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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

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Post by wittycardio »

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.

Yup I don't like Elon but I assumed twitter would mostly stay the same with a bit more trumpism. I was fine with that but after the sheer stupidity of the last few weeks I'm going to have to leave.

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Post by malshe »

m3kw9 wrote: post #177
thinking4real wrote: post #160

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Exactly, sometimes coming here seeing people just jump to conclusions pisses me off. How about wait for more detail comes out before calling Elon a douche bag for banning these people because he felt like it

The article has Musk’s tweet where he says the same rules apply to ‘journalists’. What exactly are you waiting for?

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Post by cmcaleer »

https://xkcd.com/1357/

I wonder if the people who thought this xkcd was the ultimate rebuttal against those who think that these platforms should be more neutral are rethinking their stance on having a few very wealthy, very powerful people control major speech dissemination platforms.

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Post by ceejayoz »

jeremyjh wrote: post #209
andrewflnr wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It seems more likely the story about his kid is just another lie to try win the moment. The LAPD statement is careful not to state that no crime has been reported or under investigation, but to leave that interpretation open. They are “aware of the tweet.”

Wouldn't be the first time, either.

https://in.mashable.com/culture/42675/internet-slams-elon-mu...

> Musk tweeted, "My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame."

> Soon, Elon's ex-wife Justine Musk revealed the real story and stated that it wasn't the techie but she was holding the child. She wrote, "A SIDS-related incident that put him on life support. He was declared brain-dead. And not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him."

If Musk wants to turn over a new leaf and decide free speech is secondary to protecting children, he should consider banning the accounts that have whipped up bomb threats against childrens' hospitals of late.

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Post by wpietri »

DiNovi wrote: post #156
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…

he was always like this, he just had pr people. read the article his ex wife wrote in like 2012 about how weird he was

I read it years ago and it's such a jaw-dropper that it has always stuck with me: https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...

Think about a wedding. Think about a bride and groom happily dancing, looking forward to their life together. And what does Elon say at this moment? "As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, 'I am the alpha in this relationship.'"

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Post by barbariangrunge »

> 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 could be

Let’s try to make a comment that creates less outrage than most…

This is why it would be interesting to post public information about politicians collected from the online spyware that tracks all of us. It would rapidly motivate new laws that at least somewhat improve privacy.

This always happens when rule makers are personally affected by a problem: the problem starts getting attention

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Post by m348e912 »

jimmygrapes wrote: post #25

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You trolling? I don't care for Olbermann all that much but it's hypocritical for Twitter under Musk to ban him. If there are new "doxxing" rules perhaps a warning is reasonable instead of an immediate ban

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Post by xcrunner529 »

xeornet wrote: post #279
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.

Not sure what indications we have that Twitter is "going out". User numbers are higher than ever. He unbanned a lot of people that were also banned previously for no reason. I think a lot of the outrage comes from the "unfairness" now being dished out to those people with whom the outraged agree with...

His advertising has plummeted, the service is now in extreme debt and he’s not even paying the bills lol. There’s plenty of evidence if you bother to look.

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Post by macintux »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #245
macintux wrote: post #115

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Facebook matters even if I’m not on it. Twitter matters even if I’m not on it. What billionaires do with the public square matters to our future.

I really want to encourage people to recognize, as I did just as strongly when Musk didn't own Twitter, that it isn't by itself "the public square". The site is designed to make you feel like you have to be on Twitter, that no other site could replace them in your daily life, that you'd better go check your feed right this second or you might miss out on some major world event. But none of that is true! It's an illus…

Twitter is where the world goes today to talk about things that matter (and obviously a lot of things that don’t). There may be something else that takes its place in the future but today it matters what happens to it.

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

kodyo wrote: post #148
gonzo41 wrote: post #77

This is what will kill twitter. Out of the 10% who do the most tweeting, journalists are a big part. Elon is killing his biggest asset and replacing it with Nazi's. Insane!

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Right, corporate journalists are are the enemy! That's why I get all my news from Karen on Facebook and John Q Anon on Twatter, they've done their own research didn't you know?
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