At this point, I can't decide if I'm more annoyed by Elon and his cronies who spent the past month LARPing as principled free speech warriors, or by the lefties who spent years saying "it's a private corporation it can do what it wants" (despite also believing corporations are intrinsically evil) but are now acting like banning journalists from twitter is a human's rights abuse.
The loudest whiners are a mirror image of the Freeze Peach Brigade of old but I think more people are pissed off by the outright hypocrisy than anything else. The other facet is twitter policy being dictated by whatever Elongated Muskrat took personally the day before. Twitter's become more mercurial than it's ever been, even more than when the old guard vacillated over blocking links to the Hunter laptop stories, and it's spawning drama.
In other news, it seems that Twitter has a unified user account system and a balkanised permissions one as the journos who were suspended still had access to Twitter Spaces. They decided to have a little conference to blow off steam and a man who's nominally in charge of at least 4 companies somehow found time to insert himself into the conversation:
Spot The Farms' favourite in there.
Predictably, one of the suspended journos decided to put Elon's ass on blast, leading Elon to become so assblasted that he left the Space and apparently had it deleted and the entire Spaces platform disabled:
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Elon confirmed that Spaces was down by announcing it was back but with no elaboration as to why it went away in the first place. Presumably the permissions were tightened up while it was offline:
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Elon put up a 2 polls to decide if the doxxing or 'doxxing' accounts should be reinstated, seems like he didn't like the results of the 1st poll:
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He also left this butthurt reply to the first poll, the tone of which seems familiar though it lacks the superfluous capitalisation:
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Eventually, the saga ended:
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...or did it? He only seems to have unsuspended the journos and not
ElonJet.

Even posting a link to ElonJet's insta is blocked, though possibly only for US users:
What really amuses me, for some reason, is discovering that ElonJet is on
TruthSocial.