We’ve mentioned before that many Twitter users left when Elon Musk bought the platform and started making changes. Mastodon became a popular alternative, but it looks like Twitter is taking a stand against the competition. Mastodon’s official Twitter account is now closed, and links to the platform are indicated as harmful.
The drama started early on Twitter yesterday. An account called ElonJet was sharing live locations of Musk’s personal plane. While Elon is welcome to free speech, one of the platform’s policies is that no one shares the live locations of anyone. It’s seen as breaching security and putting people’s lives in danger.
Not long after that, someone posted a tweet with a link to ElonJet’s account on Mastodon. Technically, they were still violating the safety policy, even if indirectly, with links to a different platform. Elon decided to take drastic measures, even posting that no one messes with his family.
What he did was ban the Mastodon account on Twitter. Also, any links posted on Twitter to Mastodon cause a message to appear that the content may be considered harmful. Basically, Twitter is saying that Mastodon doesn’t follow the same safety practices.
During all this drama, someone posted a short video of someone stalking them from another vehicle. The victim walked to the car and filmed the stalker with a hoodie and mask on, who was filming him back on his own phone. The victim proceeded to move to the front of the car to record the license plate.
Why is this important? Well, to normal people like us, it probably isn’t. However, Elon proceeded to share the video, asking if anyone knows who the culprit is. It sparked a mass of comments, specifically related to the ElonJet incident. Twitter had just banned the account for sharing a live location, and here Elon was doing the same thing.
There was a massive debate about it. Some commenters said that anyone has access to license plate information. Also, the live location of the incident wasn’t provided. Still, many used that situation to imply that Elon and Twitter have double standards.
