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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#111
It's pretty clear Elon wants everyone that has insulted or crossed him or otherwise proven him wrong to suffer some consequence to alleviate his bruised ego. Fauci, ElonJet, and more

Think I'm wrong? Let's see if he'll go after Jack Dorsey in the future for recently correcting him on going after CSAM.

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#113

Aside from watching many accounts critical of Elon get banned or suspended, it’s been entertaining to occasionally look at Twitter’s front page logged out, because: 1) If you have no cookies, Twitter constantly recommends that you follow Elon Musk 2) “Elon Musk” appears to be permanently set as a trending topic for logged-out users

I believe #1 can be explained by him already being (and having been, pre-acquisition) one of the top followed accounts on Twitter, same as Trump during his days.

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post #71

Twitters relevant policy: “Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private information (such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so. Learn more.” Now.. his fight information is technically “public” but in that same sense, phone numbers and street addresses…

They broke all these rules when releasing “the Twitter files”

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#115
post #59

I think Elon has given up any pretense of being open to criticism, so an action like this seemed fairly inevitable.

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That's not a great analogy. Nobody "placed" any sort of tracking on his jet. The plane publicly broadcasts its location information out in the open. Somebody just looked at the information and tweeted it.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #71

Twitters relevant policy: “Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private information (such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so. Learn more.” Now.. his fight information is technically “public” but in that same sense, phone numbers and street addresses…

I can’t tell if you are trolling or actually that delusional. Either way, this information is public.

Semantics around banning or suspending pretty much work out to the same.

If you are trolling congrats, I took your bait. It’s a slow Wednesday here in Colombia.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #68
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 gai…

Public data doesn't give you licenses to act unethically and immorally, laws are oftentimes poorly written.

Why is republishing this information unethical and immoral? (Your words)

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#119
post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think you have to ask yourself which of the following is more likely: 1. @elonjet suddenly started to engage in some extremist/TOS-breaking behaviour 2. Elon Musk changed his mind Given that #2 has happened a few times already, I think that's a pretty reasonable assumption.

Oh, so you can provide another example of Elon directly saying he would do X and then turning around and doing not-X a month or so later with no sort of intervening events that would justify an about-face? I can't think of any.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

#120
post #18

Where else can N628TS be tracked? It looks like some of the most widely used flight trackers do not provide this data.

I read it's because the FAA has a list of flights that cannot be displayed on sites like that, called LADD: https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd

> The Administrator shall, upon request of a private aircraft owner or operator, block the registration number of the aircraft from any public dissemination or display, except in data made available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial flights of the owner or operator.

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