Twitter has banned a number of documented accounts, whose owners replaced their names with “Elon Musk”, in a move that mocked the owner of the new social network.
Among the owners of these accounts is the actress Cathy Griffin, whose Twitter page follows two million users. The actress was not satisfied with replacing her account name with “Elon Musk”, but rather replaced the main account of the billionaire.
The president of the company “Tesla”, who previously confirmed that he was “defending freedom of expression absolutely”, tweeted on Sunday that “the accounts that imitate the personality of a person without clearly mentioning that their step involves humor, will be banned permanently. ”
Also, the activist “H3H3PROUDUTIOTIS” on YouTube was suspended, although the changes that were made clearly appear to be a humor.
Elon Musk, who is accused of being interfered with the decisions to ban the accounts targeting him, replied to suspend the Cathy Griffin account with a tweet in which he sarcastically said, “The account was banned because its user was impersonated. ” As for Griffin, she used to use her deceased mother’s account, and she wrote, “I went back to death to ask you to re -calculate Cathy.
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And it spread on Twitter, #freekathy, which was used by many activists in their tweets, most notably the actor Mark Hamiel, who is participating in the “Star Wars” series.
The first decisions of Musk after the completion of the Twitter acquisition for $ 44 billion, to lay off about half of the platform employees, and to launch the subscription service paid to the documented accounts.
Based on the new plan, users can by paying eight dollars a month can obtain the famous network documentation mark, which indicates that the account is documented..
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