I think Elon has given up any pretense of being open to criticism, so an action like this seemed fairly inevitable.
Yeah, I don't know why anyone thought Twitter would be a "bastion" of free speech. His history proves otherwise.
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#33“My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk” Elon Musk, 2022-11-06
Did he really say that?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456
If you didn't already, now you know what his commitment is worth.
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#34Where else can N628TS be tracked? It looks like some of the most widely used flight trackers do not provide this data.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's already public. It's just ported over to Twitter.
it should not be linked to VIPs and tracked like this, it's almost as creepy as stalking what this guy did. reported all his accounts.
> it should not be linked to VIPs and tracked like this
Why not?
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#36Looks 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.
No post body was provided.
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#37Looks 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.
Twitter's accounts payable is telling a different story.
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#38Just 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
I think it's because they've largely proven to be uninteresting or unsurprising. The two big reveals early on were:
- The Biden family tried to get what is effectively revenge porn taken down from Twitter before he was elected.
- Twitter had labels for high-profile accounts like libsoftiktok that meant "don't ban this person without some higher-up approval"
In both cases they were deliberately presented in a misleading way. When the first one was revealed it was suggested this was evidence that the White House was censoring Twitter - but Donald Trump was the president at the time. In the second case (quite amusingly, tbh) Weiss suggested Twitter was suppressing libsoftiktok, when in fact it was deliberately treating the account with kid gloves - i.e. she got it completely backwards. I think people switched off after this, if there was anything truly scandalous they would have lead with it and wouldn't have bothered trying to stoke outrage with the two I mentioned.
What I do find interesting is something that isn't really getting much coverage - that Bari Weiss seemingly has access to some internal admin tool. In some screenshots she's posted this tool has a "Direct Messages" section, suggesting she has been able to read private DMs - a bit alarming.
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#39Where else can N628TS be tracked? It looks like some of the most widely used flight trackers do not provide this data.
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#40I 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…
The data is public. Does taking publicly accessible data and tweeting it make it creepy? Or is more a problem to you that all the data is public?
You could hide within this, say, you know, take a first class flight somewhere on a commercial plane. The price you pay for having your own plane is that your plane's movements are public.
I personally support all of this data being public, it's generally a great way to gain information on clandestine government activities.