Everyone Missed the Point of Elon Musk Suspending and Unsuspending Journalists Over Doxxing
He accomplished two missions with his move. The obvious one is that he and his company are getting the type of massive free publicity we haven’t seen since the 2016 Republican primary season when every move Donald Trump made was national news every day. Between the Twitter Files FBI bombshell and this move to suspend journalists for a day, he put a huge strain on his servers because of the masses of people hitting the site. That’s important because he will demonstrate soon once enough statistics are collected that since he bought Twitter, traffic to the site and the apps skyrocketed.
The second mission is less obvious but clearly more important to him. Even though most of the accounts have been reinstated after a very short suspension (I’ve been suspended for seven days before over Tweets that DIDN’T doxx him or anyone else), the message he sent was crystal clear: Journalists do not get free rein just because they’re journalists. They will be held accountable for their Tweets.
Wow, ima getn a reel gud edjamacashun from all ye all’s this fine myunin, I needs to rest ma brain.
I think this was also a delightful little benefit of the suspending/unsuspending maneuver.....
Musk’s pinned tweet:
So inspiring to see the newfound love of freedom of speech by the press 🥰