WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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They dodn't need to go thru them- just unban everyone banned for "harassment", "hate speech" and the other standard BS excuses they used.
Or just unban everyone but CP or spambots and say "everybody now gets a 2nd chance"