We’ll never know and I’m sure some will say the average person doesn’t care, but the number of car sales Tesla is losing must be staggering
Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
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#592Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned. The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year…
> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Come on now. They were linking directly to the tracker that Sweeney was banned for, not just reporting on the story about it. It was a childish petulant doxxing on purpose and they got treated the same as Sweeney.
How is it "doxxing" to use public flight data? Am I missing something here?
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The people who cheered Musk for his "pro free speech" attitude don't actually believe or want free speech. They want free speech for themselves and censorship for people they don't like. See the terrorist attacks against Drag Queens.
How many journalists who didn't dox Musk's plane have been censored and suspended?
Several. Some got banned for posting screenshots of an LAPD statement, or just discussions of other journalists being banned.
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#594> 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…
I have this crazy idea.. If only there was.. now hear me out
Some type of team at Twitter that could look at more tweets.. the resources to look at ALL of Twitter.., systematically, for these issues of “trust” and “safety”
You could the create a very clear policy, and work to remove any doubt such a policy was consistently enforced!
I know crazy idea..
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Exactly. He has the free speech right to ban them from his platform. He was hoping they'd stick around long enough for him to do that.
I hope you forgot to use the tag.
I assumed it was obvious, which made an ass out of me. (You are doing just fine, though.)
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#596Musk says (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603591994244071424): "7 day suspension for doxxing. Some time away from Twitter is good for the soul …"
Maybe it's time for him to follow his own advice.
And maybe stop doing polls, especially ones he doesn't like the result of and must "redo":
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#597So 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.
What if he's slowly trashing it so that it's dead for the 2024 elections but not so dead so quickly that something else has replaced it by 2024?
It'd arguably be nice to have a national election without Twitter.
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#598Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is normally not how cults work—and yes, I am claiming elon is a cult. When a cult leader fails to deliver, or otherwise issues a prediction that never materializes, the cult member usually grow stronger in the cult’s convictions. This is kind of a counterintuitive psychological phenomena but it has been demonstrated quite a few times. There may be something of a cognitive dissonance driving this. It is that afte…
I would be interested in seeing some citations to back up that claim. The famous Jonestown incident was a case of people having left everything they knew, relocated to an isolated place in a different country, etc. And even then, some members of the cult were forced to drink the poisoned kool-aid and some drank it not knowing it was poisoned. Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a flavored bev…
You may have already seen it, but one of the most famous cases of religious failure leading to deepened faith in some of the adherents is the Great Disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
One of the groups that formed out of it is still active today more than 150 years later.
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#600> 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…
It's also worth noting that revealing real names and workplaces of anonymous accounts is still allowed. The doxxing that is banned is a specific class of doxxing that isn't often considered to be doxxing.