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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
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#92So this is how Twitter goes out: not with a bang but with a seemingly endless stream of stories about the little ways Elon is ruining the service each day. Just staggers me that Elon could have just… not done any of this. And yet here we are. He’s had to sell billions in Tesla stock to finance this ongoing mayhem, this is surely going to be up there as one of the greatest examples of hubris in modern business.
Elon's slide into max doucheness is a real shame. I used to tell my kids he was one of the most admirable people around for jump starting the EV industry (yes, I know he didn't do it all). Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did. Now he's become like a meme of himself, or perhaps just himself as he always was but now right out there, and it's not go…
Maybe three or four years ago I thought that musk was basically something like the second incarnation of Howard Hughes. Some sort of eccentric high tech aerospace industry misunderstand genius.
Now I can clearly see he's just some guy who is both smart and also a raging narcissistic asshole who came from daddy's apartheid era emerald mine money.
Turns out that shitposting your way through life like an edgelord 14 year old boy on the internet is not an admirable lifestyle unless you are a hardcore musk stan.
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#93The wave of bans from the muskjet thing has been quite dramatic. It'll be interesting to see if the people who've been lauding musk for his supposedly pro free speech attitudes will reckon with what's been happening in actuality, or if they'll just accept this as "freedom for me but not for thee".
I think he was legit shaken by the incident with the kook stalker and his son. Which is certainly understandable. People need to dial the hate way down. Way, way down.
And the rule change was quite clear that linking to the jet tracking was prohibited.
That all said, he's gone too far here. And it's an unwinnable fight anyway.
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#94> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended. Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" b…
> I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" button on stuff he doesn't like.
It’s amazing to me that despite despite several data points showing Musk would be capable of doing this, people are still giving him the benefit of the doubt.
That’s the power of personal branding.
Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
#95> While we don’t know what’s going on here yet, it’s possible that the suspensions are the result of automated content moderation gone awry. Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended. Automation gone crazy. I'm likely to believe this explanation rather than Musk personally hitting the "suspend" b…
Wouldn't be too sure about that: > Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
If the algorithm is suspending accounts that shared screenshots Elon doesn't like (matching via checksum) then it's banning regardless if the account belongs to a journalist or not.
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#96If you're claiming to be a free speech absolutist you absolutely must eat your own cooking.
I never believed the Free Speech Absolutists in the least. As you notice, the rancor that generally accompanied such posts is curiously absent.
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#98He’s just signaling, the same smug snark “everything that entertains me is good” mentality, and people who probably ought to have a sufficiently functioning brain to detect that he isn’t on anyone’s side have decided instead that he is on theirs, and it’s “their turn now”, and basically the middle school cafeteria drama show becomes the story.
It’s truly embarrassing what we’ve become. Or, if you like, what we’ve remained, even though we damned well ought to know better by now.
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Elon is certainly awful for all that he’s doing, but couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company instead of taking legal action to ensure he did it? People up top were eager to cash out at the expense of all the employees under them. That’s equally disgusting to me.
> couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company There are very few accounts here on HN that will sympathize with such an extremely uncapitalist, anarchist take.
It seems more syndicalist leaning to me, but yes. HN seems an odd place to bemoan a company taking the offer of a huge premium on its stock price.
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Explain like I'm a 5 year old Canadian please.
Read here about Elon and then the Space Development Agency
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career