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In case you're not being sarcastic... Nov 2022, Musk promises not to ban ElonJet, a bot tracker that uses publicly available flight info: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 A month later, Twitter under Musk bans ElonJet, claiming it's tracking his "real time location"?: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/elonjet... Followed by bans of Mastodon for tweeting a link to ElonJet's Mastodon: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23511894/twitter-suspend... And bans of journalists for covering it (perhaps for linking the Mastodon?): https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalist... That article also mentions Twitter banning users for linking their own Mastodon profiles: "As the furor over the account suspensions unfolded, some Twitter users reported the platform had begun intervening when they attempted to post links to their own profiles on alternative social networks, including Mastodon." Twitter then bans all usage of Twitter to share links to competing social networks: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-li... Although the policy was quickly reverted after backlash, Musk said explicitly, "Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288 April 2023, Twitter blocks engagement on Substack link tweets, coincidentally after Substack announced a Twitter competitor: https://www.engadget.com/twitter-blocks-interactions-on-twee... Twitter folds to a demand by the Indian government, for the first time censoring a tweet globally, not just in India: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-po... September 2024, Twitter finally releases a transparency report after skipping for 2 years (and the data for 2022-2023 are still missing btw): https://www.wired.com/story/x-twitter-first-transparency-rep... That transparency report shows nearly 71% compliance with legal takedown requests, compared to ~50% max across previous reports. | ||