I love the daily seethe posts about Musk. Surely He's finished this time. Nothing will happen. Normal people don't care and journalists are too addicted to Twitter t o actually leave.
Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
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#522For those of us who wondered what form of governance Twitter 2.0 will have, I think it's now safe to say it won't be based on any particular set of rules, principles or ethics. It will be totalitarian -- whatever Elon feels like at any particular moment in time.
Twitter has a very clear policy - anything that doesn't incite violence is allowed.
And the test is simple: "Does it make me want to punch someone in the face"?
Not "me" as in the average reasonable person, "me" as in Elon Musk.
If you post something that makes Elon want to punch you in the face, you will be banned from his blog.
"I personally wanted to punch Kanye, so that was definitely inciting me to violence. That’s not cool."
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#523> 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 c…
No, he banned a bunch of journalists for doing their jobs.
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#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
He has lost 40% of his net worth (over $110 billion ) so far this year largely because of this one deal. Truly one of the most disastrous business decisions of all time.
TBF anyone who has their net worth almost entirely tied up in the US stock market has seen their wealth decrease by nearly 40% in the last year.
Not at all. the S&P 500 only down 20%, dow down just 10%.
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#525> 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 c…
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned. The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year…
> The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot.
He paid for that privilege.
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#526Im not a Musk stan, but which of those are 'prominent journalists'? Is there any of those left in the US or Anglosphere? Those who lied for 8+ years about nonexistent WMDs to facilitate the Iraq war are still at Twitter, Facebook etc - complete with their official blue check marks. Apparently, that is not 'misinformation'. And those people are still 'journalists'.
Its amazing how people can downvote such a comment when not even 20 years passed since Iraq war.
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#527Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is normally not how cults work—and yes, I am claiming elon is a cult. When a cult leader fails to deliver, or otherwise issues a prediction that never materializes, the cult member usually grow stronger in the cult’s convictions. This is kind of a counterintuitive psychological phenomena but it has been demonstrated quite a few times. There may be something of a cognitive dissonance driving this. It is that afte…
I would be interested in seeing some citations to back up that claim. The famous Jonestown incident was a case of people having left everything they knew, relocated to an isolated place in a different country, etc. And even then, some members of the cult were forced to drink the poisoned kool-aid and some drank it not knowing it was poisoned. Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a flavored bev…
> the way a cult generally arranges to control people is to cut them off financially, socially, etc.
So...cancel culture? Criticize the current #thing and get cut off financially and socially.
That would make #thing a cult, no?
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#528Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned. The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year…
> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Come on now. They were linking directly to the tracker that Sweeney was banned for, not just reporting on the story about it. It was a childish petulant doxxing on purpose and they got treated the same as Sweeney.
They were banned for including a link to where Sweeney moved. I wonder if everyone who posts a link to these journalists will get banned too.
If it were an algorithm, everyone in Twitter would be banned by tomorrow. I hope it works.
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#529Someone posted yesterday that the beginning of Musk's Twitter buy happened shortly after elonjet refused his $5000 offer to buy the account. The rational part of me says he surely couldn't have spent $45 billion dollars to shut the account down, but it's kinda feeling more and more true as the story continues. It's like this is the 21st century version of the San Francisco story where Yung refused to sell their house…
The story https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Crocker%27s_Spite_Fe...
Amazing. Thanks for sharing!
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#530So 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.
If Musk does end up taking out Twitter, it’ll be up there with electric cars and rebooting the private space travel industry as a service to humanity. Twitter is an awful platform that relies on cognitive hacks to elevate the worst people (across the spectrum) to prominence. Do you remember the last few years? We got to the point where respectable news outlets were reporting on cable news the insane takes that were f…
Elon Musk is much like Henry Ford.
"In 1918, Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent.[76] A year and a half later, Ford began publishing a series of articles in the paper under his own name, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America.[77] The series ran in 91 issues. Every Ford dealership nationwide was required carry the paper and distribute it to its customers. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Antisemitism_and_Th...
I think Musk bought Twitter to serve as his own platform, to spread his ideas and to suppress those of others.