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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #550

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VF = visibility filter = shadow banning

Shadow Banning is alot more narrow than general VF. VF could be used for reasons like maximizing time in the app, encouraging high value activities, etc...

If my reach is being artificially limited without my knowledge it's still shadow banning. It doesn't change anything if the purpose is selling more ads instead of personally disliking me .

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #572

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I'm flabbergasted by the overwhelming response that this account should be allowed "in the name of Free Speech". This isn't a free speech issue. This is a personal safety issue. It is a personal attack towards Musk. As high profile as he is, and the amount of controversy surrounding him, he certainly has a target on his back. I consider that account a form of Doxxing, and I can't think of any good reason it should be…

You’re “flabbergasted”? This is publicly available information. What exactly is the safety threat with this twitter acct?

It may be public information but how easy is it for the common Joe to look up a specific person's flight information?

I'm genuinely curious because if it takes a few steps and knowing a couple of bits of information then maybe that is a problem. I mean, the FAA records or wherever they're getting the information doesn't have it labeled "Elon's Jet", does it?

The Twitter account likely makes it dead simple for any bloke off the street to know where it is.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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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...

This FEELS like some kind of fraud - sell to me or I'll devalue your assets.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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post #420

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I don’t mean to be a antagonistic but as the owner of twitter why would we expect he not have the right and ability to ban anyone he likes? When it was publicly held there was some accountability to the shareholders as part of the public. Now he can literally carry a sink around wherever he wants

> why would we expect he not have the right and ability to ban anyone he likes? We don't expect that. He absolutely does have the right to do that. Pointing out his banning of the account simply demonstrates his free-speech absolutist hypocrisy. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

Following someone around and posting their location to the world would be considered doxxing in other cases.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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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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Again, take this s*t to Truth Social where fact free conspiracy BS belongs.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Yeah I agree that Elon is full of shit, but there's a little lie in here that needs to be addressed: > normal company operation in good faith But it wasn't "normal company operation" because they completely disregarded preexisting company policy for dealing with political figures. Here are political figures that they didn't ban (who were inciting violence) > 20. In June 2018, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, “#…

Playing devil's advocate in Twitter's defense: Is there any public information about how twitter handled the two examples you provided at the end there? Do we know for sure they actively chose not to take any actions? If not, I'm not sure it is fair to claim they completely ignored them. They may have limited their reach via some kind of shadow banning. Action like that is harder to notice than an account ban. Also,…

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