The social network published new conditions of use, this Sunday, December 18, which angered a large part of the users.
Even if Elon Musk had taken his day to attend the final of the Football World Cup, the controversies around Twitter never seem to want to stop.
Twitter wants to ban links to its competitors, and takes advantage of the World Cup to pass the pill
As the eyes of millions of football fans watched Messi and the Argentina national team lift the trophy, Twitter published a new version of its usage policy which prohibited the posting of links to several competing social networks altogether. .
In the list of banned platforms, we could find Mastodon, the direct competitor of Twitter, but also Facebook, Instagram, as well as Truth Social (the social network of Donald Trump), Tribel, Post and Nostr. Network aggregators such as linktr.ee and lnk.bio were also blacklisted.
Twitter indicated in this new policy of use that the links were prohibited both in tweets, but also in biographies. Impossible therefore to share his Instagram social profile under penalty of a withdrawal of the tweets and even a deletion in good and due form of the account.
After the outcry, Elon Musk turns around and organizes a vote
As soon as these new rules were in place, thousands of users of the blue bird showed their dissatisfaction, crying out for censorship against what was, in fact, a questioning of the very functioning of the Web and the sharing of links. . Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter himself, reacted by indicating that his new rules had ” any sense “.
Others have mocked the alleged defense of freedom of expression, so much vaunted by Elon Musk in recent months, and which seems to be variable geometry, depending on his interests. Proof of this is the deletion of the accounts of several journalists who simply criticized the action of the new boss.
After a few hours of chaos, Elon Musk finally took the floor to apologize for this new usage policy, allegedly by mistake, and organized a vote for or against these new rules. At the time of this writing, the ” Nope clearly seems to be holding the line.
Twitter for its part deleted its tweets announcing the bad news while the rules of use appeared this Sunday have simply disappeared.
Source : The Verge
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