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   Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Dec-2022 22:21:20 JST Peter

   incredible that the response of all these journalism outlets has been "we demand to be reinstated," not "Twitter is an unsafe, unstable platform run by an untrustworthy actor with a political agenda and we decline to participate in it further."

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 03:59:03 JST hypolite

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     • Joshua Chalifour
     @kinetix @owlyph @peter No, but the newspapers these journalists depend on for their livelihood have built their business model on Twitter, so now they are cornered into keeping their existing strategy while the main platform they relied on for marketing quickly crumbles.
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     Kinetix (kinetix@mycrowd.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 03:59:04 JST Kinetix

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     @peter
     Like.... Twitter's a public utility? lol
     @owlyph
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     Kinetix (kinetix@mycrowd.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 04:54:13 JST Kinetix

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     • Joshua Chalifour
     @hypolite @owlyph @peter And once they depended on print for their livelihoods. I don't wish employees of these organizations ill at all, but much legacy media has been thrashing about for years without figuring things out (relying on something like Twitter is a thing, but not a good thing that one should prop their business on). The situation is fairly awful, and hopefully more new media types grow and flourish and continue to provide a notion to the dinosaurs how to provide news these days (and I think there's a long way to go there).
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 04:54:13 JST hypolite

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     • Kinetix
     @kinetix I agree with you, but as usual in industry upheaval, the dinosaurs will stay in place while employees will be sacked.
     
     Also, if the Trump presidency has shown anything about the US journalism industry, it's that it doesn't care much about ethics in general, but it does care about access.