{"id":1198683,"date":"2023-11-01T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198683"},"modified":"2023-11-01T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:53:53","slug":"major-critic-of-x-sues-after-being-banned-from-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198683","title":{"rendered":"Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dartboard-x-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"X with a dart through it\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dartboard-x.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1493\" data-width=\"2240\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Tooga\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site\u2019s embrace of the far-right after Elon Musk\u2019s takeover last year.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Brown, a software developer based in Berlin, alleges his account was first suspended on July 1 this year, several months after his data formed the basis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/23\/technology\/twitter-elon-musk-twitter-blue-check-verification.html\">New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/08\/tech\/twitter-unbanned-users-returning\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reports claiming that far-right influencers featured prominently among Twitter Blue subscribers, and how thousands of previously banned X accounts, including members of the far-right, were being reinstated on the site.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Brown announced his decision to challenge his account\u2019s suspension in court in Berlin. \u201cThis is a matter of principle,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it is important that platforms like Twitter are not allowed to shut down criticism arbitrarily.\u201d X did not reply to repeated requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980304#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980304&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1980304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major critic of X sues after being banned from platform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Tooga\/Getty Images) X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site\u2019s embrace of the far-right after Elon Musk\u2019s takeover last year. Travis Brown, a software developer based in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1198683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}