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I believe “lil X” is referring to his son, X.

His son is named X?? Isn't that the name of his first company that he abandoned? X.com . Man this story's boring. I hope Lil Nas X's jet is ok.

Yup, the dude who's making fun of neo-pronouns is the one who named his kid X Æ A-Xii Musk.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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It's only a problem if you want Twitter to survive as a platform where they at least try to uphold something akin to free speech. If you want it to become irrelevant then I guess it doesn't matter, and there is no problem. But if Elon says he wants it to be a place of free speech and he doesn't behave in a way that backs that up according to public opinion (which is highly subjective) then there will be some issues r…

Indeed I gave Twitter a second chance because of this and this makes it doubly hard to defend. I already cared little about defending the cult of personality thing.

Twitter was manageable, even if it was a lot of work, but now it is just done.

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legal asked us to ban it again after they learned elon's goal. which was to shadownban-2.0 the account when needed to delay news of certain travel. he came up with the idea when we pointed out other smaller accounts started to post the info and we were considering flagging them as bot last week.

wait this is wild, so much for free speech 2.0

So why are his haters still so angry? They are against free speech and supported the right for a private company to moderate how it wants. That's what they've been saying the past several years. Elon has come around to their position!

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Countless literal death threats didn't do it. https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1519167734910619649?... But when it starts getting that close to kids, maybe you'd start to take it more seriously too.

Boohoo. Elon Musk got a few dozen death threats.

Everyone he targets his army at gets thousands of death threats each. And Elon has a very, very, long list of past targets.

If Elon wants the death threats to stop he should stop instigating them against others.

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Oh cool so he'll immediately start acting on all of the other stalkers everywhere too, right? Obviously

The same dude who was the elonjet account has accounts for many other celebrities planes, Bezos, Drake etc. They were all taken down

I think we can all agree that celebrity stalking via plane tracking apps ought to have been prioritized above all the other safety issues Twitter is still fumbling around on ineffectually.

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I don’t think it’s crazy for Twitter to ban stuff like this. The damning part is just that it explicitly goes against the stuff Musk has repeatedly said!

Yeah, the hypocrisy is what annoys me the most.

Not only does it contradict his direct statement about not banning @elonjet, it contradicts his statements about twitter policy being decided by a committee, as well as his numerous other statements about allowing free speech in general.

The policy itself I think makes some sense, although it's interpretation is ripe for abuse, just posting any random picture of someone in real time could be interpreted as a violation.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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legal asked us to ban it again after they learned elon's goal. which was to shadownban-2.0 the account when needed to delay news of certain travel. he came up with the idea when we pointed out other smaller accounts started to post the info and we were considering flagging them as bot last week.

> to delay news of certain travel That does not sound unreasonable to me at all. In other words, the idea that some posts might warrant a delay for a range of issues or to allow for investigation. That, to me, again, sounds very sensible. In the case of the travel plans of certain high-profile people, you know, with so many crazy folks out there, yes, sure, give the news enough of a delay so the person can safely get…

This is complete idiocy. Celebrities and billionaires don't get special speech rights. There are very good reasons all aircraft are tracked publicly. If Elmo's plane ever goes down or gets hijacked he might appreciate why. According to Twitter's new "policy" any person who takes a picture of someone in front of the Eiffel tower or any recognizable place can be accused of doxxing and banned.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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legal asked us to ban it again after they learned elon's goal. which was to shadownban-2.0 the account when needed to delay news of certain travel. he came up with the idea when we pointed out other smaller accounts started to post the info and we were considering flagging them as bot last week.

Did Legal also tell you to disseminate said information to the public with your rando character handle account made 20 minutes ago?

Thank god we have people like you looking out for the little guy.

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wait this is wild, so much for free speech 2.0

wait so you're saying doxing is on the same level as dissenting the government? one thing is broadcasting personal information about a citizen, one is protecting a citizens right to object to actions by their government. collecting public information is still doxxing. most doxxing involves only public information as it happens across the internet. edit: a downvote is not a rebuttal, sorry, try again.

It's based on publicly available information, that is required to be publicly available by government regulation, specifically for the public good.

https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certifica...

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