The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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Rroff said:
Loads of people are biased against Musk - unfortunately the last couple of years or so he seems intent on proving any and everyone who ever might have had a criticism of him, validly or otherwise, right.

There are loads of people who hate him out of hand, including a few posters in the threads here, out of jealousy or their ego being challenged by the fact he even exists though they'd never admit it.

Same with the guy from the cave rescue, though the media has warped a lot of people's perceptions of the story by getting the wrong end of the stick and never correcting the record, he acted out of his own bias against Musk rather than the actual situation and sadly got a rise out of Musk turning the whole situation into a sordid affair.
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By the same token quite a few on here think Elon can do no wrong.

The same people who tend to like trump, Putin, the B-word, 'LARPers' and are anti Vax etc.

You know things are getting bad when certain unsavoury posters enter a thread and drag it further down into the idiotic realms. We're due a couple more and then we'll hit full nutjob bingo in here then eventually the thread will get closed. Seemingly everyone except the mods and the extremists can see this pattern.
 
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Jono8 said:
Wait, so he is taking legal action against the guy too?

www.bbc.co.uk

Elon Musk taking legal action over Twitter account that tracks his private jet

Twitter's owner says an account tracking his private jet has put his son's safety at risk.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Dribbling as he tweets more like.

The plane tracking account tweeted nothing for days before said car and pedestrian incident... because it's a plane tracking account :p

Also worth putting a bet on that he fabricated the entire thing to help with the smokescreen as he banned the kid.
 
Anyway, I would say from the brief audio we hear in the video, the driver has just been accused of following the other car (presumably one Elons son was supposedly in)

So this would have to happen before the person allegedly stood on the "hood of the car"

Why didn't they post that as well? That's the sort of damning stuff you would post to make people realise how threatened this security team felt.

But also what does this have to do with tweeting the location of a jet?
 
The insane thing about this, is that if you are mental enough to stalk/follow someone, then I imagine you are going to make the effort to just look up the publicly available information in the myriad of other places you can get it. Banning it from Twitter is pointless.
 
A real stalker wouldn't be phased by it becoming 'private' information as they could find access to GPS systems data elsewhere either directly or indirectly through the numerous info brokers out there. The only loser here is the pleb and opensource investigators who would have to jump through the same hoops for no reason.
 
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Well balanced article on the Twitter Files here. tl;dr: both sides of the argument can score a point or two, but overall there's no scandalous revelation to be found.

The Twitter Files have been billed as a major exposé of left-wing Twitter censorship. Musk, whose $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was ostensibly motivated by grievances against such speech-policing—and, in a larger context, by his spats with progressive journalists—has presided over the release of selections from internal documents made available to three writers on Substack: Matt Taibbi, a left-wing gadfly reporter; Bari Weiss, a center-right former New York Times staff editor; and Michael Shellenberger, a maverick environmental advocate and two-time California gubernatorial candidate.

(There was a flurry of amusement when the Washington Post referred to Weiss and Taibbi as “conservative journalists,” then removed the label in an update without specifying what the update was. The label is certainly inaccurate, but it’s fair to say that all three writers belong to a political subculture oppositional to the progressive consensus.)

But do these “files”—screenshots of Slack messages and other documents showing how decisions were made to remove tweets, suspend accounts, or limit the visibility of some posts and users—show nefarious political suppression of free speech or legitimate and even necessary moderation?

Broadly, the reactions are divided into two camps: those who believe the revelations are a major scandal vindicating the worst conservative/populist accusations against “Big Tech,” and those who believe that the revelations are a “nothingburger” dressed up to look like a major scandal.

Let’s call them Team Scandal and Team Nothingburger.
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The Tesla truck is coming (one day). It could all be a genius plan to align himself with the inbred hillbillies, so they buy his trucks.
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Interesting, I mean that’s peak guerrilla marketing if true - does he really expect to recoup the 35billion he overpaid for twitter that way?
 
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