wow, he really didn't like being booed
Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
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#442At the start of this saga, I pointed to Napoleon as an example of what happens when hyper-ambitious and capable people meet an unyielding challenge, > It seems that when you are touched with greatness, you end up believing that you can do anything. And far more often than not, you can. > > Right up until the moment you can't. But never in my wildest dreams I could have imagined this turn of events. Forget Napoleon's…
Isn't it a Sun Tsu line, "Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake?"
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#443Elon Musk has now given an explanation, sort of.
> They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603587970832793600
(None of the journalists banned did that: even the ones referencing ElonJet referenced stale data)
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#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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
He has probably actually been radicalized by Twitter though, instead of just pretending to be. I suspect that he is actually emotionally invested in his chosen side in the “culture war” and feels genuinely compelled to “own the libs” and whatnot.
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#445So 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.
Step 1: get real drunk and/or high. Step 3: have billions to burn. Step 4: you know the rest.
2 - you bait the line.
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#446While I don't agree with the bans, here's a counter argument.
Will it be ok to ban someone if they tailed a car every day and live-posted the driver's location on Twitter? One can argue that someone with has a plane has more resources to protect themselves. At the same time, they face more threats too.
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#447> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply. > It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old. It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it c…
> This is why it would be interesting to post public information about politicians collected from the online spyware that tracks all of us. It would rapidly motivate new laws that at least somewhat improve privacy.
I don't think so. The New York Times demonstrated this three years ago, nobody really cared: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...
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#448As an early Tesla investor (from early-mid 2010s), I find Elon's behaviour change over last 2-3 years pretty toxic and inhumane. From the days of fighting california for covid lockdowns to now hiding behind "free speech" doing whatever he wants anyways (which is sucking up to republicans and russians and who knows who else). I want to say this isn't 100% unexpected (some people show true behaviour openly only once th…
Welcome to the same conclusion that the labour movement came to two centuries ago :)
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it was calling rescuers in the Thailand cave pedos. Seriously, I recommend anyone interested in a heartwarming story to read the Wikipedia page on the Thailand cave rescue. Countries all over the world sent teams of experts to save those boys. Hundreds of people helped out. It just shows how most people in the world are good, but at the same time how the media focuses its coverage on a small, sad little man tw…
To be clear: He called one person "pedo guy". That person had been insulting his / SpaceX's attempt to help. There's plenty to criticize Musk about, but this is clearly a case of "can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". Don't get into a flame war and cry to the legal system when the other guy is better at it than you. The dude deserves no sympathy.
Of course he deserves sympathy: he called Elon Musk out and in return got showered with the most disgusting personal attack. That alone should have caused Musk to be booted from Twitter. The fact that he wasn't is an oversight - in my opinion, of course.
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#450Yikes 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.
I've generally been a supporter up until now, with some notable exceptions that others have mentioned.
His recent contradictions in regards to his commitments to free speech have certainly burned through a lot of my good will.