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Twitter Account Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet Gets Shadow Banned

• clouddrover 4y ago
  > Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. So the new owner of Twitter, a petty, thin-skinned, hypocrite, uses the platform to grubbily serve his own purposes instead of the lofty free speech ideals he espouses? No way. > “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk,” the billionaire tweeted at the time. That "commitment" sure didn't last.
• WheelsAtLarge 4y ago
  I'm not sure what bothers me more the shadow banning or the naiveness of people that thought Musk was going to let the account continue to post his Jet's movements to the whole world. If you were in the same situation as Musk, would you let it continue?
  • tjpnz 4y ago
    If Musk ate his own cooking he would allow it to continue.
  • jrochkind1 4y ago
    I guess people naively thought he'd have to be consistent with his "free speech" position, rather than think he could get away with "free speech for speech that doesn't bother the boss" while insisting it was really free-er not just a different boss.
  • rsynnott 4y ago
    I mean, I'm personally not at all surprised, but it might be disconcerting to people who actually buy Musk's schtick.