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Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by rnk »

patrec wrote: post #30
jonny_eh wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly find it impossible for anyone to defend this self-serving behaviour.

Actually, the new policy against live-tweeting people's whereabouts (with the obvious exceptions) and enforcement of a 24h delay would have been pretty easy to defend, had it preceded the account suspension rather than the other way around.

But it was clearly a last minute deal with no accounting for things like talking about public speakers, concerts. And talking about such things is a big part of what reporters do. So now they can add and judge who is a legitimate journalist. It opens up entire new cans of worms.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by jacquesm »

KyleJune wrote: post #52

And... It's suspended again just now.

Yep. I wonder what went on behind the scenes there. I'm sure the next owner of Twitter will be happy to share all that in 'The Twitter Files'. They'll also be a lot more interesting than the present installments.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by KyleJune »

jacquesm wrote: post #60

No they didn't. Or if they did they banned it again after their new figleaf rules were enacted. You can't make this up, what a mess.

They banned it again about 8 minutes ago. I was scrolling through the linked thread when it got suspended and the tweets disappeared.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by jacquesm »

SXX wrote: post #39
ipqk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted."

According to these rules journalists are no longer allowed to publicly share information about Elon going to visit his Saudi creditors since it's wont be public event. Nice!

That's the one case where I can see this as a good thing (for the journalists). Just keep them away from the embassy...

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by meepmorp »

jacquesm wrote: post #60

No they didn't. Or if they did they banned it again after their new figleaf rules were enacted. You can't make this up, what a mess.

That's exactly what happened - I clicked earlier, and then again just now. It was unbanned then rebanned pretty quickly.

This is amazing.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by SXX »

ratg13 wrote: post #54
spamizbad wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This change is going to make it very easy to shut down OSINT accounts that geolocate people.

Devils Advocate: why would that be a bad thing?

Because there is actual war going on?

Information about Russian government aircrafts or Putin's oligarchs private jets leaving country can be important in real time. Musk banned those too.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by surrealize »

SXX wrote: post #39
ipqk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted."

According to these rules journalists are no longer allowed to publicly share information about Elon going to visit his Saudi creditors since it's wont be public event. Nice!

They can, just not in real time.

"Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy."

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by kelnos »

ceejayoz wrote: post #14
mjn wrote: post #11

This appears to be the new policy: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1603165959669354496

“live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available” This makes “I am at watching ” a violation.

Reading the thread shows that this is explicitly allowed:

> "You can still share your own live location on Twitter."

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