I wrote about Bluesky’s attempts to ban Jesse Singal earlier today. While I think the mob targeting him are a bunch of creeps, I understand why it’s happening. His reporting threatens their worldview and violates their sense of right and wrong. He is literally public enemy #1 on that site because he threatens the verities of a cult.
The same can’t be said for Michael Kruse. Who?
Michael Kruse is a senior reporter at Politico who says part of his job as a reporter is to be open to talking with people on all sides. So this summer he opened an account on Bluesky though he didn’t stop using his account on X. It all seemed to be going okay until a few days ago when he got a message from Bluesky saying his account had been shut down.
“A Bluesky account you control,” read the unexpected message in my inbox the other day from the Bluesky Moderation Team, “has…
