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# Twitter Flexes Its Power Again, Crushing Free Speech
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/twitter-flexes-its-power-again-crushing-free-speech/
- Published: 2023-04-07T21:08:58.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-07T21:08:58.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Michael Kan: Twitter Disables Retweets, Likes on Posts With Substack Links](https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-disables-retweets-likes-on-posts-with-substack-links?ref=birchtree.me)

> Twitter is now blocking users from retweeting, replying and liking tweets that contain a link to news publishing platform Substack, which is preparing its own microblogging service.

Your resident [free speech absolutist](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127689351/elon-musk-calls-himself-a-free-speech-absolutist-what-could-twitter-look-like-un?ref=birchtree.me) strikes again!

[The Verge has a piece on this as well.](https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-writers-founders-mad-restrictions-elon-musk?ref=birchtree.me)

> “It appears that Musk is making decisions based on his own financial interests and petty grievances — even if it makes Twitter objectively worse for users,” Judd Legum, author of [*Popular Information*](https://popular.info/?ref=birchtree.me), a politics-focused newsletter with more than 240,000 subscribers, says in an email to *The Verge*. “If this continues, it’s hard to justify continuing to invest my time creating content on Twitter.”

Makes me think of an old Simpsons episode where chaos has been going on in a courtroom, someone may have been killed, and Homer utters, ["stop, this has gone on just ling enough!"](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f5967b00-0d91-4b57-bcb0-e78bee46bf3c?ref=birchtree.me)