Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, December 16th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Elon Musk has once again proven that the flesh is weak because there's a new Twitter controversy

that I can't help but tell you about.

Is it a good look when accounting firms writing reports to prove crypto companies are solvent says

it will no longer work with crypto companies are solvent says it will no longer work with

crypto companies is Netflix's ad supported tier not signing up as many eyeballs

as advertisers hoped and of course the weekend long read suggestions here's

what you miss today in the world of tech.

Every time I think I'm out, they pulled me back in.

I know I told you, I didn't want to cover any new Elon Twitter controversies,

especially around who he would or wouldn't ban, but I guess I have to carve out exceptions for controversies that might affect this show directly.

More on that in a second, but also, it's probably unlikely I could have resisted telling you about all this anyway.

First up, late yesterday... likely I could have resisted telling you about all this anyway.

First up, late yesterday, Twitter suspended Mastodon's official Twitter account

and prevented links to Mastodon servers from being tweeted or added to profile bios.

Twitter called them harmful and malware, which, okay, capricious,

but also not nonsensical.

Macedon is a Twitter competitor.

Elon owns the platform.

No one says he has to help a competitor on his platform.

Then Twitter started suspending the accounts of several journalists, including the New York Times is Ryan Mac and CNN's Donnie O'Sullivan.

Elon Musk later said that the quote same doxing rules apply to journalists end quote quoting NBC news the accounts of

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