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I'm an IT guy, I know how to hook into some public APIs for flight trackers and have some experience with the Twitter APIs to make scheduled posts on a timed interval.He offers the teen 5,000 to stop
Only Congress is barred from creating (criminal) ex post facto laws; private companies are free to change the rules and behave badly.Yes now he has. But he created the rule, then banned people for tweets they made before the violation of the rule. The backlash seems to be the only reason he reinstated the accounts of the journalists, who were simply reporting on something he had done.
Well yes. But I'm still going to criticize him for it. Especially somebody who made such a big deal about having an issue with Twitter censorship.Only Congress is barred from creating (criminal) ex post facto laws; private companies are free to change the rules and behave badly.
Well yes. But I'm still going to criticize him for it. Especially somebody who made such a big deal about having an issue with Twitter censorship.
The problem with your analogy is that this account isn't new and hasn't changed anything since Musk took over. It's been reporting the movements of his jet for a couple years now.I was discussing over lunch with my cousin earlier and used this analogy/hypothetical to describe what the situation is like.
If the movie theater in my town was run by panel of staunch evangelicals, and they were blocking/banning tons of movies from being shown there on the grounds of what they thought was offensive, I would have a problem with that. If I were an uber-rich guy, I would be trying to make a bid to buy and take over the movie theater and remove that kind of censorship. One of my selling points (to reach out to other like-minded people) would be to describe myself as an "artistic expression advocate", "anti-censorship absolutist", and that I was going to "protect movie-making freedoms at all costs"
If I succeeded in taking it over, and the first thing my opponents did was to try to immediately put in the most vile, disgusting, things they could find, knowing that it would eventually cross my comfort-level line and make me say "yeah, this is my theater, I'm not screening that here" just so they could "prove a point about how Rob is a hypocrite", that really wouldn't be an entirely fair critique, and certainly wouldn't negate the existence of the previously existing problem I was trying to solve in the first place by taking it away from the previous leadership.
Let’s recap:
Twitter suspends the nations oldest newspaper- Twitter is good, Twitter is wise
Twitter suspends the Presidents press secretary for sending a direct message they didn’t like. - Twitter is good, Twitter is wise
The owner of the "elonjet" account was suspended for "doxxing". The reporters were supspended for criticizing the new site overlord and pointing out that the same account was still active on other social media sites and the data being published was publicly available.Twitter suspends reporters for Doxing - a direct violation of long time rules. Twitter is bad- Twitter is stupid
Two business people disagreeing on the value of an asset. Happens all the time, welcome to capitalism.Let's remember the history behind this: Jan 2022
Elon Musk offered teen $5K to delete Twitter tracking his private jet
Musk reached out to 19-year-old college student Jack Sweeney to express concern about a Twitter account he runs called @ElonJet.nypost.com
He offers the teen 5,000 to stop - the teen countered with $50,000.00 .
Again, not sure why this thread has taken a turn towards pretending that business people making money is a bad thing, but again, this is kinda the basis of how a capitalist society works. Kinda weird to point it out like it means anything when someone in particular does it.From the link provided:
The pair exchanged several more messages, with Musk pressing for details on how Sweeney set up the bots and what he earned by operating them. Eventually, Musk offered $5,000 to delete the account.
The NY Post wasn't suspended. A post or two on a particularly story was "deemphasized" in the algorith (kept from trending). Anyone could link to it.
Elon Musk warned he faces EU sanctions after booting journalists off Twitter
The sudden, sweeping purge comes after controversy over Twitter suspending an account which tracked Elon Musk's private plane. The billionaire had previously indicated that he was so committed to free speech on Twitter, that even the jet bot would not be banned.news.sky.com
So much for his commitment to free speech.
Twitter suspends reporters for Doxing - a direct violation of long time rules.
What he said was that he would allow all legal speech.Did musk say he wanted absolute free-speech on Twitter? Like with death threats and pornographic memes included?
...I think not.
Sorry journalists reporting on a story is legal, unless you’re living in North Korea, Russia, or some other hell hole.Did musk say he wanted absolute free-speech on Twitter? Like with death threats and pornographic memes included?
...I think not.
Except we find out it was the FBI, Cia, (pick other intelligence agencies) peddling misinformation through them. Welcome to socialistic communism.Two business people disagreeing on the value of an asset. Happens all the time, welcome to capitalism.
The CIA, well known supporters of international communism.Except we find out it was the FBI, Cia, (pick other intelligence agencies) peddling misinformation through them. Welcome to socialistic communism.
I'm an IT guy, I know how to hook into some public APIs for flight trackers and have some experience with the Twitter APIs to make scheduled posts on a timed interval.
Is it really that easy to get a 5,000 dollar offer? lol
Quick, start giving me the list of celebs who really take privacy seriously!
Who cares anyway?
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