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Elon Musk’s new censorship

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the social network has gone from bad to worse. Despite the fact that this website was not at its best, the tycoon is just destroying it by imposing his own, and absurd, ideals in the form of rules. Absolutely all the changes that have come to this social network since its acquisition have been controversial and problematic. And, this weekend, the criticism has returned after a controversial tweet that has now disappeared.

Since Musk took over Twitter, users have started looking for other alternative social networks. And one of the ones that have gained the most weight has been Mastodon, a social network that imitates Twitter but with freedom of expression and totally free and decentralized.

Obviously, the tycoon who is looking for how to make Twitter a profitable social network and recover his investment as soon as possible does not like when users talk about other social networks, much less that they use Twitter to link their profiles to other social networks. Therefore, this weekend, in another of his moments of greatness, Musk decided prohibit linking to other social networks from Twitterautomatically suspending the accounts of those users who did so.

This is how Twitter announced the new rule

For several days now, some users were suddenly finding that their profile within the social network was suspended for no apparent reason. If that happens to a troll user, or a normal user, no one notices. But if it happens to a famous person, an influencer, or a prestigious journalist, then the rumors spread like wildfire.

After the closure of the accounts of several famous journalists in the United States, rumors about the reasons began to circulate massively, although all of them speculating about the reason for the closure. Finally, this weekend, Elon Musk decided to publish, on the official Twitter account, the new rule that has been taken out of his sleeve.

Twitter delete accounts links social networks

As we can see, with this new rule, everything linked to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and other social networks is totally prohibited, under penalty of account suspension.

It is a very curious movement when Elon Musk entered Twitter with an ideal of freedom of expression, to “let the bird fly freely” and end the censorship that had been flying over the social network for a long time.

tweet now deleted

This tweet, which can only be accessed from history websites, has already been removed from the social network. Just as the help page that is linked in the tweet that we have shown with the new rule has also been removed. This is because, possibly, this message has been one more heat from Musk that, after several hours, he has regretted.

This is not the only controversial movement of this social network in recent days. Without going further, Musk has broken his word again by removing some controversial accounts that allowed, for example, real-time monitoring of the flights of famous people, including him.

Right now, Elon Musk is taking a binding poll on whether or not he should leave his post at Twitter. Will he resign if the majority votes yes (as he is winning with 57% of the vote) at the end? Spoilers: no.

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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

December 19, 2022 • 00:20

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