Microblogging site Twitter has suspended the account of Indian microblogging platform Koo.

The Twitter name @kooeminence was suspended on Friday, a development that followed billionaire Elon Musk-owned Twitter suspending the accounts of several prominent global journalists, including those of the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post.

Mayank Bidawatka, co-founder of the self-developed microblogging platform, said on Twitter: “I forgot. There’s more! Does this guy need more control?”

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In a series of tweets, Bidawatka questioned the reasons behind the suspension of the @kooeminence account, which was set up just days ago to handle requests from celebrities and VIPs who wanted to use the Indian social media platform.

“1. Posting publicly available information is not doxxing. Why shoot the messenger? 2. Journalists who posted links did nothing wrong. Posting a link to publicly available information is not doxxing, just as posting a link to an online article is not plagiarism,” said Koo co-founder Bidawtka.

“3. Leaving gaps without answering journalists is bad. 4. Creating a policy that suits you from scratch is worse. 5. Changing your posture every other day is inconsistent. 6. Posting a video of an unidentified car on Twitter with the car license plate showing – how is that allowed?” he added. The Koo co-founder said that Twitter trashed rooms overnight to control conversations.

“He added that there are other things Twitter has done in the past week that is not democracy. You have to speak up,” he said.

In promoting Koo, Bidawatka said that the self-developed microblogging platform is the best alternative to Twitter.

“This place is what it is because of you and millions of other users like us. Let’s not fuel this guy’s ego,” he added.

Bidawatka also said: “And guess what! Suddenly. Almost suddenly, #ElonIsDestroyingTwitter was removed from the trending section. Twitter is a publisher. No more platforms!”

This comes a day after Twitter suspended the accounts of about half a dozen prominent journalists who covered the social media site and Musk for violating rules against “doxxing.”

Banned accounts include those of The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, Mashable’s Matt Binder, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, political journalist Keith Olbermann, Aaron Rupar, and Tony Webster. both independent journalists, the New York Times reported.

The social media platform showed “account suspended” notices on the accounts of these journalists on Thursday (local time).

Twitter also updated its policy update on Thursday (local time), which prohibits the sharing of “live location information, including information shared directly on Twitter, or links to third-party itinerary URLs.”

Meanwhile, the United Nations and the European Union have threatened to sanction Musk over actions taken by Twitter.

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