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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by eggy »

c54 wrote: post #29

The 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".

Oh, just like when pre-Musk Twitter banned NY Post/journalists over a true story about Hunter Biden's laptop. I don't see how an anti-doxxing rule banning people tracking Elon Musk's whereabouts is worse.

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Post by paradox242 »

If only we could get some transparency about the decisions to censor users on Twitter. It could be released as a set of files, a little at a time, to a prominent syncoph- I mean independent journalist. That way we can really dominate the news cycle for a week or so and get some attention on this thing.

The only problem is what to call it. Twitter Periodic Information Bulletin? No doubt accurate, but a little on the nose and we're already cutting too deep into our precious 280 characters.

Any ideas?

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by georgeg23 »

lantry wrote: post #76
georgeg23 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

This seems to be giving him more credit than he deserves. If he's trying to get republicans on board, all he needs to do is keep crowing about free speech and cancel culture. Actually making any changes to twitter isn't required. IMO he banned journalists that criticized him... because they criticized him. occams razor

Trump talks a lot lately about Mars and a nuclear defense shield in space...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-promises-to-pl...

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by xupybd »

c54 wrote: post #29

The 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 was excited to see his pro free speech approach and this ban wave disappoints me.

I'm actually okay with bans, suspensions and all the rest. But only if there is the following

  - A redemptive path back 
  - Due process 
  - Transparency
  - Fair application of the rules.
These recent bans have had none of that. The rule change should have been announced before the bans. There should have been warnings to remove the tweets before instant bans. The accounts should be given the opportunity to comply with the rules and come back.

While I'm sad Elon has taken this turn I still don't think Twitter is any worse off. They did this before just to a different group. At least they appear to be making progress on removing child exploitation.

I don't know if the platform can survive the disruption and unpredictably that Musk has introduced but from a moral standing, removing child exploitation wins a lot of points with me.

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Post by macintux »

birdhouse wrote: post #68

Collectively, I wonder how many tens or hundreds of millions of hours are burned, scrutinizing Musk, Twitter, Tesla, and every move Musk makes. Don’t like Twitter? Don’t use it. It’s like a Twitter/Musk addiction. I don’t care for for social media or Musk. Don’t understand why he lives in everyone’s mind, rent free.

Facebook matters even if I’m not on it. Twitter matters even if I’m not on it.

What billionaires do with the public square matters to our future.

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Post by QuantumSeed »

One possible effect of his craziness is that the banks that helped finance the buyout, thinking that Musk is driving the value of Twitter down to zero, will agree to sell the loans back to him at a big loss. Better to get 50% of their money back than nothing at all.

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Post by retrac »

beachy wrote: post #64
afavour wrote: post #22

So 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…

Same. I knew he was arrogant etc., but some degree of that almost comes with the territory. And he is prone to intense idiosyncratic interpretations that lead to unusual behaviour. But I also got suckered into thinking the man had some sort of primarily altruistic drive. Maybe he once did. Celebrity tends to ruin even good men.

Re: Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by CloudRecondite »

kevinh wrote: post #69
CloudRecondite wrote: post #24

Is Musk revealing his true self or in the midst of some life crisis? He’s in a downward spiral that’s rapidly gaining speed.

Musk has a long history of attacking journalists who write stories critical about him or his company, and he famously called a guy who helped save a bunch of kids a pedophile for criticizing his ill-advised efforts to help out. When he was a kid, he was pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a fellow student's father's suicide, and Musk's father was not on his son's side. This is not new behavior.

I’m aware of some of it, the frequency now is what’s alarming

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Post by Zigurd »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #56
fluidcruft wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Which somehow has something to do with a car being stalked.

Alleged stalking. He filed no police report, and the photo of the car was taken far from any airport. The report is as suspicious as what was claimed.

Odd that, for such a vivid and threatening incident, nobody wanted to sign their name to a document where lying would be a crime.
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