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ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by breakingcups »

drooby wrote: post #71

Twitters relevant policy: “Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private information (such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so. Learn more.” Now.. his fight information is technically “public” but in that same sense, phone numbers and street addresses…

Explain to me the difference between an indefinite suspension and a ban please.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by randiantech »

seanw444 wrote: post #31
DHPersonal wrote: post #5

I think Elon has given up any pretense of being open to criticism, so an action like this seemed fairly inevitable.

Yeah, I don't know why anyone thought Twitter would be a "bastion" of free speech. His history proves otherwise.

Are you referring to Twitter right?

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by LastTrain »

OrvalWintermute wrote: post #17

I support free speech and consider myself a libertarian, having much in common with the populist-libertarian-right, and the civil-liberties-left. But tracking a flight like this on a regular basis to this intrusive a level strikes me as downright creepy and personally invasive. Are you going to track the locations of his vehicles and where they park next? An alternative argument - if we're going to do it to him, mayb…

We're all Libertarians aren't we. Your arguments aside, Musk said he would not ban this account because he believed in the free speech issue. So he's a liar and a hypocrite. May I ask what drives you to use your free time to run to the defense of a billionaire, who has the most popular social media tool on planet earth at his disposal?

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ancapsfascists wrote: post #77

Good to see I'm vindicated in the prediction that Musk has zero interest in free speech, he only has interest in his narrative being dominant on Twitter.

His narrative being petty things like "my pronouns are impeach/Fauci", since that's definitely something to spend $44B for.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by BobbyJo »

rideontime wrote: post #47
DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely not going bankrupt though people would be happy to see it. Advertisers have come back and the staff is muuuuch smaller than before.

Judging by the quality of ads that are being presented on twitter these days (when I see any at all), this is very obviously not true, no matter how much Elon claims otherwise.

Have to agree with this. The ads I see now are for the kind of things temporary mall kiosks sell. Hard to believe they are raking in ad dollars from those.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by BlargMcLarg »

czbond wrote: post #59
DHPersonal wrote: post #5

I think Elon has given up any pretense of being open to criticism, so an action like this seemed fairly inevitable.

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A car doesn't emit nearly as much as a leer jet. If it was just a matter of 'rich people doing rich things without influencing others', it'd be an entirely different story.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by breakingcups »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #61

A lot of hypocrisy from Elon here, but I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to taking down these accounts that are tracking people as it's so close to a Doxing or could lead to something bad happening. A few years ago, we were all mad at Uber for their "God View" which tracked celebrity locations -> https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-38314832

Uber used their own private, proprietary information. Flights are public by design. If he had a problem with that, he should not own a jet.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #61

A lot of hypocrisy from Elon here, but I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to taking down these accounts that are tracking people as it's so close to a Doxing or could lead to something bad happening. A few years ago, we were all mad at Uber for their "God View" which tracked celebrity locations -> https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-38314832

Ironic, given Elon now has access to everyone's Twitter data, including location data and private messages - and he's already selling or giving it to others like political figures he wants to influence, mark my words.

Re: ElonJet Is Now Suspended

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Post by perihelions »

He's also posted internal Twitter screenshots, allegedly showing a VP was personally involved in @ElonJet moderation. (In the context of an earlier moderation action -- visibility filtering ("VF")).

- "A screenshot of what he claimed was an internal Slack channel showed Ella Irwin, the person appointed to replace Yoel Roth as Twitter’s new head of trust and safety, asking a “Team” to “please apply heavy VF to @elonjet immediately."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-account-following-elon... ("Twitter Account Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet Gets Shadow Banned")

https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney/status/1601793881355739143

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