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by einpoklum 1284 days ago
Just so you guys know - censorship and bans on Twitter are not at all a thing of the past in the Elon Musk era. There is, of course:

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange

which is still "Account suspended"

but also new suspensions/bans, e.g. left-wing commentator Garland Nixon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/z2depd/garlan...

and additional examples.

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For those who don't know what @ElonJet is: It is not a human's account, it is an account where a bot posts locations in the world of Elon Musk's jet (which it gets using publicly-accessible data).

TBH, I believe that bot activity regulation and censorship of people are two distinct issues. Still, the search-shadowbanning of @ElonJet is quite inappropriate.