steals the kids candy to resell it to the parents as better, healthier candy when they show to pick up their kidsโ€ฆ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

ich bin von Musk enttรคuscht. Eigentlich ein Visionรคr mit SpaceX, macht er keine Gute Figur mit Twitter und seinen Entgleisungen.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

hereโ€™s the irony, Iโ€™d never heard of Masterdon until I read today about this ban. Muskโ€™s journalist purge was the last straw so I set up my account here. Thanks Elon!
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I have always been uncomfortable with just how fragile Twitter (and for that matter Facebook) was, to the extent that I've always been reluctant to invest heavily in terms of promotion or resources there. This was so unnecessary, but in a way, it was probably just as well that it did happen. Mastodon will thrive. Twitter ... not so much.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Chevy won't put Tesla stickers on Volts either... It's Elon company he can bake what ever cake he likes...
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

huh Twitter has just turned into a soap opera platform after Musk. People should value their time somewhere else
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

wow!
What a crazy turn has Twitter taken lately.

They are also now banning the mastodon links, Elon doesn't like competition either. A small dictator in his own yard
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

so suspending mastodon is fair game because they're a direct competitor but when Ford and GM refuse to line Tesla's pockets it's bad LOL
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Is it that weird? No. Itโ€™s just high-profile now is all.

Ever seen a Chevy ad inside a Ford dealer? Itโ€™s the same situation except digital property.
in reply to greypilgrim

@greypilgrim the internet is an open platform, you can be on and interact with more than one website or social network at a time
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Sure. I agree there.

How about controlling your own website, like your own? Do you allow someone to publish an article about joining Boiling Steam? Or does your website not qualify as "the internet" but Twitter does?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

funfact, Iโ€™m posting this thanks to Musk taking this action and piquing my interest in Mastadon. For such a smart guy he sure lacks an understanding of the Streisand Effect.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I'm glad Elon spends time on rocket science, but social media is just not in his wheelhouse.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

he's claiming all the people being blocked is for doxxing, and right-wing Twitter is going right along with it. Yikes. Yeah Elon, Voice of America was doxxing people. Sure.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

and if you try to post a mastodon link in your bio or in a tweet, that won't work either. I like how you managed to add your link on twitter!

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