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Holly MathNerd's avatar

I think "block" is a fair word. I tweeted some Substack links and tested them myself, both logged in and not, and every time they led to a page with a warning that the link was "unsafe." True, you can override your own browser's safety settings (if you're in charge of them, as most people are on their personal computers but are not on work computers) but it differed in no way that I noticed from the warning to avoid actually unsafe pages, pages that steal data, etc. I think Musk's move was intended to be deceitful, whether it met the dictionary definition of "lying" or not.

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Julie Dee's avatar

Yes I was banned from Twitter and that’s one of the reasons I set up on here. Although i am

against ‘pay to play’ on any platform, to pay to use it (like a blue tick) would be insane if then one’s substack links were shadow banned.

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