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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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

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Post by whodunnit »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #966
whodunnit wrote: post #963

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He acts like a-hole, but then expects unquestioning adoration. Very typical narcissistic personality disorder symptoms. Narcissists are made not born, by other narcissists, thru treatment that is dehumanizing and inhumane from a very young age. We should give him our compassion and empathy, but not allow him any power. Power in the hands of a narcissist is dangerous, as the orange man showed us.

> but not allow him any power Agree, but I mean, how do you do that?

Walk away. Let Twitter fail. If you stick with someone who abuses power you reward the behavior.

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

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Post by the_optimist »

andrewflnr wrote: post #59
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"

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…

This is indistinguishable from psychotherapy nonsense, palm-reading, soothsaying, entrail evaluation. There is zero factual basis for this “assessment,” and if you believe there is and buy into this, then you are only fooling yourself.

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

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Post by eatsyourtacos »

PM_me_your_math wrote: post #964
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #895

It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics. He has now a lengthy and growing history of this type of behavior, so it was 100% foreseeable. He could just come out and say that its his twitter and he can do what he wants, but no, because he also wants to be seen as a 'defender of free speech'. He acts like a-hole, but then exp…

Blocking those who want to give the general public up to-the-minute location information on him and his family is "silencing his critics?" Nothing could be further from the truth. You have no fundamental right to track Elon Musk, just like I would have no fundamental right to track the whereabouts of you and your family. Disagree? When do you let us attach a tracking device to your conveyance? Few, if any, would be c…

GPS tracking on his plane is public information. So you can spin this shit any way you want but you are just wrong.

>up to-the-minute location information on him and his family

Nice exaggeration- you make it sound as if people are posting his real-time location at every moment from his phone or something.

All the plane info tells you is where he is in the sky, and then basically what city he landed into.

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

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Post by pms »

93po wrote: post #958
cwkoss wrote: post #956

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I speculate he's been taking a lot of amphetamines to work long hours and is currently in a state of mild psychosis.

Glad we're having rational evidence based discussions around a stranger's medical status.

Given that the author clearly wrote it's a speculation, I don't see a problem here. It's low probability, but it could be the case.

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Post by rsync »

klyrs wrote: post #896
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #895

It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics. He has now a lengthy and growing history of this type of behavior, so it was 100% foreseeable. He could just come out and say that its his twitter and he can do what he wants, but no, because he also wants to be seen as a 'defender of free speech'. He acts like a-hole, but then exp…

It's a comfort to me that the Constitution forbids him from running for president.

But just imagine - we could have had Schwarzenegger…

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

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Post by dang »

trasz2 wrote: post #820

Predictably, this story, despite almost a thousand upvotes, is nowhere to be found on HN front page. Daily reminder that HN is a commercial entity and works hard to avoid annoying their potential business partners.

It was on the front page for 6 hours, and btw the reason for that was that we specifically turned off the flags on it.

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

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Post by snotrockets »

rsync wrote: post #975
klyrs wrote: post #896

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a comfort to me that the Constitution forbids him from running for president.

But just imagine - we could have had Schwarzenegger…

He seems like a nice old man, but wasn’t that great of a governor.

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

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Post by Method-X »

whodunnit wrote: post #963
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #895

It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics. He has now a lengthy and growing history of this type of behavior, so it was 100% foreseeable. He could just come out and say that its his twitter and he can do what he wants, but no, because he also wants to be seen as a 'defender of free speech'. He acts like a-hole, but then exp…

> He acts like a-hole, but then expects unquestioning adoration. Very typical narcissistic personality disorder symptoms. Narcissists are made not born, by other narcissists, thru treatment that is dehumanizing and inhumane from a very young age. We should give him our compassion and empathy, but not allow him any power. Power in the hands of a narcissist is dangerous, as the orange man showed us.

Not going to take a position on the latest Twitter drama; just want to point something out:

>Narcissists are made not born

I have a background in abnormal psychology and this is false. Narcissists are either born or the behavioural disorder forms in very early childhood. I'm on mobile right now but will find a source and come back to edit this reply.

Again, not taking sides or even care much about the Twitter thing. Just wanted to point that misconception out.

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

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Post by trilbyglens »

alangibson wrote: post #737
h11h wrote: post #600

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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.

This. Since when is current location of a well known person doxxing? AFAICT, Elon made that up to suit himself.

Wasn't it literally invented to ban the yacht tracker account?

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

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Post by whodunnit »

Method-X wrote: post #978
whodunnit wrote: post #963

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He acts like a-hole, but then expects unquestioning adoration. Very typical narcissistic personality disorder symptoms. Narcissists are made not born, by other narcissists, thru treatment that is dehumanizing and inhumane from a very young age. We should give him our compassion and empathy, but not allow him any power. Power in the hands of a narcissist is dangerous, as the orange man showed us.

Not going to take a position on the latest Twitter drama; just want to point something out: >Narcissists are made not born I have a background in abnormal psychology and this is false. Narcissists are either born or the behavioural disorder forms in very early childhood. I'm on mobile right now but will find a source and come back to edit this reply. Again, not taking sides or even care much about the Twitter thing.…

“Narcissistic features can come from childhood environ­ments characterized by excessive deviations from ideal rearing, where either neglect/abuse (not enough caring attention) or over-pampering (too much caring attention) is present (Stone, 1993).”

https://estd.org/narcissism-consequence-trauma-and-early-exp...

“Narcissism tends to emerge as a psychological defence in response to excessive levels of parental criticism, abuse or neglect in early life. Narcissistic personalities tend to be formed by emotional injury as a result of overwhelming shame, loss or deprivation during childhood.“

https://www.farahtherapycentre.co.uk/blog/narcissism-and-the...

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