ChiGoose

I see we have transitioned from “FREE SPEECH” to “OWN THE LIBS!” How very predictable

Poor little snowflake needs to be in a safe space or else he’s gonna have a tantrum.

So much for free speech…

Are you saying that basically every journalist who covers Musk doxxed him at the same time and were therefore banned?

Oh no! Someone was publicly expressing constitutionally protected free speech! Ban them for the sake of freedom!

Looking forward to the Twitter Files on Musk banning his critics. I’m sure it will be quickly forthcoming and transparent.

Wheeee! More free speech! Ban any links to a potential competitor! (Mastodon sucks, by the way. The best thing Elon could do is send people there to see how much it sucks).

I do enjoy that “owning the cons” isn’t a thing because liberals don’t spend all of their time fuming about conservatives. In fact, unlike the current iteration of the GOP, liberals generally support policies that would help the conservatives. But in any case, I hope they all enjoy worshipping free speech apartheid emerald mine guy here.

Absolutely. He is 100% within his right to ban anyone who points out that he got hair plugs or that Tesla is tanking or that he’s a spoiled child who doesn’t understand what he’s doing. He’s not violating any laws or causing any actionable harm by being a big baby with a soiled diaper throwing a tantrum. But it doesn’t mean we can’t all just point and laugh at him.

Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company I’m sure the Muskateers will find a way to defend this but it really looks like a pouty spoiled child taking revenge against people he doesn’t like.

Free speech! Free speech! All hail Elon, champion of free speech!

He claims not to know. Other accounts similar to his (covering Musk or right wing media) have also been banned with seemingly no explanation. This isn’t at all surprising. Buying Twitter was never about free speech.

Ah, that makes sense. Just banning anyone on the Elon beat. Very hardcore. Very free speech.

Huh. I thought we were finally getting free speech on Twitter…

What a shame. What other elderly narcissist is going to score eight goals against people who are scared that they might be drinking polonium tea if they defend him?

Guy who simply posts videos of right wing media now perma-banned with no explanation. Free speech for me, but not for thee

The announcement video is incredible. Absolutely no notes. Just pure perfection.

Agreed. But maybe this is a good reason that best practices would be that content moderation policies shouldn’t be decided at the whim of a single individual. Going after the stalker is good. Going after the creator of ElonJets because of the stalker is frivolous. The lawsuit would have no merit, no chance at success, and no purpose other than to harass a private citizen for something they didn’t do.

Right. I’m not a big fan of rich people using lawyers and frivolous lawsuits to punish people by making them have to spend money to defend themselves against baseless claims. I’m not sure where the ElonJet guy lived but hopefully wherever it is, there are strong anti-SLAPP laws.

I totally understand that. But maybe it’s actually a good case that these kinds of decisions shouldn’t be up to just one person.

That’s really messed up and they should go after that guy. I don’t see what lawsuit he could file against Sweeney that would have a chance at success though. As I said, you can just follow the plane on one of the many tracker apps out there. Banning tracker accounts from Twitter won’t stop people from following celebrity planes if they want to.

I mean, we’re talking about a social media site, so not sure too much actually matters. But yeah, if there’s really no danger, why ban it? Also, it looks like the ElonJet account is back up, so no idea what’s going on. It clearly violates the new policy.

Apparently the shut down of the plane tracking accounts is due to a new content moderation policy: Private information and media policy Most of it is pretty standard anti-doxxing stuff but the big change seems to be banning real time location tracking, even if it is readily available public information. I think most would agree that real time tracking of individuals on the street or in their cars would be bad. But I’m not convinced that plane tracking (or boat tracking in the case of Yacht Watch) is particularly dangerous to an individual. The plane lands at an airport behind the security checkpoints and then the individual will get in a car and leave. Unless there are a lot of stinger missiles in the hands of private citizens out there, I’m not sure what the danger is. Not to mention the fact that there are publicly available resources to do this anyway. People can just use an app for it (I like to use one to track flights into O’Hare for fun).

Well, that certainly is something.