Originally published at: Twitter blocks article critical of Elon Musk as "unsafe" | Boing Boing
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Obligs
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If you just presume that the only twitter user whose experience matters is a thin-skinned manchild who may recently have exhibited some historically bad judgement in matters of business, it’s not even false to say that critical articles may disrupt people’s experience.
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With all the people he no longer has employed, how do they find the time to hunt for articles criticizing Der Fuhrer?
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That’s… not how humor works.
Knock knock! Please note that I am not actually knocking at a door. I am verbalizing a rough approximation of the sound of a person knocking as a part of the set-up of a joke based on an unlikely discourse between two individuals.
Who’s there? I should note that I, the second person in this humorous dramatization, actually do know the identity of the person who made the knocking sound but I am playing through this scenario for comedic effect.
Nobel. Though in actual fact my name is not “Nobel.” This is another part of the joke.
Nobel who? This, too, is a question I’m asking as part of the joke as “Nobel” is a very rare name so it seems unlikely I would know more than one person who would identify themselves that way in any event.
Nobel… that’s why I knocked! This is a play on words that serves as the punchline for our humorous fictional exchange, as “Nobel” is a homophone for “no bell.”
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Sorta related: I signed up for mastodon (im still not sold on it but anyway…) and when I tried to post a link on Facebook so friends there could follow me if they had accounts, Facebook repeatedly marked it as spam and I just gave up…
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Freedom of speech for others isn’t nearly as good as freedom of speech for oneself.
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The warning had been removed as of Saturday morning after multiple media outlets – including this one – reported on it… i.e., called out Elon as a cry-baby, spoiled toddler
Fixed it for ya, there, Mediaite.
So anyway… this is just another example where Elon has no one in his orbit who would say, “Dude… that’s a stuuuuuuuuupid idea!”
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Mediate is a spammy web site. In almost all cases I landed there, the content was junk, so the warning was probably well deserved. In any case, there are so many Musk haters/bashers including on Twitter that the thought that Twitter tries to go after them is silly.
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Also very, very needy:
I understand the journalistic impulse to establish a record, but is a public tweet really breaking news, guys? I mean, it’s not like you’re Buzzfeed.
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It is the mark of a truly robust joke, that I still laughed at the punchline. 
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Indeed. As also explained here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23117545-the-onion-amicus-brief
Honestly it is not as long or as hard a read as it may at first appear, and it has a fair few good belly laughs in it, too.
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Elon can get at least a chapter.
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also going forward jokes must have their punchline in the title.
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This joke is called “The Aristocrats!”
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