Twitter Inc. has suspended the accounts of the account of Indian micro-blogging platform Koo.
Earlier on Friday @kooeminence’s Twitter handle was suspended. Billionaire Elon Musk-owned Twitter on Friday suspended several prominent global journalists, including those from the New York Times, CNN, and Washington Post.
“I forgot. There’s more! – Banning Mastodon account. – Not allowing mastodon links saying it’s unsafe. – Banning Koo’s eminence handle. I mean seriously. How much more control does the guy need?” Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of the homegrown microblogging platform said.
Taking to Twitter in a series Bidawatka questioned the reason and said, “1. Posting publicly available info isn’t doxxing. Why shoot the messenger? 2. Journalists that posted links did nothing wrong. Posting a link to publicly available info isn’t doxxing the way posting a link to an online article isn’t plagiarism. 3. Leaving spaces without answering journalists is bad. 4. Creating policies out of thin air to suit yourself is worse. 5. Changing your stance every other day is inconsistent. 6. Posting a video of an unknown car on Twitter with the car plate showing – how’s that allowed?”
Meanwhile, to control conversations Twitter killed spaces overnight, said Koo founder.
“He further added that there are other things that Twitter had done in the past week which is not a democracy. One needs to speak up,” Bidawatka said.
Slamming Elon Musk Bidawatka said, “This place is what it is because of you and millions of other users like us. Let’s not fuel this guy’s ego.”
Earlier on Twitter #ElonIsDestroyingTwitter was trending but suddenly it was removed from Twitter on which Bidawatka said, “And guess what! Suddenly. Almost suddenly #ElonIsDestroyingTwitter has been removed from the trending section. Twitter is a publisher. Not a platform anymore!”
However, Musk has also suspended the Twitter accounts of Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of The Intercept, political journalist Keith Olbermann, Aaron Rupar, and Tony Webster, both independent journalists.
