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His narrative being petty things like "my pronouns are impeach/Fauci", since that's definitely something to spend $44B for.

I think the predictable right on cue overreaction is hilarious. Remember: Don't feed the trolls It's petty, I find it tasteless, but I still must admire how easily he plays everyone.

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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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at the risk of a downvote or three, this is a crackling log in the dumpster fire of twitter. major brands and advertisers jumped ship a month or two ago and very few have returned to see how elons checkmark 2.0, sink-dragging, maximum-hard-work "meet me on the tenth floor" late-on-the-rent leadership have panned out. by all accounts, if your brand is safely evacuated from twitter, @elonjet is proof you probably dodge…

> major brands and advertisers jumped ship a month or two ago

i've heard this before, is it backed by data? where is the data? anecdotally:

active: https://nitter.snopyta.org/pepsi/status/1603075671881879556#... https://nitter.snopyta.org/beatsbydre/status/160309134171347... https://nitter.snopyta.org/Ford/status/1603080041138733056#m https://nitter.snopyta.org/TOMFORD/status/160308497345149337... https://nitter.snopyta.org/SNICKERS/status/16026650177693286... https://nitter.snopyta.org/Oreo/status/1603042472866861068#m https://nitter.snopyta.org/Disney/status/1602725046463696903... https://nitter.snopyta.org/Samsung/status/160257553489808998... https://nitter.snopyta.org/ProcterGamble/status/160092252229... https://nitter.snopyta.org/AppleMusic/status/160245283600402... https://nitter.snopyta.org/OppenheimerFilm/status/1603027027...

inactive: https://nitter.snopyta.org/CocaCola https://nitter.snopyta.org/Charmin

or maybe I'm confusing "posting" with "spending on advertising"?

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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It's worth noting that Twitter dissolved the Trust and Safety Council after that tweet was posted: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-disbands-trus... It's unclear if Ella Irwin still works at Twitter, but giving everything going on I strongly suspect there's no one to moderate against Elon personally banning an account he does not like.

She just got the role, why would she no longer work there? Presumably she was put there to enable this , after Yoel Roth abruptly left (and was subsequently defamed as a pedo by Elon, what's with the guy and pedophiles).

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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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> I understand this move, but need to point out how hypocritical this is for Mr. Free Speech. Where's the hypocrisy? Musk said he wanted to broaden the speech allowed on the platform, not allow speech of all kinds. > "let's selectively release internal comms in a misleading way to make normal company operation in good faith seem like a liberal conspiracy." Maybe try getting your info from a non-leftwing source. There…

Musk has stated several times he wants "free speech" and when pushed further, mostly talks about "speech that is not at odds with the law". So yes, that is pretty inconsistent with banning an account which did nothing illegal. Assuming it was Musk who issued it. >from a non-leftwing source Can you people stop going "left wing right wing" for one day and see things for what they are instead of this infantile black-whi…

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> serious question, does free speech extend to doxing Boy, what a complicated and serious question. We should form a committee to discuss exactly where our community places reasonable boundaries and adjudicate blurry edge cases. Who could have predicted that a policy like "if it's legal, it's allowed" would lead to problems? Surely no one with a few dozen billion dollars to set on fire would be that unbelievably stup…

ok point taken but I think this might be a case of removing general public access to all flight data, instead of some rule change on twitter.

Why not ban TMZ, 75% of whose output is about telling people where celebrities were spotted 5 seconds ago.

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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Elon himself, on https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376 : > By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. Was the account violating any law?

Your very own tweet disproves what you're saying: "I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law." Even back in April he was not saying he was only going to censor illegal speech. Anyways, since Elon acquired twitter he's made it a major talking point to say that twitter is still moderating by the same rules as before: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 "Twitter has had a massive drop in r…

The owner of the ElonJet account published those leaked communications, and that account hasn’t been suspended, so there’s some inconsistency there. Zoe Schiffer, who has published many Twitter leaks this month, has not been suspended.

It would be useful if Musk adopted transparency and shared the rationale behind this banning, along with all internal communications regarding it.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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I'm curious how they're internally spinning the justification. It doesn't seem to be a violation of Twitter's Automation Rules [1] but ostensibly could be a violation of their harassment rule [2]. It's a bit of a stretch. The litmus test will be if/when the internal comms get released as part of the Twitter Files. I won't hold my breath. [1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom... [2] https://…

It's a pretty clear-cut policy violation: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info... > Our primary aim is to protect individuals from potential physical harm as a result of their information being shared, so we consider information such as physical location and phone numbers to be a higher risk than other types of information. > Under this policy, you can’t share the following types of private in…

>following types of private information

Except it's not private information.. it's all public information. And it's only his "location" when he is in the plane.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #740

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Elon himself, on https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376 : > By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. Was the account violating any law?

Your very own tweet disproves what you're saying: "I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law." Even back in April he was not saying he was only going to censor illegal speech. Anyways, since Elon acquired twitter he's made it a major talking point to say that twitter is still moderating by the same rules as before: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880 "Twitter has had a massive drop in r…

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

He specifically said he would not ban it as part of his commitment to free speech.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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I'm curious how they're internally spinning the justification. It doesn't seem to be a violation of Twitter's Automation Rules [1] but ostensibly could be a violation of their harassment rule [2]. It's a bit of a stretch. The litmus test will be if/when the internal comms get released as part of the Twitter Files. I won't hold my breath. [1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-autom... [2] https://…

It's a pretty clear-cut policy violation: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info... > Our primary aim is to protect individuals from potential physical harm as a result of their information being shared, so we consider information such as physical location and phone numbers to be a higher risk than other types of information. > Under this policy, you can’t share the following types of private in…

> There is not a single person claiming free speech is being violated here.

I can think of one person who claimed it:

> My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane

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