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Well it seems like Elon is reneging on his previous commitment to free speech. - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456
Just so we're clear: You'll be totally in favor of maintaining the accounts of anyone who routinely posts the location of others, including yourself, right? Because that's not stalking at all... right?
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Flight information provided to the FAA is considered public information. This is funded with taxpayer money, and is not privy to privacy.
To put it in such a highly accessible form is an invitation to crackpots. Crackpots and mobs generally do not get incited by FAA travel logs that requires some diligence to track.
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.
this is still quick judgement, you don't know why the account is suspended
I understand this move, but need to point out how hypocritical this is for Mr. Free Speech. Basically, his entire tenure so far has been "free speech for me and the accounts that were rightfully banned for violating the TOS!" in public, and then "we'll deboost anyone who doesn't pay me a subscription" and "let's selectively release internal comms in a misleading way to make normal company operation in good faith seem…
Doxxing someone's location != "free speech" by most people's definitions.
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My hope was for a more transparent Twitter. I guess that's out the window too.
I dunno, with all of the recent leaks, Twitters internal workings have all been made public. Sounds pretty transparent to me!
Yeah Elon might be a dictator throwing his weight around (I probably would too) but if there is due process and transparency so be it.
This doesn't appear to be the case. They state in the rules that publicly available information can be shared.
I'm sure we will find out one way or another what direction Twitter heads.
It seems odd to me that you would create an account tracking anyone's plane. That doesn't seem to benefit anyone but people have weird hobbies.
The jxcksweeney personal account[0] is now suspended, along with the Russian oligarch tracking account[1], the NASA aircraft tracking account(!)[2], @GatesJets, @ZuccJet, and @USAirForceVIP. 0. https://twitter.com/jxcksweeney 1. https://twitter.com/RUOligarchJets 2. https://twitter.com/NASAPlanes
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/16031245489032478...
also, the journalist reporting this is now filtered from search
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Doxxing someone's location != "free speech" by most people's definitions.
When you are using the public airspace, airwaves, or waterways there is an obligation to identify yourself to others.
When the Elon/Twitter transaction went through, there were a lot of HN comments stating that they thought that this might actually mean a more open, "freer" Twitter. When I mentioned that Elon had already been using his power unilaterally to re-platform personal allies like Babylon Bee and Ye, I got all sorts of pedantry about the difference between suspension and banning, more pedantry about the Ye reactivation happ…