This comes across as especially petty of Elon Musk, to do it to another prominent dotcom-boom rich-guy. (Even if it was an accident of automation this time, it's easy to believe Musk personally ordered it.)
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#382The silicon valley VC class failed a basic history lesson - never prop up a dictator thinking your are his equal and will be spared from having to kiss his ring. They are all going to have to fall in line or be labeled the enemy.
The All In podcast crew must be sweating right now.
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#383Trying to come up with a theory that makes sense. This is my best effort - Elon Musk as the Beast Rabban. Rule with an iron fist, brutal, harsh decisions and insane demands. Then, step out, to be replaced by a leader who is demanding but comparatively much more reasonable and lenient. Remaining staff and users will appreciate the new leader, though they might have resented the change if they weren't first shocked by the Beast Musk.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.
> not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation.
Those methods are presented as non-exhaustive examples. "Technical or non-technical means" resolves to every possible method.
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#385Okay. That's weird. I commented on this thread and now I can't log into twitter. It doesn't say I'm suspended, it just tells me @retrocryptid doesn't exist when I try to log in. Then intarwebs are weird, yo.
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#386Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…
Notice that TikTok isn't on the list. Seems like Musk crafted the rules in a way to ensure that one of his favorite Twitter accounts is safe from this rule about posting links to other social media.
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No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: > Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. That was very casual and not at all an example of relentless advertising for competitors. It's also extremely dubious that PG was trying to evade Twitter enforcement.
Let me get this straight. Troll buys Twitter, says Twitter will promote "free speech". Re-instates scumbag accounts because people have the right to be scumbags. BUT you can't talk about 1) his jet, 2) other websites that are you know kind of similar to Twitter, 3) coke fiend laptops.
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#388I am in shock.
I don't really care that much about anything on Twitter, but this implies either 1) we're not going to get to Mars from SpaceX or 2) the level of capriciousness is in excess of my tolerance for life support/other critical operations.
I hope someone else steps up, because I'd like to get to Mars.
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there was always an emperor
No, in the past there was a committee. There is zero evidence that the previous CEO of Twitter personally judged who was and who was not to be banned.
We know that was Vijaya and Roth. Bringing up Dorsey is transparent sleight of hand.
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#390I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.
Entirely anecdotal but I did notice a marked shift towards even more erratic behaviour and dissonant, often contradictory utterances after his second disclosed Covid bout back in March this year and since then.