drewharwell,
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New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ @jeremybmerrill

drewharwell,
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First flagged on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130060

drewharwell,
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Substack’s cofounders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi tell me in a statement: "Substack was created in direct response to this kind of behavior by social media companies" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

drewharwell,
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New York Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander tells me in a statement: "We have not received any explanation from the platform about this move" and "would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons"

tobi,
@tobi@unbound.social avatar

@drewharwell Substack? Ain't that a Nazi bar?

unabogie,
@unabogie@urbanists.social avatar

@drewharwell

Musk is a Free Speech Absolutist for speech he likes. Like Nazism or bigotry against trans kids.

monorailtimes,
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@drewharwell it’s cause Twitter sucks

staidwinnow,
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@drewharwell If the NYT does not like the terms, they do not have to be on X.

Free market, bitches!

Oh, the argument now is Free Speech must be free* to sacred institutions.

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gnaddrig,
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@staidwinnow @drewharwell Who said it is about their own Twitter presence? The delay will apply to any links to NYT content posted by anyone, right?

staidwinnow,
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@gnaddrig @drewharwell

I hope so.

gnaddrig,
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staidwinnow,
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@gnaddrig @drewharwell

There is a certain amount of schadenfreude to be enjoyed when the so-called liberal rag carries water for him and other racists, and now suffers at the altar.

Like this shit:

juergen_hubert,
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@staidwinnow @gnaddrig @drewharwell "Liberal"? The NYT has been a conservative newspaper since forever!

gnaddrig,
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@juergen_hubert @staidwinnow @drewharwell But crrtainly left of Fox 'News' which I've been told by a MAGA type is essentially moderately conservative, close to the center of the spectrum. That would make the NYT a liberal rag...

juergen_hubert,
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@gnaddrig @staidwinnow @drewharwell FOX News is outright fascist.

gnaddrig,
@gnaddrig@mastodon.social avatar

@juergen_hubert @staidwinnow @drewharwell Everybody knows that, but some pretend otherwise.

GreenFire,
@GreenFire@mstdn.social avatar

@drewharwell
If a newspaper makes a statement like, "would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons" about what ELoon would do to block news he doesn't like doesn't deserve to be called a journalism outfit.

LoraFisherPOV,

@drewharwell
Shenanigans.

kgoldsholl,

@drewharwell Substack is not a "network". It has no network effects. It is a newsletter publishing platform.

tealcows,
@tealcows@mastodon.online avatar

@drewharwell Thank you for being so active on here I enjoy the content you share a lot.

Zeta,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Biggest waste of money of all time.

derek,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill "free speech absolutist"🧐

mad,
@mad@freiburg.social avatar

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

elon knows fair play.

🤦

__icoder__,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Wow, 5 seconds, which are 1.67 full traffic stops (3 seconds). They really want to stop the traffic to these sites, don't they? 😂

Uppity_N_Ornery,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

In other words, Phony Stark continues to be a colossal shitbag.

Debideaux,

@drewharwell and here we are the Trojan :mastodon:

wjmaggos,
@wjmaggos@liberal.city avatar

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

any chance of a WaPo.social server?

4NEMOKAZUHA,

@drewharwell least idiotic Elon move

misgivings,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill so glad an infant is in charge of twitter now.

riley,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill
why is this news

xs4me2,
@xs4me2@mastodon.social avatar

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

Well guess that's the end stage then...

shuttersparks,
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@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Why is anybody still there? (That's just a rhetorical question. Lol.)

Laurel,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill He’s a controller but he won’t win. Money isn’t everything. Everyone must support sources and sites that he doesn’t control. We have to preserve sources of accurate information and news distribution that is true and uncompromised.

sakamotoryou,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill this behavior is the same as CCP 😂

respectmyplanet,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill A real free speech absolutist? Or a petulant toddler of a dictator?

otterX,

@drewharwell 😂 he’s so petty.

brian,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill It's beyond me why any news organization is still on Twitter. 🤷‍♂️

sigi714,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill Ah, the concept of free delayed speech.

AndrewMettier,
@AndrewMettier@mastodon.social avatar
MHowell,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill
When are they going to finally abandon X?

voron,
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@jeremybmerrill @drewharwell please beat us more Elon says nytimes etc

mlanger,
@mlanger@mastodon.world avatar

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill @zebpalmer

As long as he's not reducing the speed at which Tweet Deleter removes my content there, I don't mind. Not sure why people still are on the dead bird site anyway.

senatorbrownshirt,

@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill

Musk's twisted version of "free speech."
I appreciate his unintended transparency.

BackFromTheDud,
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@drewharwell @jeremybmerrill petty minded tosser.

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