It's because they linked to the ElonJet site. He said as much;
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603573725978275841
>Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else
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#212Yikes Musk is quickly burning through a lot of public good will. For me it started with trashing Dr. Fauci a week or two ago which was really dumb for a supposedly smart person. And now these mainstream journalists. As the marketing face of Tesla Musk is doing a lot of damage. No wonder he had to sell TSLA shares today as they were tanking.
Stuck by him through the Pelosi attack but Fauci was the limit, huh?
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Which is bad, because the supposed policy has a specific media exemption.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
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#214Yikes Musk is quickly burning through a lot of public good will. For me it started with trashing Dr. Fauci a week or two ago which was really dumb for a supposedly smart person. And now these mainstream journalists. As the marketing face of Tesla Musk is doing a lot of damage. No wonder he had to sell TSLA shares today as they were tanking.
They are tanking because he is selling.
Twitter is going to be Musks' undoing at this rate.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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. Calling it "Hunter Biden's laptop" ignores the fact that it was hacked information provided by a foreign adversary to sow division and influence an election. That is not comparable to sharing publicly available in…
> it was hacked information provided by a foreign adversary to sow division and influence an election.
Every single one of these claims is false. Hunter Biden gave his laptop to a repair shop, the repair shop shared its contents with the New York Post and the FBI. At no point was any foreign agent involved, at no point was anything "hacked"
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#216Yikes Musk is quickly burning through a lot of public good will. For me it started with trashing Dr. Fauci a week or two ago which was really dumb for a supposedly smart person. And now these mainstream journalists. As the marketing face of Tesla Musk is doing a lot of damage. No wonder he had to sell TSLA shares today as they were tanking.
Stuck by him through the Pelosi attack but Fauci was the limit, huh?
The statements about Vernon Unsworth should have been enough for anybody.
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#217If 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 n…
TwitterGate? The Twitter Papers? TwitterLeaks? In all seriousness though the real Twitter Files will be about Musk running the company into the ground not this slow drip of right wing garbage.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Twitter was long dead. It just had no prospect of making money, but slowly degrade into more “heavy VF” propaganda machine it had been for years, and recent series of events is its heart attack at Leviathan timescale.
I don’t understand why people say this: Twitter wasn’t lucrative in the way that Facebook is, but they made a healthy profit in 2019 and probably would have made a small profit in 2021 had it not made settlement payments. Their revenue per employee was close to $1M, which is about 2/3rds of Google’s. It’s not clear, either then or now, that Twitter “had no prospect of making money.” By most metrics, it was a potentia…
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#219Difficult not to see this as anything other petulance. It's Musk's site and he's free to do whatever he wants with it, but this seems squarely against "any legal speech will be allowed"
Not that this is a good defense, but I think "genuinely scared for his or his child's safety" is a real possibility. Especially if he (rightly or wrongly, no comment there) thinks someone threatened his child... well, protecting your children is one of the more powerful instincts humans have, one of the handful powerful enough to outweigh an ego like Elon's. Plus he has to be at least a little frazzled by Twitter hav…
I like how he’s all of a sudden someone who pretends to spend any time with his countless children from countless wives.
A family man isn’t a brand he’s been going for up until now.
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