Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

Post by zeebeeblebrox » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

thwoeiuro23432 wrote: post #203

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 has made the rule-clear: real-time doxxing is banned on Twitter. I'm surprised people think creepy stalking is free-speech.

Post by philosopher1234 » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

wankle wrote: post #182

jasmer wrote: post #37

'New Elon / New Kanye' I think is disillusioning for a lot of people. It's one thing to see a random celebrity or business person lose their marbles, but there was (and continues to be) high hopes for Elon at least with Tesla and Space X. I absolutely understand someone trying to shake things up for PR, but I can't see how he's winning here.

Perhaps he's trying to set straight what Twitter had become, a crazy progressive activist dark haven.

Post by hndamien » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

javajosh wrote: post #222

beachy wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>Then came the pedo guy comments. I cut him slack, he must be tired/strung out, he'll apologise. He never did. Same. It's one thing to use a slur like that in some personal dispute; but this was against a hero who had saved children , and on a public forum. I've lied to myself that this was a minor dispute. And it would be that if he'd apologized. But the lack of apology is a very serious red flag of character. Impul…

Post by frakkingcylons » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #344

hackcasual wrote: post #2

Difficult 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"

Well in many cases doxing is considered illegal: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119 There are many shades of gray, of course.

Post by Waterluvian » Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 3:17 AM UTC

browserman wrote: post #28

It remains very funny that he paid forty-five billion dollars for the privilege of humiliating himself daily with these petulant temper-tantrums. Amazing bit.