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

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Post by Taniwha »

egberts1 wrote: post #542
GoofballJones wrote: post #370

Earlier 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…

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No they weren't they were tweeting the new location of the @elronjet account - all this has been through the courts a bunch of times now: posting a link is not the same as posting the content it points to

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

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Post by Operative0198 »

I think the people conflating this to an absolute free speech issue are missing the bigger picture. Sure Elon is doing this now for personal reasons just like he refused to reinstate Alex Jones' account.

But having public data on a website with few eyeballs doxxing your jet vs groups of coordinated users live broadcasting, retweeting, verified accounts amplifying the same data on a social media app. These are two different things.

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

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Post by polygamous_bat »

xwolfi wrote: post #359
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…

Why twitter though, it's quite small and not very influent except maybe in some countries like the US, could have bought Weibo and reached a huge market for potential clients and way more ways to make money. America is probably saturated, it's not even like it wants to buy Musk products, and Musk feels so much more like a Chinese boss than the head of an american social platform having to navigate impossible compromi…

> could have bought Weibo and reached a huge market for potential clients and way more ways to make money.

I really don't think Elon would do well in quietly taking orders from CCP.

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

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Post by epistasis »

darawk wrote: post #609
GoofballJones wrote: post #370

Earlier 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. Do you have evidence of that? He claims they were reporting the location.

I'm not sure why would anyone would trust what Musk says without independent confirmation...

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

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Post by memish »

Elon's content moderation decisions so far:

- no swastikas

- no continuous real-time doxxing

The people who shrieked loudest that Elon would allow hate and safety threats on Twitter are now shrieking that he's banned hate and safety threats on Twitter. @DavidSacks

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

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Post by Taniwha »

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…

Yeah I think he's lost it - all that money seems to really have gone to his head. Really he should be doing one thing well (pick cars or rockets) and enjoying life - spending hours a day personally banning people he doesn't like on twitter can't be good for his mental health - frankly the emperor has no clothes

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

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Post by giantrobot »

anigbrowl wrote: post #412

Echoing David Sacks, he's now tweeting that the journalists in question were tweeting 'assassination coordinates.' https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603587970832793600 Starting to think there might be some national security issues with one guy being the nominal linchpin of the US space program, satellite internet, and global public messaging infrastructure.

If Musk dropped off the face of the Earth tomorrow it wouldn't meaningfully affect operations at SpaceX. If anything it would probably increase productivity there.

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

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Post by emodendroket »

barbariangrunge wrote: post #296

> 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 seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it could be

I don't think it seems like a good rule. Not only is the information public but I think it is not hard to dream up reasons why it would legitimately be in the public interest to report on the comings and goings of someone's private jet.

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

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Post by EFreethought »

ramesh31 wrote: post #470
paxys wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He has lost 40% of his net worth (over $110 billion ) so far this year largely because of this one deal. Truly one of the most disastrous business decisions of all time.

TBF anyone who has their net worth almost entirely tied up in the US stock market has seen their wealth decrease by nearly 40% in the last year.

True, but Musk is supposed to be smarter than us mere mortals.

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

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Post by kevingadd »

lambic2 wrote: post #481
anigbrowl wrote: post #412

Echoing David Sacks, he's now tweeting that the journalists in question were tweeting 'assassination coordinates.' https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603587970832793600 Starting to think there might be some national security issues with one guy being the nominal linchpin of the US space program, satellite internet, and global public messaging infrastructure.

But aren't the coordinates of his plane public anyways? And wouldn't shutting down ElonJet account be enough, why all these journalists' accounts as well?

Yeah, it was public ADS-B data. A lot of the suspended journalists never even posted his location, they just posted about the situation or the supposed stalker incident.
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