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

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dowie said:
See the CCTV comment made earlier. Again do you understand that larger accounts with greater reach are going to be a bit more sensitive to this?



I'm not sure what point you're making here, that you understand there is a risk isn't an argument against lowering that risk is it?

Like suppose roads didn't have speed limits, you could say, in response to a proposal to implement speed limits that surely people using roads understand the risks right?



If you like, at least for the moment, this could influence other platforms too. Though I guess twitter can be riskier to some extent in the way things can go viral.
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Not sure I agree with those analogies. Since there is always another source banning publicly available content on one source just means it pops up elsewhere

it seems Elon has triggered the Streisand effect as now the Elon Jet tracker is available on more sites than ever

Jack Sweeney's site https://grndcntrl.net/


Links to all Jack websites and socials https://grndcntrl.net/links/


ElonJet on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/elonmusksjet/


ElonJet on Facebook https://m.facebook.com/100080173478533/


ElonJet on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@elonjet


ElonJet on Discord https://discord.com/invite/pSJk5HG


https://mastodon.social/@JxckS


https://www.instagram.com/jxck.sweeney/


https://m.facebook.com/jxcksweeney

Where's Elon Musk's Plane?

Track Elon Musk's private jet in real-time.
www.wheresmusk.com www.wheresmusk.com

Did banning Elonjet Twitter make him more safe less safe, or the same?
 
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Sankari said:
But Musk appears to be banning journalists arbitrarily, which is a very different matter.
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Appears to be for posting links to elonjet tracker which gave live GPS tracking of his personal transport. Others gave mastondon links to the tracker. All journalists involved got a 7 day ban for doxxing.
 
Name said:
Appears to be for posting links to elonjet tracker which gave live GPS tracking of his personal transport. Others gave mastondon links to the tracker. All journalists involved got a 7 day ban for doxxing.
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Exactly how is it doxxing to publish information that by federal law is publicly available?

It's rather a large stretch to state that something that is a legal obligation to be public is somehow dodgy when it's made public, especially as unless Musk has some unhappy users with ground to air misslles who can get past airport security it's not a risk.

I mean it's his platform he can do what he wants, but he's changing the rules and doing uturns on his promises with such regularity now that I doubt he's going to have any of the top, second or third tier advertisers left soon, as he's showing he's completely unreliable when he says he'll do, or not do something, and that's on top of the little things like getting rid of the advertising booking team and content moderation teams.
 
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Appears to be for posting links to elonjet tracker which gave live GPS tracking of his personal transport. Others gave mastondon links to the tracker. All journalists involved got a 7 day ban for doxxing.
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LOL, wow. Sharing publicly available information is now considered doxxing by Elon Musk, the self-described free speech absolutist. What a time to be alive.
 
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Elon 'I Am Literally Making This Up As I Go Along' Musk asks people to vote on the outcome of something that never happened:


(None of the reporters he banned, had doxxed his exact location in real time).

I think it's slowly starting to dawn on him that running Twitter is a lot more complicated than it looks.
 
mattx4 said:
Not sure I agree with those analogies. Since there is always another source banning publicly available content on one source just means it pops up elsewhere

it seems Elon has triggered the Streisand effect as now the Elon Jet tracker is available on more sites than ever
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But those aren't Twitter entities, you already made that same point re: can't someone post on Instagram and I already answered it.
dowie said:
If you like, at least for the moment, this could influence other platforms too. Though I guess twitter can be riskier to some extent in the way things can go viral.
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I'll add that if something is bad and a company recognises it as bad then that others aren't (yet) tackling it isn't a reason not to act on it. I mean if people are trading some other bad stuff on social media companies, lets say "guns" and Twitter makes a special effort to crack down harder on the selling of guns on twitter it would seem like a ridiculous argument to criticise that on the basis that guns are still available elsewhere.

A personal website or mastodon page isn't going to have the same reach, likewise stuff doesn't go viral on instagram in the same way - sort form videos sort of do, picture posts are mostly for followers.

And this isn't specific to Elonjet either, this rule applies broadly and that's what was being discussed, you brought up Hunter Biden's laptop initially. Some other poster wanted to bang on repeatedly about Elon and his actions when I'd already commented that Elon was going about this is a cake-and-arse manner, it's not like he's going to be enforcing every future moderator action relating to this.

This is a broad rule that applies going forwards and so far the critiques seem to have been, Elon is an arse lets focus on and extrapolate everything from that, what about the Hunter Biden case where the rule doesn't apply and now well others are still allowing it so why bother?
 
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It is amusing seeing rich people who have surrounded themselves with sycophants for most of their lives put their head above the parapet and find out that not everything they say and do is actually great.
 
dowie said:
But those aren't Twitter entities, you already made that same point re: can't someone post on Instagram and I already answered it.
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I'm pretty certain the same people were arguing in the Andrew Tate thread that removing someone from the larger social media sites lessens their reach, but apparently now it's the opposite? Wish they'd make their minds up..!

Anyway, for whatever reason seems musk didn't like the results in the 1st one so he's got a new poll up (didn't realise 4 options was too many for a twitter poll)
 
He lost the first poll and is losing the second poll as well.

The irony is he's made the situation 1000x worse. The elonjet news will be on every major media outlet all day and will gain more followers in 1 day that it did in its whole existence.

God complex boy should step away from the internet for a few days.
 
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So publishing personal information such as a home address, schools of their children etc (already available in the public sphere) then that wouldn't be doxing?
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Fairly sure that isn't public information.

Either way the location of a jet is irrelevant to the location of a car/house that isn't anywhere near an airport which is the source of this entire argument.
 
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