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Countless literal death threats didn't do it. https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1519167734910619649?... But when it starts getting that close to kids, maybe you'd start to take it more seriously too.

That is publicly available information. How hard is to grasp that?

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I believe the worst thing you can be is a hypocrite. We can disagree about value systems, but if you don’t practice what you preach then I have no reason to respect you.

I don’t care if Twitter decides to allow this kind of information or not, but don’t claim safety and then disregard the safety of others. Don’t claim free speech and then silence speech you don’t like.

Elon is clearly doing what’s best for Elon, and that’s fine too. But I won’t tolerate him pretending he’s doing anything other than putting himself first. And I’ll make my own choices based on that. If I think my interests align with his, I should stick with him. But practically none of our interests align. We don’t share any common problems.

Elon doesn’t think he needs me or anyone else (and he has so much wealth he really doesn’t). I wouldn’t count myself lucky to be in the same lifeboat as him on the off chance he decides I’m dead weight and tosses me overboard.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Your home location is also public info. Publishing it on twitter is still doxxing and always has been.

"Doxxing" isn't illegal and never has been.

That is location dependent. NL, Spain and China (and possibly others) have anti-doxxing laws. That said: tracking a plane is not doxxing.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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This feels like tweeting something like "hanging out with at " is now a bannable offense? Am I missing something?

It's a hastily-written rule designed to ban Things Musk Doesn't Like while allowing things he does. See also the exception: > In addition, you may not share private media, such as images or videos of private individuals, without their consent. However, we recognise that there are instances where users may share images or videos of private individuals, who are not public figures, as part of a newsworthy event or to fu…

Man, I wouldn't want to be in the team of lawyers charged with writing this rule.

"You have 24 hours. You have to write some rules that make my private jet's flights that are public information available on a public website in real time disallowed, while also making Hunter Biden's hacked nudes allowed. Go."

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

#185
Why the weird Elon hate over this? My understanding was that this broke Twitter TOS and that he was leaving it up as a gesture of good faith. If he wants to take it down to keep things consistent across Twitter, why the hate? I know the Elon hate boner on HN is strong but this seems absurd.

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Always has been.

People keep saying this but I have never found it to be the case for me. I meet and collaborate with amazing engineers on Twitter, and often get help with tricky problems. I have also had a lot of success using it to spread the word about my own projects.

Agreed, Twitter when properly curated was very useful.

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https://twitter.com/SpaceXJet And his own account: https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney

Why is Jxck's personal account banned? What did he do? Applying bans retroactively seems very unfair. (Unless this is an automated mistake.)

That's the whole point: this is all just a figleaf, Elon Musk has a long history of going after people that show him up in every way possible. Next up: the lawsuit. Wait for it.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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legal asked us to ban it again after they learned elon's goal. which was to shadownban-2.0 the account when needed to delay news of certain travel. he came up with the idea when we pointed out other smaller accounts started to post the info and we were considering flagging them as bot last week.

wait this is wild, so much for free speech 2.0

We might get tired of so much free speech. Hang on a second.... I'm being told I'm actually sick of it right now

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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

They did this so they could say they banned it due to their new rule against location sharing, rather than Elon's personal vendetta.

So is any tweet that includes the location of someone else now free game to take down and potentially ban? "Paul Pelosi said something very interesting when leaving the SF court house..."
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