Followed up by Mr Free Speech banning the accounts of a number of journalists that follow him.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...urnalists-musk

His supporters seem to rounding on a new phase of apologism for him which follows the lines of "He's making all these complex decisions that the libs can't possibly understand." Sure! I'm sure his form of cancel culture and censorship is much more reasoned and not at all hysterical or narcissistic. At all.

Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/16/twit...e-company.html

But yeah, freedom of speech and stuff ...



Edit: sorry, just noticed that this had already been posted

The joke is he claims banning @elonjet was a matter of personal safety but if anyone wanted him to harm him they would go straight to the publically available data, not wait for @elonjet to tweet.

(just the first two I came across)

You seem to have missed the point, again......

Err... how did journalists simply "following" him go against the T&Cs?

Are you saying their accounts were suspended because he felt they shouldn't have written articles about him IN THE PUBLICATIONS THEY WORK FOR? Who was it repeatedly talking about "over-reach"?

He is comedy gold! Almost as good as NFT Ranta Claus (Trump).

These quotes are from before Mr. Free Speech took over Twitter

Shhh...TC is happily in denial. Don't disturb him.

Not as funny as seeing the hypocrisy exposed

- "Twitter is a private company, it can do what it wants"

- "Have you not heard of T&C's?!"

- "If you don't like go off and make your own Twitter"

Did i miss anything?

Yes.

Irony?

On EF today, there’s been some talk of odd sounds that some can and some can’t hear…

This is one: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!

(The sound of the point going over TC’s conspiracy addled head)

They can always go to Truth Social

"they're still free to spout their drivel and misinformation, they just don't have the borrowed megaphone anymore"

He banned journalists that were simply following him. You understand the function of journalists, don't you?

"They were inciting violence by their tweets, they need to take ownership for what they say"

FWIW I think it was bad move by Elon Musk, doesn't project the best picture to have an erratic moderation policy and never a good look to ban journalists.

HOWEVER, the bleating in the media over this when there was near silence over the Twitter Files and almost zero condemnation over the the banning of President Trump, prominent scientists and conservatives over the past years reveals the duplicity at play.

Maybe he should have picked a better time to drop than at the same time as the Meghan and Harry docu-whine that's distracted the battalion of perma-outraged gammons. There's only so much pearl-clutching they can manage in one sitting...

agree completely. i don't agree with the ban as it appears but maybe further information will come out.

maybe he's just doing it temporarily to highlight the hypocrisy we now see with all the ardent defenders of free speech coming out of the woodwork!