ElonJet Is Now Suspended • Hacker News Board

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by Xelynega » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

ffggvv wrote: post #202

isn’t this basically like doxxing? aren’t the people criticizing this move the ones who would be in hysterics if someone did this to a journalist or politician they like? especially if it was a woman of color or whatever preferred group

No, it's not like doxxing. Doxxing is when you find someone private details and publish them publicly.

This account took public information from flight tracking information and published it publicly.

That's why it's not the same as publishing the home address of a journalists who is a woman of colour.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by dylan604 » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

grumple wrote: post #280

danso wrote: post #187

Coincidentally, the @TweetTweaker account — which AFAIK was the first to call wide attention [0] to Elon buying up twitter shares right after his $5k offer to @ElonJet was rebuffed — is currently suspended. Its last public interaction was around Nov 6, 2022 [1] https://archive.vn/WLXQJ [1] https://twitter.com/GreatPaul_Smith/status/15894241378646097...

It's pretty amazing that one guy tweeting public info made Elon spend 44 billion.

yeah, it seems to me that Elon Musk has the emotional stability of a teenager hitting puberty, only filthy rich

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by prottog » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

WhackyIdeas wrote: post #246

saboot wrote: post #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.

Didn’t Jack Dorsey invest a billion dollars of his Twitter shares in Elon Musk’s takeover?… Hard to imagine him going after him. But then again, Elon is hell-bent on alienating everyone. I was planning on selling our Land Rover and getting a Tesla but I changed my mind because a lot of people will associate me with the guy or think I agree with him. Still.. amazing cars.

> Still.. amazing cars.

Are they really that nice? I've been in a few but never owned one. I hear a lot about fit and finish issues unbefitting a car of that price range.

What does a Model S get you that an S-class doesn't, or a Model 3 against, I don't know, an Audi A4? Is it just all about that electric drivetrain? I don't yet have a strong preference on electric vs. ICE, but I would gladly pay more to have a car without the "slap an iPad in the middle for every UX" design of the Tesla.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by kibwen » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

p0pcult wrote: post #197

watwut wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeeah, when people who criticized Musk literally once have to flee their houses, due to rampant and false accusations of pedophilia from Musk friends, we can totally talk about free speech.

Wow, got a source for this?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitter-files-yoel-roth/...

"Twitter’s former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk’s campaign of criticism against him [...] things took a dark turn over the weekend when Musk appeared to endorse a tweet that baselessly accused Roth of being sympathetic to pedophilia [...] A person familiar with Roth’s situation told CNN threats made against the former Twitter employee escalated exponentially after Musk engaged in the pedophilia conspiracy theory."

Typical Musk MO to randomly accuse someone of pedophilia.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

potency wrote: post #218

ancapsfascists wrote: post #77

Good to see I'm vindicated in the prediction that Musk has zero interest in free speech, he only has interest in his narrative being dominant on Twitter.

He's also restored countless accounts that were banned under previous ownership. While banning ElonJet flys in the face of being a "free speech absolutist", he's certainly demonstrated that he's generally in favor of freer speech.

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Post by JadeNB » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

yusefnapora wrote: post #185

pastor_bob wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, maybe Twitter instituted a new rule (not public) that you can't track Elon Musk's flight patterns. Follow the rules, people.

Great advice. Everyone should be sure to follow all the rules, especially the secret ones they don't know about.

I'm pretty sure (but who knows, when it comes to discourse around Musk?) pastor_bob was joking.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by ck2 » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

Dude has to pay $1 BILLION per year in financing.

He can do whatever he wants, for now, until his debtors own it in a year or two.

Everyone needs to use this time to build better alternatives.

Personally I'm hoping everyone just goes back to their own blogs and Twitter, Facebook, etc. goes the way of AOL

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by mtmail » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

stephc_int13 wrote: post #305

Has Elon ever heard of the Streisand effect?

There's so many Twitter/Elon stories in the news cycle right now I'd be more worried he causes artificial little scandals to distract people from other scandals. Not sure what that strategy is called.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by renewiltord » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

HN has an outrage problem. It's not new. It goes back to the "vote for funding" thing that Moxie won. And it continues with this week's "Google upped my renewal fee" ragebait. And before that it was some claim that one of the FAANGs was exfiltrating network traffic surreptitiously (enthusiastically corroborated by HNers) until discovered to be false.

In recent memory, the only time the outrage was justified in hindsight was when ICANN had that issue with .org domains. The rest of the time it has seemed to me that the comments come up with 2 min hate and then emerging facts turn out to be different.

My priors are, therefore, quite high that the outrage is usually unjustified. The boy cried wolf too much.

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Post by michael1999 » Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

ActorNightly wrote: post #303

IgorPartola wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember all those comments on HN for how right Musk is to decent free speech and how this is definitely going to improve Twitter? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Lets not pretend that just because some people happened to be right, that is an indicator of some information that they had. Most of the hate towards Twitter came from hate towards Musk.

People who tell a lot of fibs tend to get a reputation as liars. This isn't magic. There's no fancy latin name for the error of giving known liars the benefit of the doubt, but there should be.