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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#21

Just an observation, but it seems that the Twitter files revelations are getting drastically less press than everything else Elon does. It almost feels like kill the messenger

Please explain the noteworthy parts of a private entity giving political entities special treatment. I’ll take my answer off the line. Thanks.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#22

I support free speech and consider myself a libertarian, having much in common with the populist-libertarian-right, and the civil-liberties-left. But tracking a flight like this on a regular basis to this intrusive a level strikes me as downright creepy and personally invasive. Are you going to track the locations of his vehicles and where they park next? An alternative argument - if we're going to do it to him, mayb…

>unless they are politically connected

You might as well say 'everyone'. Anyone rich enough to use, let alone own, a private jet is almost by default politically connected.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#23

Looks like he's sprinting towards the endgame of bankruptcy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twit...

Definitely not going bankrupt though people would be happy to see it.

Advertisers have come back and the staff is muuuuch smaller than before.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#24

I think Elon is/was trying to bring back the "glory days" of the internet where free speech was the driving force behind tons of early internet projects. Seemingly everyone was onboard with the internet being humanities bastion of free speech and that had to be protected at all costs. Then the wild west internet was developed into a city and well, you just can't walk around shooting your gun wherever you want anymore…

How exactly is he working toward free speech being a driving force? From what I can tell, he's just banning different people.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#27

Well it seems like Elon is reneging on his previous commitment to free speech. - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

Serious question: Is there an alternative narrative here? People are acting like Musk changed course for no reason, but are there no real claims that the account perhaps had started to engage in other rule-breaking content?

Note that I'm asking for an actual steelmanned argument for why there's no possible defense of Musk here, not why people have high priors to just assume there's no defense.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#29

Looks like he's sprinting towards the endgame of bankruptcy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twit...

Definitely not going bankrupt though people would be happy to see it. Advertisers have come back and the staff is muuuuch smaller than before.

A lot of that staff he got rid of were exactly people necessary to run large ads sales operation.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#30
Looks to me like Twitter is financially doomed, and he's doing some combination of messing around with a broken toy and courting favor with like-minded people on the way to bankruptcy.
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