Koo’s Account suspension: Twitter on Friday suspended the handle of its Indian rival microblogging site Koo. Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of the indian microblogging platform, announced this on his official Twitter account. Twitter has suspended the Koo Eminence account, which was only created a few days ago. It was for celebrities and VIPs who wanted to join the platform and had questions.
While sharing the news, Bidawatka slammed Twitter and Elon Musk for a series of account suspensions. On Twitter, Bidawatka wrote, I forgot. There’s more! – Banning Mastodon account. – Not allowing mastodon links saying it’s unsafe. – Banning Koo’s eminence handle. I mean seriously. How much more control does the guy need?”
Bidawatka’s series of tweets
Koo’s Account suspension: In a series of tweets, Bidawatka questioned the rationale behind suspending the @kooeminence account, which has been set up only a few days ago for queries posed by celebrities and VIPs wanting to use the Indian social media platform.
- Posting publicly available info isn’t doxxing. Why shoot the messenger?
- Journalists that posted links did nothing wrong. Posting a link to publicly available info isn’t doxxing the way posting a link to an online article isn’t plagiarism,” Koo co-founder Bidawtka said.
- Leaving spaces without answering journalists is bad.
- Creating policies out of thin air to suit yourself is worse.
- Changing your stance every other day is inconsistent.
- Posting a video of an unknown car on Twitter with the car plate showing – how’s that allowed?” he added.
- Killing spaces overnight to control conversations.
8 There are other things that Twitter had done in the past week which is not a democracy. One needs to speak up
https://twitter.com/mayankbidawatka/status/1603772001361223681?s=20&t=2PPl46GqSc9TK7eKRtrouA
In addition, Bidawatka clarified, “What’s more, guess what! Suddenly. Almost overnight, the hashtag #ElonIsDestroyingTwitter was removed from the trending section. Twitter is a publishing platform. It’s no longer a platform!”
This comes just a day after Twitter suspended the accounts of about a half-dozen prominent journalists who have been covering the social media site and Musk, citing violations of “doxxing” rules.
