On October 14, 2026, SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed limit on military-grade Starshield terminals used by Ukrainian forces, automatically cutting internet connectivity for terminals moving faster than 100 mph (160 km/h) and disrupting several high-speed military drone operations.
Why would anyone want to use Twitter still?
This mistifies me also. No one really stands for anything anymore.
I wrote my “independent” government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.
They wrote back, saying “right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers.”
Cowards.
It wouldn’t cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.
Unfortunately, with a widespread reach it’s a platform bigger than Bluesky or Mastodon; the EFF made itself Bluesky-exclusive, so effectively reducing its reach, but some progressive news outlets like Al-Jazeera still maintains a presence on Twitter and is free to criticize Israeli and American actions.